FDRBallScrambleAt37ASGame
Baseball's 1937 All-Stars scramble to get first ball thrown out by President FDR, Griffith Stadium, Washington DC
- Date
- 1937-07-07
- Photographer / author
- Harris-Ewing
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 4,627 × 3,560 pixels
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Reason: Harris & Ewing collection, given to the Library of Congress without copyright restrictions.
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