Through a Blue Lens by Dennis D'Agostino

Author:Dennis D'Agostino
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2007-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

When snow fell on Bear Mountain, Barney cooked up a plan to pose several Dodgers on skis, which he undertook without manager Durocher’s knowledge lest he find his players hitting the slopes at 6:00 AM. One of the surviving shots shows 6’6” first baseman Howie Schultz negotiating the hillside with ski instructor Hans Strand. “High Howie” was one of three Dodgers who also played in the NBA, along with Chuck Connors and, in 2006, pitcher Mark Hendrickson.

BARNEY STEIN: “The players put on their skis and I begged them, please, pretty please, not to get any strawberries [bruises], then Leo would really get mad at me. The players did very well and I got my photographs. The players got their land legs together, I thanked the ski master and slunk away to my underground darkroom to develop my negatives [and] dry and caption them to be sent to the various papers and syndicates by bus for the next day’s publication and hope, fervently, that Leo wouldn’t give me the calling down I deserved!

“What happened that same afternoon after my ‘shooting’ the players on skis was that the newsreel cameramen came up to ask Leo for the same idea I had. Leo replied angrily, ‘No way, fellas. No way will I subject my players to get hurt….Out! Out! Case closed!’ When the papers appeared the following day with my photographs, I made myself very scarce to Leo. Apparently, he liked my photographs and never reproached me. Whew!”

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