[Dodgers Leave For Spring Training]

Date1957

Can DescriptionsBrooklyn Dodgers baseball players board team plane to leave for spring training; interviews with Roy Campanella and Johnny Padres on runway beside plane; United Press story; from 'Sports Archive Reel 5'.

Viewing NotesSilent footage of a United Press teletype machine with the words New York City superimposed; footage of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball players boarding the team plane to leave for spring training; the side of the plane reads 1955 Dodgers; audio for interviews with Roy Campanella and Johnny Padres on runway beside plane; catcher Roy Campanella says his mustache began growing in Hiroshima, but that it will come off this week, and that the results of his surgery have been great; pitcher Johnny Podres says he has been looking forward to spring training for about 11 months; [he missed 1956 for military service]