Lot # 1335: 1966 Jackie Robinson Original News Service Photograph PSA/DNA Type I

Jackie Robinson is a baseball legend, and a shining star of social justice, but he came up short in the prophecy department, when this 1966 Type I news service photograph was taken. Robinson was delivering a speech at a Milwaukee Boys’ Club dinner, when he expressed his feeling that Milwaukee would never get another baseball team. His comment is detailed in the text of a clipping affixed to the reverse of this 8x10 photograph. The clipping is stamp dated 4/1/66, just as the transplanted Braves were about to begin their first season in Atlanta. Credit for the photo is printed on the clipping as “Journal Photo by Allan Scott”. Of course, the Brewers relocated to Milwaukee in 1970, following a single season in Seattle as the short-lived Pilots. Employed as general manager of the Continental Football League’s Brooklyn Dodgers in 1966, Robinson displays a serious demeanor in this vintage Type I photograph, which rates as (GD).

Full LOA from PSA/DNA.