100 Greatest Sports Photos of all time

[DivineBovine]

Not sure how they "rank" them, but plenty of iconic images here.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/specials/100greatestphotos/?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t11_a0

[OleMissCub]

Very surprised that the Cobb photo isn't on there. It's pretty much always listed as one of the greatest baseball pics.

 

http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2002/133/210_1021397672.jpg

[imb]

http://i.imgur.com/IjpdQ.jpg

 

enhance

 

http://i.imgur.com/NnuNN.jpg

 

enhance

 

http://i.imgur.com/wHkWe.jpg

 

ENHANCE

 

http://i.imgur.com/cDULN.jpg

[USSoccer]

hahahahahahaha

[Brian]

http://www.asparkstarts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/mj.jpg

 

I would include this... but I don't think there were any trophy celebration pics, so maybe it is action shots only?

[OleMissCub]

:good:

 

epic IMB!, simply epic

[rawaction]

They are ranked, and Ali standing over Liston should be much higher, maybe even #1.

[OleMissCub]

They are ranked, and Ali standing over Liston should be much higher, maybe even #1.

 

No kidding. Mays catch being 99 and Ali being 93 instantly discredits that list. A photo of a fish is 60 spots higher than those? Really?

[Cubswin11]

The Gordon Heyward pic at 17 seems dumb, he didn't even make that shot.

[javy knows my name]

They are ranked, and Ali standing over Liston should be much higher, maybe even #1.

 

No kidding. Mays catch being 99 and Ali being 93 instantly discredits that list. A photo of a fish is 60 spots higher than those? Really?

 

WTF is up with that fish

[DivineBovine]

That Mays shot is amazing. Not just from historic perspective, but from a photographic perspective. Underrated, clearly.

[Magnetic Curses]

Gordon Heyward over Tommie Smith and John Carlos, lol

[mul21]

Yeah, this list isn't very good.

[Guest]

They are ranked, and Ali standing over Liston should be much higher, maybe even #1.

That was the very first pic that came to mind before looking at the list.

[jersey cubs fan]

Very surprised that the Cobb photo isn't on there. It's pretty much always listed as one of the greatest baseball pics.

 

http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2002/133/210_1021397672.jpg

 

By whom? I have no recollection of ever seeing that picture and there is nothing interesting about it.

[pitchcs]

Is #33 Ryan Theriot?

 

Cool pics, but awful list. A decent amount I'd never seen before though.

[OleMissCub]

Very surprised that the Cobb photo isn't on there. It's pretty much always listed as one of the greatest baseball pics.

 

http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2002/133/210_1021397672.jpg

 

By whom? I have no recollection of ever seeing that picture and there is nothing interesting about it.

 

Not sure if trolling...but I'll play.

 

here is a random list that has it #1

 

http://listverse.com/2012/08/30/top-10-10-greatest-photographs-in-baseball-history/

 

This article calls the photographer Charles Conlon the greatest baseball photographer of all time and says that the Cobb photo is his most famous work.

 

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/archive-8/

 

Here is another article about him that has the Cobb photo under the headline

 

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Charles-Conlon-The-Unheralded-Baseball-Photographer.html

 

SI's take on it:

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1190615/index.htm

 

Conlon produced 30,000 pictures, including some of the game's most iconic images. (His most famous is a '10 shot of Ty Cobb barreling into third.)

 

http://www.life123.com/sports/baseball/baseball-facts/charles-conlon-world-famous-spots-photog.shtml

 

It is still considered by many to be the best baseball action shot ever taken.

 

Another article saying "this snapshot is almost universally recognized as the greatest photograph in the history of baseball"

 

http://www.thewannabesportsguy.com/2010/07/conlon-and-cobb-a-legend-in-pictures/

 

Conlon's wiki page has an entire section on the photo and calls it his most famous shot.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Conlon

 

Another

 

http://www.photography-art-cafe.com/famous-sports-photographers.html

 

Conlon has made my list of famous sports photographers in no small part because of one great shot he took. It's an action shot of Ty Cob sliding into 3rd base and taking out the legs of Jimmy Austin. Dirt flies in the air and limbs are all over the place. It's an exciting, dynamic, atmospheric and just brilliant moment.

