East Coast Attractions
Brooklyn Historical Society
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128 Pierrepont St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel. (718) 222-4111
Fax. (718) 222-3794
Inside this four-story brick building (which dates to 1881), the Dodgers are still a hot topic, right up there with the Brooklyn Bridge, Coney Island and Walt Whitman. Archivist Leilani Dawson reports that the society has Dodger books, a digital image collection, team yearbooks, World Series programs, scorecards that date to the 1890s, a vintage Jackie Robinson comic book, architectural plans for Ebbets Field and an archive of clippings from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (now also gone but available online). If you make an appointment, you can sift through just about all of it. Or you could step outside and start accosting likely codgers.
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