![[Pee Wee Reese sliding into base]](../../external.gif?link=http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/e099c8d9ccbbb334314ac0c5aa90cac6&ext=.jpg)
| Title: | [Pee Wee Reese sliding into base] |
| Description: | Brooklyn Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese demonstrating base slide, with unidentified Dodger making the tag; billboards on outfield wall of Ebbets Field in background. Caption on verso: "[Pee Wee Reese] . . . executing the fadeaway slide that figures so prominently in the success of his thefts." |
| Date: | 1949 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
| More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Sep. 22, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title supplied by cataloger. Arc-shaped portion torn from upper right. |
| Collection: | Brooklyn Dodgers [4]
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| Subject: |
Reese, Pee Wee, 1918-1999. [5] Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) [6] Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.) [7] Baseball players [8] |
| 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 0942 |