About This Item

  • Call NumberDODG_0749
  • TitleGreetings for Don
  • SummaryBrooklyn Dodgers pitcher Don Newcombe, with right leg raised and glove on hand, in relaxed pose in dugout at Ebbets Field before game; scattered fans in stadium seats in background. Caption: "Greetings for Don: Uncle Sam decided he had a place for Don Newcombe, star right-hand hurler of the Dodgers, and thus the Army will get itself a new private while the Dodgers will lose a 20-game winner."
  • Date[1951?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: dates stamped and inscribed: 1949; Sep 27, 1951; Dec. 29, 1951; Apr. 22, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectNewcombe, Don, 1926- ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.) ; African American 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: Newcombe, Don: Portraits