“There's a famous picture taken in the 1950s of Willie Mays playing stickball in Harlem. I played a lot of stickball growing up and always loved it. I wanted to replicate the Mays photo in Cuba because baseball is the national sport there. It's…
“This was a story in Sports Illustrated about Hall of Fame baseball players who were getting up in age. We did Warren Spahn, Willie Mays, Ernie Banks, Bob Feller among others. I shot 8x10 sepia Polaroids. I got Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra to pose…
Williams spent his entire career as a left fielder for the Boston Red Sox. This photograph was taken during Williams’ last year with the team. Iooss was 17 years old.