 

Another website calling it the "greatest baseball action shot ever taken"

 

http://www.legendaryauctions.com/LotDetail.aspx?inventoryid=27888

 

Another...

 

http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/19/the-golden-age-of-baseball-photographs-by-charles-m-conlon/#1

 

Conlon took some of the most iconic shots in baseball history. An unforgettable close-up of Babe Ruth, a young DiMaggio taking a swing, and Ty Cobb sliding into third base — his teeth-clenched, dirt flying in the air

 

http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2012/07/26/the-bookshelf-podcast-neal-mccabe/

 

One of the early pioneers whose work still brings smiles to fans to this day was Charles M. Conlon, who gave us one of the most famous baseball still of all time: Ty Cobb sliding into third base.

 

Nothing interesting about it? That was taken in freaking 1910...the dirt flying at the camera...Cobb gritting his teeth like a madman and the veins popping out of his neck. That's a tremendous action shot for the time period.

 

And if you've never seen it before then you obviously don't look at many baseball history books because it's all over the place. It seems to be the go-to photograph for deadball era baseball. It comes up quite often on baseball art websites, etc.

 

 

http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_descentOfMan.jpg

http://www.baseballpilgrimages.com/art/framedty.jpg

http://www.brucebobick.com/images/figures/image11.jpg

http://www.multiculturalart.com/images/artwork/dane/baseball/TyCobb.jpg

http://artists.robertgenn.com/pal/jerry_kalback/jerry-kalback-art-tycobb_big.jpg

http://www.agora-gallery.com/Invitation/2012/newsletter/aug/images/TyCobbSliding-Conlon.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/33/55144219_98e9d617de.jpg

http://adamport.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cobb.med_.jpg

 

[jersey cubs fan]

Nothing interesting about it? That was taken in freaking 1910...the dirt flying at the camera...Cobb gritting his teeth like a madman and the veins popping out of his neck. That's a tremendous action shot for the time period.

 

And if you've never seen it before then you obviously don't look at many baseball history books because it's all over the place. It seems to be the go-to photograph for deadball era baseball. It comes up quite often on baseball art websites, etc.

 

Leave it to baseball fetishists to overemphasize the meaninglessness of a picture. It shows us nothing. A good sports photo shows us something that matters. Not a guy sliding into third.

[Sammy Sofa]

Gentlemen, gentlemen, please...you're both equally tedious right now.

[OleMissCub]

Leave it to baseball fetishists to overemphasize the meaninglessness of a picture. It shows us nothing. A good sports photo shows us something that matters. Not a guy sliding into third.

 

It shows us the fierceness of one of the greatest and controversial figures in baseball history in all his famed tenacity.

 

Nevertheless, you lose. It's an extremely famous baseball photograph and is widely considered thus.

[jersey cubs fan]

It shows us the fierceness of one of the greatest and controversial figures in baseball history in all his famed tenacity.

 

It shows him on his hands and knees biting his lip.

[OleMissCub]

Gentlemen, gentlemen, please...you're both equally tedious right now.

 

I'll gladly admit to that.

 

However, I've no doubt a well-read nerd and baseball fan like yourself is aware of that photograph's existence. No?

[jersey cubs fan]

Gentlemen, gentlemen, please...you're both equally tedious right now.

 

I'll gladly admit to that.

 

However, I've no doubt a well-read nerd and baseball fan like yourself is aware of that photograph's existence. No?

 

looking at picture books doesn't make one well read

[OleMissCub]

It shows us the fierceness of one of the greatest and controversial figures in baseball history in all his famed tenacity.

 

It shows him on his hands and knees biting his lip.

 

Is this one better?

 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5FDSd2LoYm4/TgvJFNhEqZI/AAAAAAAAFog/z1sb-LNJH14/s1600/cobb.gif

 

Or...

 

http://i60.servimg.com/u/f60/12/40/14/96/cobbsl10.jpg

[OleMissCub]

Gentlemen, gentlemen, please...you're both equally tedious right now.

 

I'll gladly admit to that.

 

However, I've no doubt a well-read nerd and baseball fan like yourself is aware of that photograph's existence. No?

 

looking at picture books doesn't make one well read

 

Well considering that the photograph is in damn near every baseball book in existence, being well-read helps.