Detroit Tigers player greeted by teammate as he crosses the plate

Title:: Detroit Tigers player greeted by teammate as he crosses the plate
Description:: Detroit Tigers base runner Hank Greenberg crosses home plate in front of Boston Red Sox catcher Moe Berg at Fenway Park. Unknown Tigers batboy and home plate umpire Charles Johnston look on.
Photographer:: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:: August 1, 1937
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Glass negatives
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Leslie Jones Collection
Series:: Sports: Identified [Baseball]
Subjects:: Baseball players
Baseball umpires
Baseball
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)
Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
Berg, Moe, 1902-1972
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/b5644x68s
Terms of Use:: Copyright (c) Leslie Jones.
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Notes:: Original data provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve: Detroit Tigers player greeted by teammate as he crosses the plate, 1937
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.
Of Hank Greenberg's 40 home runs in 1937, six of them came at Fenway over five games (5/21, 5/22, 6/23, 8/1, and 9/21), but Moe Berg was only behind the plate for two of those games (6/23 and 8/1). Greenberg's home run on 6/23 was a grand slam and the one on 8/1 was a solo shot. Given the lack of other Tiger players at the home plate area, this has to be the 8/1 solo shot (Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011).
Accession #:: 08_06_010870

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