Taken at spring training in Vero Beach, Florida DATE: 1949 ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Original - Printed from the original negative in the time period in which it was shot TEAM: Brooklyn Dodgers SUBJECTS: Eddie Stanky, Burt Shotton, Milt Stock, Jake Pitler PHOTOGRAPHER: Barney Stein APPROXIMATE SIZE: 8-1/2"x6-1/2" NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is one of a number of photos to be offered which hail from the personal collection of All-Star player and manager Eddie Stanky. 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." Burton Edwin Shotton (Barney) was born in 1884 in Brownhelm, OH and died in 1962 in Lake Wales, FL. He played major league baseball from 1909 to 1923 as outfielder for the St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators and the St. Louis Cardinals. Almost all of his major league playing career was spent in St. Louis, either with the Browns or with the Cardinals. His tendency to draw walks was of great value in the dead-ball era when hits were hard to come by. He went on to manage the Philadelphia Phillies (1928-33), Cincinnati Reds (1934), and the Brooklyn Dodgers (1947-50). As a manager, Shotton is best remembered for wearing street clothes in the dugout rather than a uniform. In 1947, he replaced Leo Durocher in Brooklyn after Commissioner Happy Chandler suspended Durocher for the entire season for "conduct detrimental to baseball" -- notably, Leo's association with gamblers. Shotton was known for playing hunches and taking some surprising tactical risks (for example, when he had Al Gionfriddo steal second in Game Four of the World Series, down 2-1 in the ninth inning). New York Daily News sportswriter Dick Young gave him the sardonic nickname "Kindly Old Burt Shotton" (reduced to the acronym KOBS). Milton Joseph Stock was born in Chicago, IL and died in 1977 in Fairhope, AL. He played major league baseball from 1913 to 1926 as infielder for the New York Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Brooklyn Robins. After his playing career ended, he remained in the game as a minor league manager and executive. From 1944 through 1952, Stock coached in the National League for the Chicago Cubs (1944-48), Dodgers (1949-50) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1951-52). Stock was the father in law of Eddie Stanky, the longtime MLB second baseman and manager, who played under Stock in the Cub farm system. Jacob Albert Pitler was born in New York, NY and died in 1968 in Binghamton, NY. He played major league baseball from 1917 to 1918 as 2nd baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Pitler usually served as Brooklyn's first-base coach and worked under Leo Durocher, Burt Shotton, Chuck Dressen and Walter Alston. Pitler appears in Roger Kahn's memoir The Boys of Summer as a somewhat obsequious aide to Dressen. But with his minor league managing background, he was also hailed as a fatherly figure to Dodger rookies. He was cited for that role in poet Marianne Moore's paean to the 1955 champions, Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese. After retiring as a coach, Pitler continued his association with the Dodgers (by now based in Los Angeles) as a scout. He died in Binghamton, New York, in 1968 at the age of 73. In 1991 he was inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 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: XP12938
Item: XP12938
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