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Yes, George Brace shot Kerry Dineen with the Phillies, either on September 6 or 7, 1978, at Wrigley Field. Up until last year you could have ordered a Dineen/Phillies 5" x 7" print from Argenta Images for $10. It might have been a mediocre pose or a scratched up negative, but it would be there.

To give an idea of the breadth of the Brace collection, we know he started as an assistant to the legendary George Burke in 1929, switched almost overnight from black and white to color in 1959, retired in 1994, and died in 2002. I long ago printed out the inventory of images sold first by his daughter and later Argenta, and have reproduced Dineen's page below. Please also note that there is no indicator of the volume of different poses per player per team, only records of the player's name and with which team he was depicted.

The part of the list shown below - Dineen is at about the midpoint of the right-hand row - is page 9 of 39. Each full page lists about 270 guys (the 39th page has only about 40 names). We are thus talking about one photographer shooting 10,300 different players and other uniformed personnel. Unless somebody wants to take the time to count the number of teams listed for each player, there's no way to even guess how many total distinct player/team matches there are. Even then, there'd be no indication of how many times Brace shot each player with a given team. The entry for Tommy Davis lists eleven teams, but he spent seven full years with the Dodgers and nearly four with the Orioles, and if Brace only shot him once a year and only three poses per shoot, that's at least 57 images just of Tommy Davis.

There was also a separate index of group shots. I no longer have a copy, but I'm confident it exceeded another 750 groups.

So that this post isn't an entirely academic exercise, if you'd like to decode this page, the team ID's are in league and chronological order: A1 Boston AL, A2 Chicago AL, A3 Cleveland, A4 Detroit, A5 New York AL, A6 Philadelphia AL, A7 St.Louis AL, A8 Washington (Original or Expansion), A9 Baltimore, A10 Kansas City A's, A11 Los Angeles AL, A22 Minnesota, A23 California, A24 Oakland, A25 Seattle Pilots, A26 Kansas City Royals, A27 Milwaukee Brewers, A28 Texas, A29 Toronto, A30 Seattle; N1 Boston NL, N2 Brooklyn, N3 Chicago NL, N4 Cincinnati, N5 New York Giants, N6 Philadelphia NL, N7 Pittsburgh, N8 St.Louis NL, N18 Milwaukee Braves, N25 Los Angeles NL, N26 San Francisco, N27 Houston (Colts or Astros), N28 New York Mets, N29 Atlanta, N30 Montreal, N31 San Diego, N32 Florida.