About This Item

  • TitleTake me in to the ball game
  • Call NumberDODG_0184
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryAdolescent boys looking into camera and pressed against railing at Ebbets Field; boy in center of composition making beseeching gesture. Caption: "Take Me in to the Ball Game: A sea of disappointed faces peer through the shut gates at Ebbets Field, where an overflow crowd of fans was turned away for the final game of the Yankee-Dodger series. Such expressions haven't been worn since the breadlines of the depression . . . all this, for the Dodgers!"'.
  • Date1952
  • 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: Oct. 7, 1952; "Eagle Staff Photo by Lambert." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.) ; Baseball fans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Teenage boys -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (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.