About This Item

  • Call NumberDODG_0485
  • TitlePicture of dejection
  • SummaryBrooklyn Dodgers outfielder Jim Russell (hand on cheek, looking down) and first baseman Gil Hodges (without shirt, holding cigarette) sitting side by side in locker room, presumably after losing 1950 pennant race to Philadelphia Phillies. Caption: "Picture of Dejection: Jim Russell, left, and Gil Hodges feel pretty blue and low in the Dodgers' dressing room after the battle was all over."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 2, 1950; "Eagle Sports Picture."
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHodges, Gil, 1924-1972 ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Baseball players -- New York (State) -- New York ; Locker rooms -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • 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: Hodges, Gil : General