President Truman throwing out first ball at Major League Baseball game, Washington, D. C., September 1945

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Photograph. U.S. President Harry S. Truman opening Major League Baseball game in Washington, D. C. Official Caption: "Rome. 9/21/45. U.S. President Harry S. Truman Opens Major League Baseball Game. U.S. President Harry S. Truman completes his throw in, opening a major league baseball game played in the U.S. capital Sept. 8, 1945, between the Washington team, nicknamed the Senators, and the St. Louis Browns. It is traditional for U.S. presidents to throw out the first ball at the opening game of the baseball season. Seated next to the Present are Mrs. Truman (left) and U.S. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (right), Chief of Staff to President Truman. The Washington Senators won by a score of 4 - 1. St. Louis is a major city of Missouri, President Truman's home state. PHOTO THROUGH U.S.I.S. ROME (D list out) 43928-PHE." Washington, D.C. 8 September 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.548
Date: 
09/08/1945
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Presidents--American--District of Columbia
Presidents' spouses--American--District of Columbia
Military officers--American--District of Columbia
Baseball--District of Columbia
Clothing & dress--District of Columbia
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
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District of Columbia
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38.833
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-77.000
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Presidents--American--District of Columbia
Presidents' spouses--American--District of Columbia
Military officers--American--District of Columbia
Baseball--District of Columbia
Clothing & dress--District of Columbia