DATE: 1947 ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Original - Printed from the original negative in the time period in which it was shot TEAM: Brooklyn Dodgers SUBJECTS: Eddie Stanky, Unidentified PHOTOGRAPHER: Barney Stein APPROXIMATE SIZE: 6-1/2"x8-1/2" NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is one of a large accumulation of vintage sports photographs, slides and negatives that we will be listing over the coming months. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to minor corner and edge wear, but see scans for further details including condition. We do not deal in stock images or modern reprints, and all scans shown are of the actual vintage photograph, slide or negative being sold. If you have any questions about a particular piece, please ask before the auction ends. BIO: Edward Raymond Stanky (The Brat or Muggsy) was born in 1915 in Philadelphia, PA and died in 1999 in Fairhope, AL. He played major league baseball from 1943 to 1953 as infielder for the Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Braves, New York Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals, appeared in the 1947, 1948 and 1951 World Series, and was selected 3 times as an All-Star. His Giants manager Leo Durocher once summed up Stanky's talents: "He can't hit, can't run, can't field. He's no nice guy... all the little SOB can do is win." Barney Stein was born in 1908 and died in 1993. Barney Stein's photographic career began with the Brooklyn Times Union in 1929 and continued for over 50 years in which he developed into an award-winning photojournalist covering sports, celebrities, royalty and the major events of the day. A chance meeting and subsequent photographic session with Dearie McKeever Mulvey (daughter of one of the Dodgers' owners) led to Barney's hiring as Official Brooklyn Dodgers Photographer in the Spring of 1937. Thus began a lifelong relationship with the family, the team and baseball. His photographs taken at spring training and during the season captured the joys, disappointments, heart-wrenching losses and jubilant victories of the unpredictable Brooklyn "Bums". While he had an impish sense of humor and an uncanny ability to convince the great and famous to pose in dramatic and amusing ways, he was also a master of the "moment in time". One second before and one second after the action were not good enough for Barney. He was never one to hesitate and had an instinctive feeling for when to snap the shutter. First prize in the New York Press Photographers' Sports Class and the prestigious Izzy Kaplan Memorial Trophy were awarded to Barney for his famous shot of Dodgers' pitcher Ralph Branca, sobbing on the clubhouse steps of the Polo Grounds in 1951. He had pitched that never-to-be-forgotten homerun ball to the New York Giants' outfielder Bobby Thomson in the ninth inning of the seventh and final game of the National League pennant playoffs. Besides sports, Barney Stein photographed eight sitting presidents, crowned heads of Europe and celebrities from the world over. SKU: XP12523
Item: XP12523
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