Baseball

President Truman in first row at a Washington Senators baseball game. Seated next to him at right are Admiral William Leahy and Press Secretary Charles Ross. On the base of the stereograph is the typed quote "The President: You see, Bess, these balls aren't as good as the kind I used at Noland." From; Lowell Mason's Stereographic Library, Annual Baseball Outing, Volumes I and II. Photographs are of Baseball, Clam and Chowder Club of the United States Senate, of which Harry S. Truman was a member.

Stereograph of Senator Robert Taft standing next to an easel with a card "Our Motto: No Nation can be truly great that hath not some child like in its life of every day. It should its youth renew with simple joys that sweetly recreate the jaded mind." From; Lowell Mason's Stereographic Library, Annual Baseball Outing, Volumes I and II. Photographs are of Baseball, Clam and Chowder Club of the United States Senate, of which Harry S. Truman was a member.

Stereograph of group of Senators placing bets on Lowell Mason's baseball board. James Mead is standing at the rear. Robert La Follete is closest to board, followed by Arthur Vandenberg, then Wallace H. White. From: Lowell Mason's Stereographic Library, Annual Baseball Outing, Volumes I and II. Photographs are of Baseball, Clam and Chowder Club of the United States Senate, of which Harry S. Truman was a member.

Stereograph of Senator and Mrs. Harry S. Truman at a baseball game for the Washington Senators. Margaret Truman can be seen at the far left. Charles Ross can be seen in the row behind Truman. From: Lowell Mason's Stereographic Library, Annual Baseball Outing, Volumes I and II. Photographs are of Baseball, Clam and chowder club of the United States Senate, of which Harry S. Truman was a member.

Stereograph of President Harry S. Truman throwing out a ball at a Washington Senators baseball game. Bess Truman and Margaret Truman are at his left. From; Lowell Mason's Stereographic Library, Annual Baseball Outing, Volumes I and II. Photographs are of Baseball, Clam and Chowder Club of the United States Senate, of which Harry S. Truman was a member.

From left to right, Bess Truman, former President Harry S. Truman, and Charles Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics. They are watching a Boston-Kansas City baseball game. From: Houston Post

Harry S. Truman stands in his Yankee Stadium box today between homerun sluggers Roger Maris, left, and Mickey Mantle. Going into the game against the Washington Senators, which Truman viewed, Maris had 53 homeruns and Mantle, 50, in their quest for a new season record. From: Houston Post.

Forester Lyle Watts, front row left, and fellow members of the Tofte-Schroeder, Minnesota baseball team in Superior National Forest.

E. Clifton Daniel, Jr. (far right) sits in the New York Yankees' locker room in St. Petersburg, Florida, and interviews (from left to right) Joseph Durso, New York Times sports reporter; Joseph M. Sheehan, Assistant Sports Editor; and Tom Seaver, Mets' pitcher. The interview was for Daniel's television show, "News in Perspective."

Former First Lady Bess Truman and her daughter, Margaret, cast two votes for some lucky major leaguers for the All Star baseball game July 14th in Cincinnati. They stopped at the ballot box to drop their ballots as they entered Griffith Stadium tonight to see the Washington Senators and the St. Louis Browns play. Former President Truman did not accompany them. From: Houston Post.