Geo-baseball

Geo-baseball
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Title: Geo-baseball
Description:

Young man pointing to Mexico on globe atop crowded desk in office; sign on wall next to him reads "5th Annual International Baseball Classic / Brooklyn Against the World / Brooklyn Eagle All Stars Vs. Montreal All Stars . . . " Caption on verso: "Geo-Baseball: Even ardent Brooklynites thought the Dodgers and the Eagle had a lot of crust to challenge the world to a sandlot baseball series in 1946 . . . At the right, Frank Graham Jr. executive secretary of the [Brooklyn Amateur Baseball] Foundation, spins a globe and points to Montreal [sic], where the 1950 series will be concluded Aug. 18 and 19."

Date: 1950
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: Jul. 30, 1950.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Brooklyn Dodgers
Subject: Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Employees.
Sports promoters
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 1037