Gov. Saltonstall throws out first ball at Fenway

Title:: Gov. Saltonstall throws out first ball at Fenway
Description:: Massachusetts Governor Leverett Saltonstall throws out the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park on Opening Day of the 1940 season.
Photographer:: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:: [ca. April 19, 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
Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
Saltonstall, Leverett, 1892-1979
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Fenway Park
Extent:: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/sj139w02w
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 Fenway, 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 Red Sox opened the 1940 season with a game against the Philadelphia Athletics on April 19. Saltonstall was governor of Massachusetts from 1939 to 1945 (Society for American Baseball Research, 2016).
Accession #:: 08_06_036557

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