Gov. Saltonstall throws out first ball at Braves Field

Title:: Gov. Saltonstall throws out first ball at Braves Field
Description:: Massachusetts Governor Leverett Saltonstall throws out the ceremonial first pitch at Braves Field on Opening Day of the 1940 season.
Photographer:: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:: April 16, 1940
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Film negatives
Portrait photographs
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Leslie Jones Collection
Series:: Sports: Identified [Baseball]
Subjects:: Governors
Baseball
Sports spectators
Saltonstall, Leverett, 1892-1979
Braves Field (Boston, Mass.)
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Allston
Braves Field (Boston, Mass.)
Extent:: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/sj139v94d
Terms of Use:: Copyright (c) Leslie Jones.
All rights reserved.

Notes:: Original data provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve: Gov. Saltonstall throws out first ball at Braves Field, April 1940.
Corrected date based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2016.
Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2016.
The Boston Braves opened the 1940 season with a game against the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 16. Saltonstall was governor of Massachusetts from 1939 to 1945 (Society for American Baseball Research, 2016).
Accession #:: 08_06_036553

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