Ted Williams at bat at Fenway

Title:: Ted Williams at bat at Fenway
Description:: Boston Red Sox batter at the plate in front of Detroit Tigers catcher Red Wilson (#10) at Fenway Park.
Photographer:: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:: 1955
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Film negatives
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Leslie Jones Collection
Series:: Sports: Identified [Baseball]
Subjects:: Baseball players
Baseball umpires
Baseball
Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)
Williams, Ted, 1918-2002
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5h73sg06v
Terms of Use:: Copyright (c) Leslie Jones.
All rights reserved.

Notes:: Original data from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve: Ted Williams at bat at Fenway, ca. 1950-1959
Corrected date based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.
Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.
The black armband on the Red Sox uniform makes this post June 27, 1955, as the armband is in memory of player Harry Agganis. The only American League teams in 1955 to have a catcher wearing #10 were Detroit and Chicago (Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011).
Accession #:: 08_06_017215

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