About This Item

  • TitleSetting up a winning play
  • Call NumberDODG_0978
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryBrooklyn Dodgers second baseman Jackie Robinson (in Dodgers uniform) posing with man in suit, together holding a pamphlet that reads, "For the future and America's give to the United Negro College Fund." Typed press release on verso: "Setting Up a Winning Play: Brooklyn's Jackie Robinson teams up with Richard A. Brennan, president of Brooklyn's Brevoort Savings Bank, to open up the 1954 United Negro College Fund campaign season in Dodgertown. Robinson, who is co-chairman of the Fund's New York City Men's Division, is adding his support to the Brooklyn campaign which Breenan heads . . . ".
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jun. 2, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from typed press release on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRobinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 ; United Negro College Fund ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; African American baseball players -- New York (State) -- New York ; Bankers -- 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.