An identification question for Brooklyn Dodger fans

[Imgran]

Someone posted an image of a player on the Red Sox forum to ask if we knew what it was. He thought he was a member of the Boston Braves, but when I looked at his cap and uni, I suspected you guys might know more than I did.

http://www.baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34278&stc=1&d=1200679677

I can understand why the question was asked on our forum, because it's a similar style to the B the Boston Red Sox use, but unless I'm very much mistaken that is a Brooklyn Dodgers cap this guy is wearing. I believe that this is the thinner, one-color Brooklyn B instead of the thicker, two-color Boston B. And I know the Braves used a different style altogether -- they used a B that looks like Detroit's D, not Boston's or Brooklyn's B.

So this is either a Red Sox or a Dodger, not a Brave. And there's a hint of cursive writing on the guy's uni, under the arm. the Sox never did that to their uni, so it's a Dodger.

Anyone have more info or want to shoot down my logic? Or better yet, ID the player? Someone in the Sox forum suggested Campanella without much conviction. Might that be him?

[DODGER DEB]

Someone posted an image of a player on the Red Sox forum to ask if we knew what it was. He thought he was a member of the Boston Braves, but when I looked at his cap and uni, I suspected you guys might know more than I did.

http://www.baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34278&stc=1&d=1200679677

I can understand why the question was asked on our forum, because it's a similar style to the B the Boston Red Sox use, but unless I'm very much mistaken that is a Brooklyn Dodgers cap this guy is wearing. I believe that this is the thinner, one-color Brooklyn B instead of the thicker, two-color Boston B. And I know the Braves used a different style altogether -- they used a B that looks like Detroit's D, not Boston's or Brooklyn's B.

So this is either a Red Sox or a Dodger, not a Brave. And there's a hint of cursive writing on the guy's uni, under the arm. Boston never did that to their uni, so it's a Dodger. Anyone have more info or want to shoot down my logic?

That is a photo, albeit a bad one, of OUR ROY CAMPANELLA, taken at OUR Ebbets Field around 1949/1950.

c.

[Imgran]

Thanks for the info.

(hey, at least I knew it was a Brooklyn cap...)

[DODGER DEB]

Thanks for the info.

(hey, at least I knew it was a Brooklyn cap...)

You are quite welcome...and I do thank you for recognizing OUR BROOKLYN Cap. I appreciate that!

c.

[Spirit of '55]

Friends:

I own a few different Brooklyn caps. It's amazing how many people come up to me and say, "I've never seen a Red Sox cap like that!"

This is especially true of the Babe Herman-era cap that has white piping at the seams and a red B (in honor of Uncle Robbie's Robins) in the Boston style.

I found an interesting Times sports page that covered a 1918 game between the Robins and the Phillies. We lost. The article refers to Brooklyn as the Dodgers, the Brooks, and the Robins---an early 20th century identity crisis. :homeplate:

[Imgran]

I think that's probably how that photo wound up in our forum.

I think that most Red Sox fans wish the Dodgers had stayed in Brooklyn. Can you imagine the Dodger-Yankee interleague games? And they would have happened every year like the Yank-Mets do. And that special blend of Yankee hatred that Sox fans have... it would have been nice to share that.

In a way the Sox are the Brooklyn Dodgers of the American League, both in being beloved in their home region and in their relationship with the Yankees. There was no reason to move that team. Besides their own success the success of the Sox themselves proves it could have worked.

[Yankeebiscuitfan]

Friends:

I own a few different Brooklyn caps. It's amazing how many people come up to me and say, "I've never seen a Red Sox cap like that!"

This is especially true of the Babe Herman-era cap that has white piping at the seams and a red B (in honor of Uncle Robbie's Robins) in the Boston style.

I found an interesting Times sports page that covered a 1918 game between the Robins and the Phillies. We lost. The article refers to Brooklyn as the Dodgers, the Brooks, and the Robins---an early 20th century identity crisis. :homeplate:

I have the 1950's Brooklyn cap. Twice I was asked of which team it was. When I said the Dodgers, they were riddled. They could not believe that the Bums came from Brooklyn originally.

Maybe you can not blame the Dutch, but still I think that someone who claims to be a baseball fan, must know that Brooklyn was the original home of the Dodgers.

[dodger dynamo]

boston and brooklyn do have shared hatred for the yanks. when the sox beat the yanks four straight after being down three and the cardinals (who were our rivals too) in four straight. I was very happy for the red sox. the other team with a great history and ball park which still stands. the 1916 series must have been cool. battlin bake the dodger dynamo.