Tribute to Baseball's Founder,Washington,DC,Arlington National Cemetery,1939
Title: Tribute to baseball's founder. Washington, D.C., April 17. Although the scheduled opening game which President Roosevelt was supposed to open today was put off until Friday because of drizzling rain, both teams journeyed to Arlington National Cemetery this morning to lay a wreath at the grave of baseball's founder. Gen. Abner Doubleday, who as a West Point cadet was credited with having laid out the first ball diamond in 1839. Left to right: Clark Griffith, President of the Washington Club, Joe McCarthy, Manager of the N.Y. Yankees and Manager Bucky Harris, Manager of the Washington Senators
Creator(s): Harris & Ewing, photographer
Date Created/Published: [19]39 April 17.
Notes:
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch five.
Subjects:
United States--Virginia--Arlington.
Glass negatives.
Bookmark /hec2009013202/
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