About This Item

  • Call NumberDODG_1038
  • TitleEarly bird gets choicest seats
  • SummaryFour men in office (possibly the mayor's office at City Hall) posing for exchange of tickets. Caption on verso: "Early Bird Gets Choicest Seats: Mayor Impellitteri acts as willing salesman while Roy Campanella and Ralph Branca of the Dodgers and Fred H. Lewis, let to right, purchase goodly chunks of tickets for Dodgers-Yankees benefit game Monday night, July 21, at Yankee Stadium, Proceeds go to sandlot baseball funds in this city."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jun. 23, 1952 photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorNoble, Bob
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectImpellitteri, Vincent R. (Vincent Richard), 1900-1987 ; Campanella, Roy, 1921-1993 ; Branca, Ralph, 1926- ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Employees ; Baseball players -- New York (State) -- New York ; Mayors -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Sports: Baseball: Dodgers: Sandlot Ballplayers