[Collage of Gil Hodes and umpire]

[Collage of Gil Hodes and umpire]
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Title: [Collage of Gil Hodes and umpire]
Description:

Photographic cut-outs of Brooklyn Dodgers first baseman Gil Hodges and umpire Artie Gore collaged with drawn or inked representations of Hodges' body, an alarm clock, an hour glass, and a Valentine; two comic poems ("Hodges to Gore" and "Gore to Hodges") on verso. Partial caption on verso: "[Thi]ngs might have been different for the Dodgers [in the] World Series with the Yankees if Gil Hodges [had bee]n called safe by Umpire Artie Gore in the [illegible] play at third in the first game at the [illegible] Stadium."

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Title supplied by cataloger.
On verso: date stamped: Feb. 14, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks and notations.
Collection: Brooklyn Dodgers
Subject: Hodges, Gil, 1924-1972.
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
Baseball players
Baseball umpires
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Collages.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: DODG 0490