About This Item

  • Call NumberDODG_1195
  • TitleRecovered rookie in fold
  • SummaryBrooklyn Dodgers infielder (later manager and coach) Don Zimmer posing as if to throw ball at Ebbets Field; two or three figures standing amid stadium seats in background. Caption on verso: "Recovered Rookie in Fold: Don Zimmer, the anticipated successor to Pee Wee Reese as the Dodger shortstop, who has apparently recovered from his beaning last July while playing for St. Paul. Zimmer, whose signed 1954 contract was returned yesterday, is spending the Winter at his in-law's home at Tampa, Fla."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Sep. 23, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectZimmer, Don, 1931- ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.) ; Baseball players -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (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: Zimmer, Don