About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0215
  • TitlePlay ball
  • SummaryCaption: "Play ball--Opening day at Ebbets Field [located at Empire Boulevard and Bedford Avenue] gets under way as Borough President John Cashmore sets to toss out the first ball while Acting Dodger manager Clyde Sukeforth, right, looks on. Others getting a kick out of the occasion are, left, Eugene F. Moran, Port of New York Authority Commissioner, sitting directly in front of Borough Works Commissioner John J. Lynch, and former Unites States Senator James M. Mead."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Apr. 15, 1947; "Eagle photo." Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCashmore, John, 1895-1961 ; Moran, Eugene F ; Baseball -- 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: Portraits: Cashmore, John: 1940-1949: II