Bat boy visits Ted Williams at the plate

Title:: Bat boy visits Ted Williams at the plate
Description:: Boston Red Sox Ted Williams (#9) exchanges a towel for a new bat with unknown Red Sox batboy at Fenway Park. Unknown catcher (#10) and unknown umpire look on.
Photographer:: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:: 1955
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Film negatives
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Leslie Jones Collection
Series:: Sports: Identified [Baseball]
Subjects:: Baseball players
Baseball umpires
Baseball
Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
Williams, Ted, 1918-2002
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5h73sf82g
Terms of Use:: Copyright (c) Leslie Jones.
All rights reserved.

Notes:: Original data from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve: Bat boy visits Ted Williams at the plate, ca. 1950-1959
Corrected date based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.
Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.
The black armband on the Red Sox uniforms make this post June 27, 1955. The opposing team is either Chicago, Detroit, or Washington (Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011).
Accession #:: 08_06_017203

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