Hobby Reference Books

[Writehooks]

Adam Warshaw's "America's Great Boxing Cards" is THE definitive reference work on collectible cardboard from the sweet science. Paul Muchinsky's "Boxing Pinback Buttons" is another must-have, as is R.A. Hartley's "History and Bibliography of Boxing Books."

[ethicsprof]

my photography favs sitting proudly on the bookshelf beside me:
Fogel,Oser, Yee A Portrait of Baseball Photography;
The Big Show: Charles Conlon's Golden Age Baseball Photographs;
Baseball's Golden Age, The Photographs of Charles Conlon;
Through a Blue Lens (on Stein)
Ozzie Sweet: The Boys of Spring; Legends of the Field
The Game that Was (on Brace)
Old Timers by Jacobellis et al
Classic Baseball, Iooss
and the Taschen tome: Neil Leifer.

all the best,
barry