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1947 Brooklyn Dodgers Team Wire Photo - Jackie Robinson Rookie Year
Displayed is a wire photo of the 1947 National League pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers, the team on which Jackie Robinson broke baseball's "Color Line." The '47 Dodgers went 94-60-1 in the regular season and lost in seven games to the New York Yankees in the World Series. The black and white team photo (7.5x9.1", framed to 8.5x10") contains the photos of four Hall of Famers. Hall of Famer Robinson, seated second from the right in the front row, despite the enormous pressure of being a civil rights trailblazer, had a marvelous season as he won the NL Rookie of the Year Award. He hit .297, led the league in steals (29) and sacrifice hits (28) and in a rarely noted achievement, he tied with Pee Wee Reese for the Dodgers' home run lead, with 12. Other Hall of Famers in the photo: Gil Hodges - third player from the left in the third row; Arky Vaughn - second from the right in the top row; Reese - fourth from left in top row; Hall of Fame center fielder Duke Snider was called up from the minors to join the Dodgers after this photo was taken. In the second row, in the middle of the photo is manager Burt Shotton, who took over the team from interim manager Clyde Sukefurth (seated on Shotton's right) after two games in the regular season. Shotton always wore civilian clothes as Brooklyn's manager. The photo has the personnel in the photo identified below the photo, and many other notable Dodgers are in the wire photo: Carl Furillo, Eddie Stanky, Ralph Branca, Pete Reiser, Harry "Cookie" Lavagetto, Rex Barney and more. The photo shows some fading from the passage of time and water damage to top corners makes it impossible to remove the photo from the frame. The top of the photo shows printing reading' "Welcome Home Legionnaires Day[?]", with a smudge over the word "Day." The team photo makes an interesting remembrance of an iconic team.
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