About This Item

  • Call NumberDODG_0922
  • TitleGenerous hurler
  • SummaryBrooklyn Dodgers pitcher Johnny Podres, with feet on desk, holding contract in one hand and offering a cigar to Walter O'Malley with the other. Caption on verso: "Generous Hurler: Johnny Podres, youthful Dodger southpaw, seems quite happy about the terms in his signed contract, so much so that he hands Dodger President Walter O'Malley some of Walter's own cigars in Walter's office."
  • Date1955
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 11, 1955; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPodres, Johnny, 1932-2008 ; O'Malley, Walter F. (Walter Frank), 1903-1979 ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Baseball players -- New York (State) -- New York ; Baseball team owners -- New York (State) -- New York ; Contracts -- 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: Podres, Johnny