Illegal pickup

Published January 16, 2026 5:35am ET



It’s another reason the Dodgers never should have left Brooklyn.

If you had to choose one photograph to capture American childhood in the 1950s, you might pick an Arthur Leipzig shot of children playing stickball in front of the brownstones of Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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