Ty Cobb and crowd a Commonwealth Country Club during match with Babe Ruth

Ty Cobb and crowd a Commonwealth Country Club during match with Babe Ruth

Item Information

Title:
Ty Cobb and crowd a Commonwealth Country Club during match with Babe Ruth
Description:
Ty Cobb cradling a golf club under his left arm and surrounded by a crowd of spectators at Commonwealth Country Club prior to an exhibition match with Babe Ruth.
Photographer:
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:
June 25, 1941
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Film negatives
Portrait photographs
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Leslie Jones Collection
Series:
Sports: Identified [Baseball]
Subjects:
Baseball players
Golf
Sports spectators
Cobb, Ty, 1886-1961
Places:
Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Newton
Extent:
1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/sj139v68s
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: Ty Cobb and crowd at Brae Burn during match with Babe Ruth, June 1941.
Corrected title and date based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2018.
Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2018.
On June 25, 1941, Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb met at the Commonwealth Country Club in Newton, MA for the first of three charity golf matches (Society for American Baseball Research, 2018).
Accession #:
08_06_036540