Gov. Dever throws out first ball at Fenway as Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel look on.

Gov. Dever throws out first ball at Fenway as Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel look on.

Item Information

Title:
Gov. Dever throws out first ball at Fenway as Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel look on.
Description:
(l to r): Boston Red Sox manager Joe McCarthy, Massachusetts Governor Paul Dever, and New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel. Governor Dever is throwing out the first pitch at Fenway Park as McCarthy and Stengel look on.
Photographer:
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:
April 22, 1949
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Film negatives
Group portraits
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Leslie Jones Collection
Series:
Sports: Identified [Baseball]
Subjects:
Governors
Baseball
Baseball players
Baseball managers
Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
Dever, Paul A. (Paul Andrew), 1903-1958
Stengel, Casey
McCarthy, Joe, 1887-1978
New York Yankees (Baseball team)
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Fenway Park
Extent:
1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/sj139z029
Terms of Use:
Copyright (c) Leslie Jones.
All rights reserved.
Notes:
Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2016.
Paul Dever was governor of Massachusetts from 1949 to 1953 and died in 1958. The only two years during Dever's tenure in which Boston hosted the Yankees for the home opener were 1949 and 1950 (Society for American Baseball Research, 2016).
Accession #:
08_06_036657