Brooklyn Dodgers Photo & Audiovisual

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Judas Priest! From The Natural to The Mahatma? Talk that Robert Redford will play Branch Rickey in a potential movie project:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movi...s-redford.html

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This one's for penncentralpete, though I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's aware of it already. If he had the disposable income, he'd probably be the one who commissioned it!

http://www.canada.com/sports/basebal...789/story.html

[penncentralpete]

Oh baby!! Now that's a WOW!

[VIBaseball]

Newly released series of 25 LIFE photos (not previously published in the magazine). The scene: Dodgertown in Vero Beach, 1948.

#4 features a 21-year-old Carl Erskine. #21 shows an 18-year-old Dick Williams.
Among other notable names: Pepper Martin (coaching), Branch Rickey, and Freasco Thompson.

http://life.time.com/culture/life-wi...085605&timeOut

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From May 17 through May 19, in Manhattan, there will be a historical presentation of many postcards featuring the Brooklyn Dodgers and their ballparks:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/w...FqUTomjM6BU5vK

[VIBaseball]

I wish you luck. You have got a tough job ahead of you. Smyres is almost a figment of our cllective imagination as I know of nobody who has his picture and no one has been aboe to get his autograph, even after trying to get it by following him to motels and looking at the register and even sending him stuff "return receipt" requested or registered.

As to the others, some years ago (less than 15, maybe kess than 10) Target Stores put out a card set of all the Dodgers from year one to the then present. The cards all had black and white photos I know that Zachary had such a card and i believe I have seen Franklin and Wells. I am not sure about Osgood. The two from the 1930s would not have caught my attention as I concentrated only on 1940 to 1957.
Good Luck!!

Cross-posting this link, courtesy of the Card Collecting and Memorabilia forum (I had to believe that Clancy Smyres' name had come up at least once in the past on this forum, and indeed it had).

http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com...han-babe-ruth/