About This Item

  • TitleFamily affair
  • Call NumberDODG_0479
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryBrooklyn Dodgers first baseman Gil Hodges with wife and two children posing in front of wooden building at Dodgers spring training camp in Vero Beach, Florida; sign on building reads, "Do No Play Pepper Games Against This Building." Caption: "Family Affair: Gil Hodges, slugging Dodger first sacker, has plenty of rooters in the Vero Beach training camp. Gil takes time out from his conditioning chores to pose for the photographers. He holds his son, Gil Jr., while his wife, Joan, has daughter, Irene, in her arms."
  • Date1954
  • 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: Mar. 2, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHodges, Gil, 1924-1972 -- Family ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Families -- Florida -- Vero Beach ; Spring training (Baseball) -- Florida -- Vero Beach
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationVero Beach (Fla.)
  • 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.