The golden age of a baseball was one that was controlled by the leagues… when players’ rights were low and almost unestablished. Today’s game may not be that different but a document of those times is an important one not only for the sport of baseball itself, but as a part of the American landscape.

Charles M. Conlon photographed the game from 1904 – 1942. More than 205 of those photographs have now been collected in the book, Baseball’s Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon, out now on the Abrams imprint. The photographs were sourced from the archives of the The Sporting News and transferred from negatives. A beautiful addition for anyone who loves the game. Available from Amazon.

Photography: Charles M. Conlon/Abrams

Select looks inside Baseball’s Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon after the click.

@10engines turns us onto this trailer for the forthcoming surf flick, “Year Zero.”

Manchester’s Cube Gallery is hosting “Post Match,” an exhibition that mixes smoking and footie (soccer to the N.A.’s). Using cigarette packs to fold origami style jerseys, “Post Match” is an unique concept in art, sport, and smoke. Artists, Leo Fitzmaurice, developed the idea after he “noticed a wet cigarette packet on the ground in the shape of a football shirt and ten years later he is still making them and has a vast collection of over 800 hand made shirts from around the world.” Green Soccer Journal has more…

More looks after the click.

We’re Arsenal fans here, so putting up this Nike video (even with two our best players due to leave) was a prerequisite. Now we can only hope that we can look as good over a season as we do in a three minute video.

Tailored by Umbro, the 2011/2012 Athletic Club Bilbao kit celebrates the teams 100th season. Inspired by the history of the Basque team, the shirt features Athletic Club’s red and white stripes in a distinct Herringbone print.

More looks after the jump.

Stephen Fry’s beloved Norwich City Canaries will enter the Premier League dressed in Italian “created” kits from Errea. It’s traditional fare for the club, yellow for home and green for away, but was launched via this charming promotional video. We’re hoping Fry, who is also a club director, had a hand in the idea.

“Commemorating the New York city blackout of July 1977, Umbro have created a special edition range of products for the New York Cosmos.”

Pink, Juventus’ original home color before the switch to black and white stripe, returns for the Turin club’s away matches in 2011/2012. Juventus has hit or miss success with their pink strips – the BBC calling a mid-90s version one of “the worst football kits of all time.” The contemporary style features a bold black star, and is delightfully aggressive in overall aesthetic. Made, like all new Nike football shirts, of 100% recycled polyester.

More looks at the new pink Juventus shirt after the jump.

Starting off on an unrelated tangent here: We absolutely despise the band namesake of Kaizer Chiefs. And now, back to the story at hand. We assume you’ve recovered from the Camo monstrosity we showed you earlier. Now here’s another kit that seems to take from a current menswear trend in contrast sleeves. And in sharp contrast (excuse the pun) to the camo kit from before, we quite like this one.

The camouflage trend officially died on July 4, 2011.

No, Mark McNairy hasn’t gone overboard with an audacious assault on traditional English footwear.*

Instead, Everton FC has chosen to dress the club’s American goalkeeper – Tim Howard – in this number for the 2011/2012 home stand. He certainly won’t blend into the teams bright blue strip, nor is he likely to match anyone in the opposing side. Everton has posted the original brief for the new home kit here. Note that there is no mention of or directive given for the goalies garb. Let this be a lesson to all sporting franchises – a #fail only equaled by Minnesotans agreeing that “Wild” is a decent name for a hockey team.

*Only joking McNairy. We love you.

View details of Everton’s camo goalkeeper shirt after the jump.