About This Item

  • Call NumberDODG_0232
  • TitleMourn, all ye Giant fans!
  • SummaryMan in tie and white shirt looking at doll in toy coffin labeled "Giants." Caption: "Mourn, All Ye Giant Fans!: Tom McDonough, bartender and no Giant fan, shows how it should properly be done as, at Eisen's Bar, 46 Hoyt St., where he is employed, he stands by miniature coffin, flanked with lighted candles, in which 'remains' of that certain baseball club across the river lie ready for interment. Candles were lighted at 1:30 1/4 p.m. yesterday, immediately after start of game in which Polo Grounders were humiliated, 10 to 0."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 3, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Baseball fans -- 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: Fans: General