Opening '56 ball game (Ike throwing ball)
Opening Day Baseball Game between Washington Senators and New York Yankees, Yankees Manager Casey Stengel to right, Senators Manager Chuck Dressen to left
- Date
- 1956-04-17
- Photographer / author
- Warren K. Leffler
- Collection
- U.S. News & World Report
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 7,905 × 8,206 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: U.S. News & World Report collection, given to the Library of Congress without copyright.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD U.S. News & World Report; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Opening '56 ball game (Ike throwing ball)" (1956-04-17). Warren K. Leffler. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Opening_%2756_ball_game_(Ike_throwing_ball).jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 163294.
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