About This Item

  • TitleEverything's Jake
  • Call NumberDODG_0084
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryBrooklyn Dodgers coach Jake Pitler in uniform and looking into camera; blurred view of stadium stands behind him. Caption: "Everything's Jake: Jake Pitler, first base coach of the Dodgers, is 59 years old but he still believes there's a Santa Claus. Until 1947 his entire baseball life was spent in the minors as player and manager, except for a brief trial with the Pirates. He played in little wooden parks, ate indigestible food, rode buses all night. Then the miracle happened -- the Dodgers sent for him and he was a big leaguer overnight."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 16, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched ; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Baseball coaches -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.