Before the Game - Softcover

Scott Mlyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878336052 ISBN 13: 9780878336050

Publisher: Taylor Pub, 1988

Photographs show baseball players during interviews, signing autographs, playing practical jokes, warming up, and relaxing in the clubhouse

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Review:

The photos are among the finest I've ever seen in a sports book. I can't say enough about the photos - they're terrific. Super stuff. - Barry Palmer, The Union Leader, Manchester, NH, October 28, 1988

Baseball has been the subject of many coffee-table books. This year's winner is Before the Game... - Rod Beaton, USA Today, May 19, 1988

An enticing look at pre-game rituals. Evokes the magical pull of baseball for its myriad fans. - Reference Book Bulletin

Many of these photos are wonderful, some of them are superb. Thanks to Mlyn and his well-traveled camera, we are treated to an inside look at America's favorite pastime. - Book Break, Chicago TV, November 1, 1988

This book of photographs by Scott Mlyn captures the game's special charm and allure and sugegsts why baseball is the subject of so much literary attention. - Business week, June 20, 1988

A lovely collection of pictures. ... Photographer Mlyn finds those baseball moments that contain essences. _ Daniel Okrent, USA Today July 7, 1988

A unique atmosphere captured by Scott Mlyn and Louis Rubin. - The New York Times, May 22, 1988

From Publishers Weekly:

Freelance photographer Mlyn's lackluster black-and-white baseball snapshots do not portray energized close plays, home runs or managers' arguments with umpires but, instead, document pre-game atmospherewhen the players are warming up and kidding around and groundskeepers are hard at work. His subjects include empty stadiums, batting practices, locker-room card games, early-bird autograph-seekers and a rare view of the St. Louis Cardinals in Sunday prayer. Descriptions of pre-game rituals by Rubin, an English professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and president of Algonquin Books, ramble along such well-worn paths as the Steinbrenner/Martin hirings and firings, how to throw a screwball, etc., but baseball fans will want to take a look anyway.
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