The Polaroid may have been a big deal to the person who took it, especially if he's not someone who is in a position to run into someone like George Steinbrenner every day.
As a Mets season ticket holder, I went to many games in '12 (unfortunately, the Santana no-hitter was not one of them
). One of my passions is walking around Citi Field during games and taking pictures from all sorts of angles. I'm partial to this photo I took of Ike Davis about to tag home plate after hitting a walk-off home run to win the game for the Mets in their final meeting against Houston...
(Photo taken August 26, 2012. © Gary Dunaier. Link to upload on Flickr.com: here.)
As it happened, I caught Davis in midair as he leaped and did a celebratory twirl in front of his teammates as he tagged home plate. Now, there are "better" shots of Davis' twirl, from professional photographers with better equipment and better access, for instance:
(Photo source: here)
But I think my photo is pretty darn special because I took it. And just the same way, whoever originally took the Steinbrenner shot must have been pleased with his "get," at least at the time.