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The Brooklyn Dodgers pose for a team photo at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, Sept. 18, 1956. Front, on ground: Charles Di Giovanna. Seated, first row, from left: Sandy Amoros, Joe Becker, Billy Herman, Jake Pitler, Walt Alston, Pee Wee Reese, Clem Labine, Carl
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Ace Parker (7) of the Brooklyn Dodgers football team, getting away a pass in the 1st quarter of game with New York Giants at the Polo Grounds in New York City, Dec.
![Brooklyn Dodgers football team pose for a team photo, Oct. 25, 1939. Front row from left: Waddie Young, Bruiser Kinard, Bob Haak, Carl Kaplanoff, Louis Mark, Leo Disend, Perry Schwartz. Back row](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2N8JJJD/preacher-roe-brooklyn-dodgers-star-hurler-is-thanking-fans-during-ceremony-honoring-him-before-the-dodger-cardinals-game-at-sportsmans-park-in-st-louis-mo-september-19-1951-during-the-ceremony-roe-was-presented-a-new-car-standing-next-to-roe-is-dr-george-s-benson-president-of-harding-college-searcy-park-who-made-the-presentation-members-of-the-dodger-baseball-team-are-standing-in-group-in-rear-ap-photo-2N8JJJD.jpg)
The Brooklyn Dodgers pose for a team photo at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, Sept. 18, 1956. Front, on ground: Charles Di Giovanna. Seated, first row, from left: Sandy Amoros, Joe Becker, Billy Herman
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Ace Parker (7) of the Brooklyn Dodgers football team, getting away a pass in the 1st quarter of game with New York Giants at the Polo Grounds in New York City, Dec.
![Brooklyn Dodgers football team pose for a team photo, Oct. 25, 1939. Front row from left: Waddie Young, Bruiser Kinard, Bob Haak, Carl Kaplanoff, Louis Mark, Leo Disend, Perry Schwartz. Back row](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2MK72EJ/brooklyn-dodgers-football-team-pose-for-a-team-photo-oct-25-1939-front-row-from-left-waddie-young-bruiser-kinard-bob-haak-carl-kaplanoff-louis-mark-leo-disend-perry-schwartz-back-row-from-left-ralph-kercheval-wendell-butcher-pug-manders-ace-parker-ap-photo-2MK72EJ.jpg)
Brooklyn Dodgers football team pose for a team photo, Oct. 25, 1939. Front row from left: Waddie Young, Bruiser Kinard, Bob Haak, Carl Kaplanoff, Louis Mark, Leo Disend, Perry Schwartz. Back row
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Ace Parker (7) of the Brooklyn Dodgers football team, getting away a pass in the 1st quarter of game with New York Giants at the Polo Grounds in New York City, Dec.
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The Brooklyn Dodgers pose for a team photo at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, Sept. 18, 1956. Front, on ground: Charles Di Giovanna. Seated, first row, from left: Sandy Amoros, Joe Becker, Billy Herman
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The Brooklyn Dodgers pose for a team photo at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, Sept. 18, 1956. Front, on ground: Charles Di Giovanna. Seated, first row, from left: Sandy Amoros, Joe Becker, Billy Herman