About This Item

  • TitleHeart warning
  • Call NumberDODG_0489
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryGil Hodges (in suit) autographing baseball for boy with baseball glove in hospital bed, as other man in suit watches. Caption: "Heart warning: Gil Hodges (left) and Tommy Holmes visit 13-year-old Robert Gray at Rockefeller Institute where youngster is suffering from rare heart disease. The Oregon Heart Association -- Robert lives in Portland -- was notified that the youngster wanted nothing more than to meet the Dodgers first baseman and Holmes, new Forth Worth manager. Arrangements for the visit were quickly made and Gil and Tommy responded by bringing the youngster a ball, glove, shirt and books on how to play baseball."
  • Date1955
  • 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: Jan. 9, 1955; United Press Associations stamp (partly legible); Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorUnited Press Associations
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHodges, Gil, 1924-1972 ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Rockefeller Institute ; Baseball players -- New York (State) -- New York ; Baseball fans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.