What would your fantasy press photo find be?????

[billyb]

You are at a flea market thumbing through some old newspapers and falling out is a large envelope. Inside, there it is, a press photo, of Ruth or Cobb or Gehrig, or whomever, and it is your fantasy find.
Because many may select the same photo, the back is stamped by your favorite photographer.
Who would adorn your fantasy press photo, and what photographer captured that photo?

I would love to find a press photo of Ruth, in his first game with Boston, On the mound, in pitching motion. Photo taken by Louis VanOeyen. VanOeyen because he was the first official MLB photographer for the American League, and his photos seem to be more rare, plus, the tone he uses, to me, has that early vintage appeal.

[GKreindler]

Cool thread idea, Billy!

Narrowing it down to one would be REALLY hard.

I think I might go with a shot of Christy Mathewson in pitching motion, during the fifth game of the 1905 World Series. Ideally, the shot would have been taken from directly behind home plate, much like those World Series first pitch shots from the 1950s. So, you'd have Christy facing whomever on the Athletics, complete with a panoramic view of the Polo Grounds right behind him.

Photographer-wise, I can't really think of anyone specifically who would have been there to take such a shot, aside from Conlon. Though, that sort of thing wasn't necessarily in his wheelhouse anyways (or at least from what we know about surviving action shots that he took). I would just want the photograph to be clean and clear. And of course, enough for me to base a painting off of.

Graig

[Kawika]

Of all the terrific baseball photos ever taken, this shot from dugout level of Earle Combs at the plate would be my Holy Grail. I'd pay Mr Kreindler sick money to paint it. The caption states that Combs is hitting a single on Sept 9, 1928. The photographer is unknown to me. The Yanks swept a doubleheader from the A's that day. The catcher would have been Mickey Cochrane, the umpire Bill McGowan. Three Hall of Famers, such a deal.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Kawika

Of all the terrific baseball photos ever taken, this shot from dugout level of Earle Combs at the plate would be my Holy Grail. I'd pay Mr Kreindler sick money to paint it. The caption states that Combs is hitting a single on Sept 9, 1928. The photographer is unknown to me. The Yanks swept a doubleheader from the A's that day. The catcher would have been Mickey Cochrane, the umpire Bill McGowan. Three Hall of Famers, such a deal.

A beauty of an action shot. Who was coaching 3rd those days for the Yankees? Was it Artie Fletcher? Or did Huggins do that back then?

[GKreindler]

I'm pretty sure that by '28, it was Fletcher, Mark.

Kawika, agreed. Straight up.

[Kawika]

Yanks had two coaches in 1928: Art Fletcher, 5'10", and Charley O'Leary, 5'7". Looks like the bigger man to me. Huggins was 5'6", by the way. By the sounds of it, Fletcher was a real firecracker.

[JoeyF1981]

Originally Posted by billyb

You are at a flea market thumbing through some old newspapers and falling out is a large envelope. Inside, there it is, a press photo, of Ruth or Cobb or Gehrig, or whomever, and it is your fantasy find.
Because many may select the same photo, the back is stamped by your favorite photographer.
Who would adorn your fantasy press photo, and what photographer captured that photo?

I would love to find a press photo of Ruth, in his first game with Boston, On the mound, in pitching motion. Photo taken by Louis VanOeyen. VanOeyen because he was the first official MLB photographer for the American League, and his photos seem to be more rare, plus, the tone he uses, to me, has that early vintage appeal.

+1....I was just reading about VanOeyen and looking at some of his photography. I agree his ohotos have the some of the nicest eye appeal. A first year ruth photo by him would be my ideal piece to own