I think you've inadvertently switched the Georges. George BURKE began photographing major leaguers as they passed through Chicago in the early Thirties. He employed a young George BRACE as an assistant. Brace became Burke's partner some time in the late Forties and took over the business in the early Fifties. It was BRACE, not BURKE, who loaned his negatives to Jim Rowe (BURKE was deceased by then), and I believe there was something of a scandal as Mr. Brace didn't get his negatives back.
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