Brad Mangin:
Mickey Pfleger enjoys a wonderful Saturday afternoon photographing the Redskins @ 49ers game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in December of 2004.
After a long illness, Mickey Pfleger, a freelance sports photographer, friend and mentor to many photographers around the country, died Friday morning in Carmichael (near Sacramento), CA. He was 61.Many people remember Mickey from the stories published during the past 10-years on SportsShooter.com. In November, 2000, he was crushed out of bounds by Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez during a game against the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park, and was rushed to the hospital, where an MRI revealed he had a brain tumor. After this Mickey’s life was never the same.
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