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Originally Posted by Merkle923

I only had a fraction of his collection - might have been 300 or 400 images/prints. But from what I saw, he shot in black and white until about 1960 and almost exclusively in color thereafter. So since the McCarthy postcards are almost only in B&W, the color images we have are almost always simply prints or proofs.

While 90% of his images are at Tiger Stadium, he also appears to have done a spring training trip nearly every year and often made short trips to Cleveland, Chicago, and Milwaukee. He was probably as prolific as George Brace but never really explored anything commercially beyond making postcards for players. Again and again a file of a particular player would show six or seven images of them, notes about how many they wanted - and a picture of them with him.

The Baseball Hall of Fame photography archive - which is below ground, refrigerated, and has everything from the original Magic Lantern Slides showing Game Action from the 1911 World Series, to the giant imperial team cabinet photos of the 1880's, to stuff shot by fans - has a large McCarthy collection.

Below, one that took me a long time to figure out: Manny Sanguillen, in a Pirates uniform, at County Stadium in Milwaukee, by J.D. McCarthy. Sanguillen had no business being there and neither did McCarthy. Turns out there was a Pirates-Brewers exhibition game there in the mid-70s.

McCarthy also did extensive photography of coaches, trainers, traveling secretaries, broadcasters - the one here is a 1969 Florida image of Joe Deer, who was the assistant trainer of the World Champion Mets.

Thank you for the explanation! Once again very informative. And, bonus, thanks for the Sanguillen! One of my favorites from the 70s. I was fortunate enough to go to the final home series(vs. Cubs) at Three Rivers Stadium and to an alumni dinner they had set up outside stadium. I sat at a table with Nelson Briles and listened to stories of the great early 70s teams and he had all of us laughing at the Manny Sanguillen stories. Especially the trips to the mound where not everyone was speaking the same language. Again thanks for the fast reply and info regarding one of the greatest sports photographers of the 60s and 70s.