Summary

First 1934 home baseball games for Washington Senators and New York Yankees

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # PSN 3767
Clip SR001273_04_01.mov
Title First 1934 home baseball games for Washington Senators and New York Yankees
Description Title card: "F. D.'s Pitching Arm OK - Baseball stars meet some leading gentlemen high in the governing business! The lineup: Roosevelt, Ruth, Garner, Gehrig and LaGuardia" / US Vice President John Nance Garner walks with man in Native American costume as he leads teams onto field prior to the Washington Senators-Boston Red Sox game at Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC / WS teams' players and marching band walk on field / US President Franklin Roosevelt prepares to throw first pitch, cracks quip, throws ball, laughs / WS game on rain-dampened field / New York, NY, same day: photographers shoot photos of New York Yankees' Babe Ruth and Philadelphia Athletics' player Jimmie Foxx / Ruth sits with wife Claire and daughter, Julia, as daughter, Dorothy, leans over to kiss his cheek / photographers and cameramen record NY Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's ceremonial first pitch from the mound; VO cheers / Ruth hits a single / fans rise for standing ovation; VO cheers / Athletics' pitcher Johnny Marcum winds up, pitches / Yankees' Lou Gehrig hits, is called out at second base
Personality John Nance Garner, Franklin D Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Claire Ruth, Fiorello LaGuardia, Lou Gehrig, Johnny Marcum, Jimmie Foxx, Julia Ruth, Dorothy Ruth
Country United States
City Washington DC

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