Capturing Camaraderie in a Minor League Baseball Team – The New York Times

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Capturing Camaraderie in a Minor League Baseball Team

Fred Conrad, a former staff photographer for The New York Times, has been documenting the Rockland Boulders baseball team’s friendship with each other and love for their sport.

via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/capturing-camaraderie-in-a-new-york-baseball-team/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

In a bygone era, sports photographers didn’t have the benefit of Telephoto lenses, digital cameras or wireless transmission. But their technological limitations had under-appreciated benefits.

“Photographers had to get really close to the ballplayers,” said Fred Conrad, a former staff photographer for The New York Times. “So there’s this wonderfully personal and intimate feeling from the photographs.”