About This Item


  • Call NumberDODG_0646
  • TitleGood luck
  • SummaryBrooklyn Dodgers manager Burt Shotton, in Dodgers warm-up jacket, shaking hand of seated boy in office hung with framed baseball photographs (including one of Dodgers executive Branch Rickey). Caption: "Good Luck: Burt Shotton (left), manager of the high-flying Dodgers, and Roger Terry mutually congratulate each other on their achievements. Shotten is being hailed by youthful Flock rooter for the team's stirring comeback while Burt tells Roger he's delighted to know the youngster licked polio and is on his feet again."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 2, 1949. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectShotton, Burt ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Baseball managers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Baseball fans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- 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: Managers: Shotton, Burt: I