About This Item

  • Call NumberDODG_0510
  • TitleThinking back
  • SummaryBrooklyn Dodgers first baseman Gil Hodges (in suit, holding football) standing with two other men in suits before curtain in unidentified restaurant or possibly in banquet room at Abraham and Straus department store in downtown Brooklyn. Caption: "Thinking Back: Gil Hodges, Dodger first baseman (right), talks of his football days with Jim Lee Howell, football coach of the New York Giants (center) and Fritz Barzilauskas, freshman football coach at Yale University, at last night's A & S dinner."
  • Date1955
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 14, 1955; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHodges, Gil, 1924-1972 ; Howell, Jim Lee, 1914-1975 ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Abraham & Straus ; Baseball players -- New York (State) -- New York ; Football coaches -- 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: Hodges, Gil : Portraits