Clem Labine was a fixture on the iconic Brooklyn Dodgers baseball teams of the 1950s, sharing the field with future Hall of Famers like Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and Pee Wee Reese. But before and after his remarkable fourteen-year pro ball career, (3 World Series rings and 2 All Star appearances), Clem was also a fixture on the “Jacob Finkelstein & Sons team”. Clem began working at the factory during his high school summers, beginning in 1942 at the age of sixteen. In 1944 he enlisted with the 101st Airborne and served until 1946. Returning stateside, he worked his way up through the minor league Dodgers’ system to join the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1951, his rookie season. Yet every off-season, Clem was back at Finkelstein's serving as assistant director of the Deerfoot Team and Award Division. And in 1962, when his baseball career finally ended, Clem returned full time to the company and was promoted to the position of General Manager – a position he held until the firm’s closing in 1988. Clem was knowledgeable in all aspects of the firm’s internal procedures and the entire process of outerwear manufacturing and design. He remained for decades an indispensable part of top management, sharing his time between Jacob Finkelstein & Sons’ Singleton Street facility, and the company’s New York Sales Offices, located in the Empire State Building, Suite# 305. With his fame, personality and good looks, Clem in many ways also became the ‘face’ of the company, especially in advertising campaigns and sales promotions. His expertise, persona and his celebrity served him, and the company, well. Indeed he was beloved and admired, not only by Dodger fans nationwide, but also by his fellow workers at the Woonsocket mill. Clem loved, and often recited, the following quotation of Thomas Edison: “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.” Clem felt a deep and long-lasting fondness for his factory co-workers – his “friends in overalls” - and they seemed to return the love. In presenting his biography it is only fitting to include two photographs. One to acknowledge his life as a Brooklyn Dodger icon; another, perhaps more importantly, to remember his associates, co-workers and friends at Jacob Finkelstein & Sons.