Red Sox trainer Bits Bierhalter, stokes up the hot stove in clubhouse at Fenway

Red Sox trainer Bits Bierhalter, stokes up the hot stove in clubhouse at Fenway

Item Information

Title:
Red Sox trainer Bits Bierhalter, stokes up the hot stove in clubhouse at Fenway
Description:
Red Sox trainer Bits Bierhalter (with shovel) stokes up the stove in the Red Sox locker room while several players, including pitcher Danny MacFayden (wearing glasses), pitcher Jack Russell (at far left), and catcher Charlie Berry (third from left), look on.
Photographer:
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:
[ca. 1928–1930]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Glass negatives
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Leslie Jones Collection
Series:
Sports: Identified [Baseball]
Subjects:
Coaches (Athletics)
Baseball players
Locker rooms
Stoves
Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/b5644v142
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 trainer Bits Bierhalter, stokes up the hot stove in clubhouse at Fenway, ca. 1932
Corrected date based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011, 2015.
Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011, 2015.
The players are wearing a pinstriped uniform style that they last wore in 1929. Odds are this is 1928, 1929, or 1930 spring training (Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011, 2015).
Accession #:
08_06_010743