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Circa 1938 Film Negative of Lefty Grove's Pitching Grip by George Burke - The Shot Even Charles Conlon Couldn't Get!
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;">One-of-a-kind film negative picturing Lefty Grove’s pitching gripproduced by renowned Chicago baseball photographer George Burke. The photo madefrom this negative is featured on page 36 of <em>The Game That Was</em> by Richard Cahan and Mark Jacob (Contemporary Books, Illinois, 1996), which is a compilationof Burke’s finest baseball photos. In their commentary for this image, theauthors explain its rarity by referencing a statement made by CharlesConlon in <em>The Sporting News </em>in 1937:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;"><em>In photographing ballplayers, you run into a lot of difficulties, mainly because they are sosuperstitious. Lefty Grove still is one of the most persistent believersin that sort of thing. If you don't believe me, try to get him to pose hispitching hand holding the ball. Nobody has ever got that picture, and I guessnobody ever will. Lefty thinks this picture would reveal the secret of hisskill.</em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;">Conlon was known for hisrelationships with McGraw, Mathewson, and Wagner, but, as this negative shows,George Burke had some strong relationships as well. Burke and Grove were closehunting buddies, and it was that friendship that allowed Burke to take the onlyknown image of Grove’s pitching grip. The negative, which was most likely takenbetween the years 1937 and 1939, measures 4x5” and is in Excellent to Mintcondition. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></p>
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