Mangin pictures exhibited at Baseball Hall of Fame

Posted on November 30, 2010

The Autumn Glory exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown displays artifacts from the San Francisco Giants 2010 World Series victory, including several photographs by Brad Mangin (Photo by Milo Stewart Jr. / National Baseball Hall of Fame)

 

I am doing everything I can to soak up the San Francisco Giants first-ever World Series Championship in San Francisco. Many of my friends keep asking me how it feels to have my favorite team win it all for the first time in 56 years. I tell them that it has not sunk in yet. It is all surreal. However, when I start to see some of my photographs from the 2010 World Series being used to help illustrate their historic October run it starts to hit home. Especially when a few of my pictures recently showed up in the new “Autumn Glory ” exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown.

This must have really happened if the Hall of Fame has put together an exhibit about it, right? Those are some of my pictures telling the story of the Giants win, right? Man, I was really there and it really did happen? It sure did, and thanks to my friend Milo Stewart Jr., who just happens to be the staff photographer at the museum, I am now able to share this picture below as proof.

I know you will need a magnifying glass to see my pictures, but I will do my best to tell you which images are mine. The picture at the top left- the overhead view of the Ballpark in Arlington with fireworks going off is my picture after the Rangers won Game 3. Middle right you can see my picture of Buster Posey celebrating after the final out of Game 5 in Texas. In the collage in the bottom middle you can see two more of my pictures. One of Guillermo Mota and Sergio Romo kissing the trophy and another of the outside of the Ballpark in Arlington before Game 4.

One of the highlights of being at the World Series every year is seeing my friends from the Museum in attendance as they try and gather player equipment and memorabilia that will help tell the story of the Series in a display in Cooperstown. The 2010 Series was no different as Brad Horn, senior director, communications and education of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and Jeff Idelson, President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, were at the ballpark doing the best they could to gather historical artifacts to carry back to the birthplace of baseball.

Everything they gathered is now displayed, along with a few of my pictures, in the new Autumn Glory exhibit. Some of the pieces on display include: road jersey worn by Giants starting pitcher Tim Lincecum in Game 5; bat used by World Series Most Valuable Player Edgar Renteria to hit his game-winning home run in Game 5; World Series batting helmet worn by Cody Ross; cap worn by Madison Bumgarner in Game 4; cap worn by Matt Cain in Game 2; left spike worn by Aubrey Huff in the Series; catcher’s mask and spikes worn by Buster Posey throughout the Series.

Alright. I guess this all did happen, and I have some pictures to prove it! I hope to be able to share more proof with you all over the cold winter.