Early bird gets choicest seats

Early bird gets choicest seats
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Title: Early bird gets choicest seats
Description:

Four men in office (possibly the mayor's office at City Hall) posing for exchange of tickets. Caption on verso: "Early Bird Gets Choicest Seats: Mayor Impellitteri acts as willing salesman while Roy Campanella and Ralph Branca of the Dodgers and Fred H. Lewis, let to right, purchase goodly chunks of tickets for Dodgers-Yankees benefit game Monday night, July 21, at Yankee Stadium, Proceeds go to sandlot baseball funds in this city."

Date: 1952
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Noble, Bob.
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: Jun. 23, 1952 photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Brooklyn Dodgers
Subject: Impellitteri, Vincent R. (Vincent Richard), 1900-1987.
Campanella, Roy, 1921-1993.
Branca, Ralph, 1926-
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Employees.
Baseball players
Mayors
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 1038