About This Item

  • Title[Walter Alston at basketball game]
  • Call NumberDODG_0022
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryBrooklyn Dodgers manager Walter Alston seated on bleachers amid crowd watching game (unseen) in gymnasium. Typed label on verso: "Walter Alston, new Dodger manager, center, watches his alma mater, Miami U. of Ohio, play a basketball game at Oxford, only four miles from his Darrtown, O., home. At his right is Mrs. Alston and at his left George Rider, Miami track coach."
  • Date[1954?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: "please return to Gilson Wright Oxford Ohio."
  • SubjectAlston, Walter, 1911-1984 ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) ; Baseball managers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gymnasiums -- Ohio -- Oxford
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationOxford (Ohio)
  • 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.