About This Item


  • Call NumberDODG_0380
  • TitleFielder's choice
  • SummaryCarl Furillo standing between two men in ceremony before game at Ebbets Field. Typed label on verso: "Carl Furillo, Dodger rightfielder, receives the two U. S. Savings Bonds he chose as his Dodger-of-the-Week Award from John V. McTernan, Savings Bond Director for Brooklyn, (left) as Jim Hausman, representing the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co., looks on. Furillo was picked for the Schaefer Dodger-of-the-Week Award by a committee of newspapermen for his 'excellent playing' during two successive weeks in the team's recent western trip."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle and date (July 10, 1953) from typed label on verso.
  • SubjectFurillo, Carl, 1922-1989 ; 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: Furillo, Carl: Portraits