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Photo by Ashley Landis, The Dallas Morning News 12-3-2016

Brad Bradley: Creative Director

“Creative Director” is about the best description available for James T. “Brad” Bradley, who began accumulating the wealth of sports memories on these pages more than 60 years ago.  There are literally tens of thousands of negatives and transparencies in the archives, and this site will likely never post them all.

Heck, he’s photographed more than 60 Cotton Bowls(!) and is a member of the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame.  The class of 2007 included notables like USC’s Keyshawn Johnson and Dat Nguyen from Texas A&M, and they both marveled at how many incredible athletes and coaches had been captured in Brad’s lens.

He’s also been honored by the National Football Foundation Gridiron Club of Dallas for his “outstanding contribution to amateur football,” and shares a spot in Southern Methodist University’s Heritage Hall with Don Meredith.

But the spotlight has shone far beyond athletics.  Other distinguished awards have come from the Highland Park (Dallas) Independent School District, Exchange Club of East Dallas, and Rotary International.

Brad went digital years ago, but he still cherishes the Graflex Speed Graphic camera shown in the accompanying photo.  “It put both my kids (Iris and Jimmy) through college,” he says.

And even though he recently turned 95, there doesn’t seem to be any letdown in sight.  He still works the SMU Athletic Forum, Cotton Bowl and all Highland Park High School teams.

Game ball, Wrigley Field Chicago, 7-5-2017

Floyd Stanley: General Manager

Floyd’s first truly professional newspaper story as a sports writer was an interview with . . . Willie Mays.  Sure, he’d worked in the sports department for the local paper in high school and had carried on in college at Oklahoma State and on Friday nights during football seasons at The Daily Oklahoman.

But Willie Mays?

“I’m not real sure I could read my notes because my hands had been shaking all the way through,” Floyd says of that afternoon with Willie Mays, “but I do remember how gracious he was to me.  I wasn’t even 21 yet – and in a job I’d dreamed I might be able to land in my 30s, if then.”

After five years Floyd left sports writing for a stint reporting on business and government, publishing nationally copyrighted stories about bank failures, congressional investigations, bankruptcies and mergers.  And that brings up another story.

While working for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Floyd got a tip that a major airline merger was underway.  St. Louis Cardinals immortal Stan “The Man” Musial was a director of one of those companies.  And remarkably enough, he was listed in the phone book!

The call was placed, and Mrs. Musial answered.  No, Stan wasn’t home, but she’d be glad to take a message and have him call back.  Yeah.  And then a little later, “Floyd, this is Stan Musial.  You called?”  Another copyrighted newspaper story.

Floyd was lucky enough to work in newspapers during the transition to digital publishing, and quickly embraced the technology.  Which brings him here. What better way to do two things he loves – with people he loves?  His wife, Iris, is Brad Bradley’s daughter.