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Segregated 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers on Chase Hotel Stationery
A revealing representation of baseball Americana. 20 signatures of the 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers with its African American players absent. Sheet of Chase Hotel in St. Louis stationery is penned with the segregated signatures of Dressen, Snider, Pafko, Labine, Roe, Reese, Abrams, Pitler, Terwilliger, Branca, Walker, Schmitz, Hampstead, Livingston, Bridges, Erskine, Dressen, Furillo, Cox, Russell, and announcer Red Barber. Conspicuously absent because they could not stay at the “whites only” hotel is Roy Campanella, Dan Bankhead, Don Newcombe and Jackie Robinson. These Dodgers blue were not allowed to stay at the Chase Hotel, which ironically is still there and in business. They stayed in the black sections of town in substandard hotels and sometimes in prominent people and friends homes. Regardless, they were treated as royalty. Condition: The sheet is folded twice. The signatures have a clear coating (now stable), which has created a silhouette. Otherwise they are dark, clear and unaffected. Overall better than very good condition. This seemingly harmless Dodger “team sheet” is a not to be forgotten symbol of hate in baseball, and in our country. It is the first segregationist baseball document of this type we have seen in our many years of searching.
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