Generous hurler

Generous hurler
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Title: Generous hurler
Description:

Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Johnny Podres, with feet on desk, holding contract in one hand and offering a cigar to Walter O'Malley with the other. Caption on verso: "Generous Hurler: Johnny Podres, youthful Dodger southpaw, seems quite happy about the terms in his signed contract, so much so that he hands Dodger President Walter O'Malley some of Walter's own cigars in Walter's office."

Date: 1955
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Jan. 11, 1955; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Brooklyn Dodgers
Subject: Podres, Johnny, 1932-2008.
O'Malley, Walter F. (Walter Frank), 1903-1979.
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
Baseball players
Baseball team owners
Contracts
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 0922