Red Sox in action

Title:: Red Sox in action
Description:: Boston Red Sox base runner Jimmy Piersall (#37) crosses home plate in front of Chicago White Sox catcher Sherm Lollar (#10) and is greeted by a pair of unknown Red Sox teammates after hitting a solo home run in the fifth inning against the Chicago White Sox on August 4, 1955 at Fenway Park.
Photographer:: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:: August 4, 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.)
Piersall, Jimmy
Chicago White Sox (Baseball team)
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:/50959/5h73sj581
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: Red Sox in action, August 1955
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.
Accession #:: 08_06_017341

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