http://www.theplayerstribune.com/th..._source=newsletter&utm_term=READ HARRYS ESSAY article highlighted and 'abridged' below, with additional info on Harry's photo's....... Harry Cabluck Guest Contributor Wednesday, October 21st marks the 40th Anniversary of one of the most memorable moments in World Series history: Carlton Fisk’s 12th-inning home run in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series. Associated Press photographer Harry Cabluck captured the iconic and enduring images after Fisk’s swing. This is the story behind those photos. Fisk was there because he was told to go stand in the batters box and take his cuts at the ball. And as a photographer, I was in center field because I was told to be there and point a camera at the plate. Simple as that. When the AP covers the Super Bowl, World Series or whatever, everybody has an assigned position. Center field was my position. I shot that image with an 800mm lens and a Leica. The AP had a 1000mm lens, but this was my lens. I was not an unusual photographer; I just had an unusual lens. Harry's 800mm is 39 inches long, and 32 lbs heavy.....shown below: I was in the motorcade in Dallas when Kennedy was shot. I made the pictures I could. I didn’t see gun fire or anything, I just pointed the camera out the window and shot three frames as we went by it. I just played the cards that I had. NOTE: (in another article, Cabluck stated he heard 4 distinct shots)...... With the Franco Harris “Immaculate Reception” play in 1972, the only thing that could’ve happened in the final minute of that game would be for the Steelers to score a touchdown. Nothing else would’ve done it. So I went from the opposite end of the field, where the Raiders had just scored, with a fresh roll of film, and the Immaculate Reception happened. That was just me anticipating what the heck else could happen in the game to make it change. I guess maybe that’s the soothsayer, right? Because there were only two people in that end zone: Me, and the NFL photographer, Ernie. The Red Sox sent Fisk to the plate to hit a home run and win the game. The AP team sent a photographer to center field to make a photograph of it. Each did his job. And so it goes. – Harry
additional Cabluck bio: He's taken photos of 10 presidents, every one since Kennedy. His were among the last images of JFK mobbed by crowds in Fort Worth before the president's assassination in Dallas a short time later. Cabluck has covered two Olympics (1976 summer games in Montreal and 1980 winter games in Lake Placid, N.Y.). "If you have an interesting object next to your face that's inviting, then people will want to read the story." Smith learned the lesson so well that it backfired one day. He brought a fish and a kid's fishing pole to a Capitol press conference about the danger of mercury in fish. He figured the short pole would allow the fish to dangle close to his face as he spoke. He didn't count on the fish being too heavy for the kiddie fish line. During the press conference, the line snapped, the fish flew and a curse word was uttered from the podium. Cabluck captured the moment. The photographer, however, was gracious enough to turn in the photo taken just before the fish got away. Cabluck can be gruff enough to ram through interference, but he's generous enough to give someone in need the camera off his back. In September 2008, he flew with Gov. Rick Perry to Galveston after Hurricane Ike hit. In the emergency command center, he found a drenched Erich Schlegel, a former Dallas Morning News shooter who had just begun a freelance career. Schlegel, working the storm for USA Today, had tried to get to Galveston in a 14-foot fishing boat but capsized. He was washed to shore along with a reporter and their ruined equipment. The Coast Guard brought them to the command center. "I was in shock and almost in tears," Schlegel said. "Basically, I was a hurricane victim." Then, he said, "the governor shows up in a helicopter and there was Harry. He was my little angel from heaven, literally." "What happened?" Cabluck asked. Schlegel told him about his watery ordeal. "He immediately started digging in his camera bag and pulled out an extra camera and lens and (digital) card." Schlegel used the borrowed equipment for two months. He's covered more Superbowls, World Series and national championship games than he can remember. Cabluck's captured the images that make up our collective memories, and our history books.
