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