Jimmy Piersall and Bobby Doerr at Braves Field

Title:: Jimmy Piersall and Bobby Doerr at Braves Field
Description:: (l to r): Boston Red Sox Bobby Doerr (in overcoat) is leaning over grandstand wall to pose with Red Sox Jimmy Piersall at Braves Field.
Photographer:: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:: [ca. 1950]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Film negatives
Group portraits
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Leslie Jones Collection
Series:: Sports: Identified [Baseball]
Subjects:: Baseball players
Piersall, Jimmy
Braves Field (Boston, Mass.)
Doerr, Bobby, 1918-2017
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Allston
Braves Field (Boston, Mass.)
Extent:: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/sj139x643
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: Jimmy Piersall and Bobby Doerr at Fenway, ca. 1950.
Corrected title based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2016.
Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2016.
Jimmy Piersall, a rookie in 1950, is wearing the Boston Red Sox road uniform, making this almost certainly the pre-season City Series at Braves Field (Society for American Baseball Research, 2016).
Accession #:: 08_06_036638

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