Summary

Detroit Tigers player Hank Greenberg reports to draft under the new Selective Training and Service Act of 1940

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # C823
Clip SR005468_02_02.mov
Date 05/07/1941
Title Detroit Tigers player Hank Greenberg reports to draft under the new Selective Training and Service Act of 1940
Description In the Detroit Tigers locker room, Hank Greenberg (wearing a suit) gives his baseball uniform to Manager Del Baker and they shake hands / Greenberg enters the induction center, shaking hands with admirers and turning to pose for the camera (sign over door "US Army Induction Center"); he waves and enters / He leans to sign a document as a uniformed soldier looks on / With an identifying tag around his neck, he is fingerprinted / He and others, with hands upraised, take oath
Personality Hank Greenberg, Del Baker
Country United States
Province/State Michigan
City Detroit

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