As you travel on Highway 280W in southwest Georgia, you may catch a glimpse of a baseball field just outside of Plains. If you turn back the clock to one of the many early evenings between 1976 and 1980, you might notice a softball game underway. It wasn’t your typical high school roster of players […]
Do you know where you were 45 years ago? OK, here’s a hint…it was the Fourth of July. And it was 1976. America’s Bicentennial. Democratic candidate for president Jimmy Carter speaks at Westville, Ga. on the American Bicentennial.©Ken Hawkins for TIME Magazine I was on the presidential campaign trail with Jimmy Carter. We were in […]
As a photojournalist shooting a baseball game, I’d never once considered that I could be at great peril…but I’d never photographed a game from this position…from on the mound and behind the pitcher. I stood over the pitcher’s shoulder during his windup watching the batter – his forearms tensed and his gaze narrowly focused on the […]