Brace learned photography from George Burke, and the two worked together for many years. I don’t believe Burke was active as a baseball photographer when the Byrne photograph was taken, which raises the possibility that this is a copy photograph. Brace’s archive, which he told me consisted of over 1 million negatives, was filled with copy negatives. The stamp tells you that Brace printed the image.
Interesting tidbit about Brace: he knew George Wright.
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