Albersheim's 2015 June Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/7/2015
Arthur Rickerby was an award-winning photographer who joined LIFE's staff in 1960, after years of success shooting for Sports Illustrated, United Press International, and other major publications and news agencies. In addition to his masterful sports photography (including Don Larsen pitching a perfect game in the 1956 World Series -- one of the most famous baseball photos of all-time), Rickerby covered "hard news" and historic events for decades. He photographed John and Jackie Kennedy just hours before the president was assassinated in Dallas in 1963; he was aboard the USS Missouri during the Japanese surrender in WWII; he covered the Boston Strangler, Nikita Khrushchev, Jimmy Hoffa, the early years of the United Nations, and on and on and on. He died in Connecticut in 1972. He was 51.
We offer an original 11x14 photograph taken by Rickerby with his stamp on the verso. A killer shot showing Maris surrounded by sportswriters in 1961 smoking a cigarette. You can see the affects of the chase of Babe Ruth’s home run record was really wearing him down. Wow!!!!