Gilding the Leo

Gilding the Leo
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Title: Gilding the Leo
Description:

Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher, in bath robe and pajamas, seated at table and gesturing with right arm. Caption: "Gilding the Leo: Dressed like an actor but talking like a big league manager, Leo Durocher of the Dodgers held press conference yesterday. Durocher greeted the scribes in baby blue pajamas and a multi-colored dressing gown that even overshadowed new Dodgers night game uniforms of jockey satin."

Date: [1946].
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Feb. 27, 1944.
Title from caption on verso.
Grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Brooklyn Dodgers
Subject: Durocher, Leo, 1906-1991.
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
Baseball managers
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
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 0634