Connie Mack and George Cohan, North Brookfield

Title:: Connie Mack and George Cohan, North Brookfield
Description:: Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack and composer George M. Cohan visit home in Brookfield, Mass.
Photographer:: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:: July 1934
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Glass negatives
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Leslie Jones Collection
Series:: Sports: Identified [Baseball]
Subjects:: Baseball
Crowds
Houses
Mack, Connie, 1862-1956
Cohan, George M. (George Michael), 1878-1942
Extent:: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/b5644z54n
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: Connie Mack and George Cohan, North Brookfield, n.d.
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.
At the July All-Star break in 1934, Mack took his Athletics team to his birthplace of North Brookfield, Mass. for an exhibition game against a local semi-pro team. Cohan wrote a song about Mack and a large ceremony was held (Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011).
Accession #:: 08_06_010913

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