Red Sox catcher Moe Berg with batboy Donald Davidson, at Fenway

Title:: Red Sox catcher Moe Berg with batboy Donald Davidson, at Fenway
Description:: Boston Red Sox catcher Moe Berg with batboy Donald Davidson at Fenway Park.
Photographer:: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:: 1938
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Film negatives
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Leslie Jones Collection
Series:: Sports: Identified [Baseball]
Subjects:: Baseball players
Children
Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
Berg, Moe, 1902-1972
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/nz807f36p
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: Red Sox catcher Moe Berg with batboy Dan Davidson, at Fenway, 1938
Corrected title based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.
Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.
Batboy Donald Davidson, who was a dwarf, later become the traveling secretary for the Boston Braves, staying with the franchise through both of its moves to Milwaukee and Atlanta. He was fired by Braves owner Ted Turner in 1973 and then went to work for the Houston Astros (Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011).
Accession #:: 08_06_027474

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