Play at the plate, Fenway Park

Title:: Play at the plate, Fenway Park
Description:: Unknown Boston Red Sox base runner slides toward home plate in front of unknown Cleveland Indians catcher while unknown umpire looks on at Fenway Park.
Photographer:: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:: [ca. 1937–1938]
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
Cleveland Indians (Baseball team)
Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 3 1/8 x 4 1/4 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/nz807c902
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: Play at the plate, Fenway Park, ca. 1940
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.
Red Sox base runner is most likely Jimmie Foxx and Cleveland catcher is either Frankie Pytlak (#8 in 1937) or Rollie Hemsley (#9 in 1938) (Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011).
Accession #:: 08_06_027401

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