Suzy Allman Photography

Sports Stories: A Year in the Life

"The nation's biggest city, with more than 7 million potential fans in its five boroughs alone, throbs 24 hours a day, and, with apologies to Reggie, the straw that stirs the melting pot, all day and every day, is sports." - Bob Hille, "The Sporting News"

The pictures in this gallery are a small outtake from a personal project documenting one year in the life of New York City sports. Taken together, the best pictures from a single year of professional, amateur, organized team and individual sports will complete a picture of the sporting life of New York City that is not timeless, but inseparable from this time and place.

The Bear Stearns Squash Tournament is played under the gilded chandeliers of Vanderbilt Hall, in Grand Central Terminal, in New York City.
   
  
Female boxers compete in the Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. The Tournament runs over four months; over fifty amateur boxers compete.
     
  
A fan leaves Shea Stadium after an early-season game is rained out.
   
Arm wrestlers at the Big Apple Grapple, held on the deck of the Intrepid Air and Space Museum, square off for the finale.
   
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
The ocean yacht "Pirates of the Carribbean: The Black Pearl" races a speedboat out of New York Harbor at the start of the seventh leg of the Volvo Round-the-World Ocean Race.