Handwriting on the wall
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| Title: | Handwriting on the wall |
| Description: | One of three views of fans (unsmiling in DODG 0896 and 0898, similing in 0897) watching Dodgers play Phillies at Ebbets Field. Caption on verso: "Handwriting on the Wall: 'For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been." So wrote John Greenleaf Whittier, and you can prove it by a quick look af faces of Dodger fans, left [0896], after Dick Sisler belted his three-run homer in top of tenth inning yesterday at Ebbets Field. In photo at right [0898], faces of Assistant District Attorney Julius Helfand and his son Robert, also mirror reflection of impending doom of Dodgers' 1950 pennant hopes. By contrast, bright spot in the Dodger attack, Peewee Reese's sixth-inning homer, caused such hijinks as Supreme Court Justice Henry L. Ughetta, left, and County Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz are indulging in middle picture [0897]." |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) |
| Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
| More Details: |
On versos: date stamped: Oct. 2, 1950; "Brooklyn Staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Retouched. |
| Collection: | Brooklyn Dodgers
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| Subject: |
Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.) Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) Baseball fans |
| 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 0898 |
