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Truman preparing to throw out the first baseball pitch of the season

73-2426
Accession Number
73-2426
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 338955950
Keywords
Baseball
Baseball players
Friends and associates
Naval officers
Presidential press secretaries
Presidents
White House staff
HST Keywords
Truman - Sports - Baseball - 1944-1947
People Pictured
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Bluege, Oswald (Oswald Louis), 1900-1985
Clifford, Clark M. (Clark McAdams), 1906-1998
Connelly, Matthew J., 1907-1976
Evans, Tom L. (Thomas Lynn), 1896-1970
Foskett, James H. (James Hicks), 1898-1961
Harris, Stanley Raymond, 1896-1977
Hassett, William D. (William David), 1880-1965
Leahy, William D. (William Daniel), 1875-1959
Ross, Charles G. (Charles Griffith), 1885-1950
Steelman, John Roy, 1900-1999
Rights

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Credit:
Abbie Rowe
National Park Service

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
President Harry S. Truman preparing to throw out the first ball of the 1947 baseball season at Washington's Griffith Stadium. First row, behind railing, left to right: unidentified woman; Tom Evans; Press Secretary Charles Ross; unidentified; President Truman (standing); Admiral William Leahy; Washington Senators manager Ossie Bluege; New York Yankee's manager Bucky Harris. Second row, behind railing from left to right: Matthew Connelly; William Hassett (partly obscured); Clark Clifford; John Steelman; Captain James Foskett. Others are unidentified.
Date(s)
April 18, 1947