Description: The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years.
Review Quotes: Sports through the Lens is elegant in its simplicity of concept: Have various sports scholars each select a compelling sports photograph--iconic or obscure, from any sport, their choice--and write a short essay about its origin and impact. The result is a wonderful collection that is informative, accessible to the general reader, and engagingly written. Here is that rare anthology that adds up to more than the sum of its parts.--Gerald Early, Washington University in St. Louis, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Boxing