About This Item

  • TitleIrving Rudd turns back sports' clock
  • Call NumberDODG_1036
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryBrooklyn Dodgers official Irving Rudd smiling before display of baseballs; some baseballs in boxes reading "Official Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball" and "Brooklyn Amateur Baseball Association"; location unknown, possibly the Dodgers office on Montague Street.. Caption on verso: "Irving Rudd Turns Back Sports' Clock: Ham-and-Egger -- Baseball having become a sensitive topic of conversation in the Dodger office, Irving Rudd, Brooklyn sandlot promoter, changed the subject to boxing. Unswerving Irving -- the nickname that our own Mr. Tommy Holmes bung on him -- was a ham-and-egger in the old days . . . ".
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 9 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jul. 9, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRudd, Irving ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Employees ; Sports promoters -- 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.