The Catch, The Spill, and The Camera
Two of the greatest baseball photos in history are forever-linked by a camera. Behold, the Hulcher.
Baseball is boring to photograph — until it’s not.
New York Daily News photographer Frank Hurley was positioned behind home plate for Game One of the 1954 World Series. It was Hurley’s first time shooting with a Hulcher, a 70mm film camera invented by Charles Hulcher that was originally designed for NASA to capture high-speed se…