New wartime baseball. Cork-cushioned centers in baseballs--official in major leagues for more than a decade--are war-taboo. Rubber-cushioned centers, "borrowed" from stopped golf ball production, offer temporary relief. Left: cork-type ball; right; new baseball with rubber center
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Photographed by Albert Freeman, William Perlitch or Roger Smith.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 41, frame 381.
Tags
Date
01/01/1943
Location
united states
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain