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Circa 1948 Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Carl Furillo "Bunts and Boots" Original Photograph
Presented is a "Bunts and Boots" circa 1948 black and white 6x8.1" photograph of three Brooklyn Dodgers players: Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, and Carl Furillo. The Dodgers won the National League pennant in 1947, Robinson's rookie season. That year, Robinson, playing first base, in part so that he wouldn't be exposed to race-based vicious take-out slides at second base, changed American history by breaking Major League Baseball's "color line." Under tremendous pressure as a social trailblazer, Robinson came through with flying colors as he hit .297, led the NL in steals, with 29, and won the NL Rookie of the Year Award. In 1948, Robinson was switched to second base. In the displayed photo, with "Bunts and Boots" painted on the right side, and the back of the photo shows remnants of glue, and a handwritten, by an unknown hand, "Bunts and Boots" and a Wide World Photo stamp. In the offered photo, it seems that Hall of Fame shortstop Pee Wee Reese has tossed a ball to Robinson, who springs into the air as he pivots on the suggested double-play. The presented photo was taken on a spring training field. Carl Furillo, Brooklyn's hard-nosed right-fielder, appears smiling and relaxed, so the photo is obviously staged - as all three competitors are far too at ease for the photo to have been taken in the midst of o,n-field action. Nevertheless, the photo is symbolic in that after Robinson's traumatic '47 "Summer of his Discontent" the Dodgers felt that in '48 that Jackie could play second base, his natural position, without excessive fear of racially motivated slides, so Robinson began working at second base, and baseball added more African-Americans and moved forward.
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