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Pennsylvania Governor John K. Tener at Ebbets Field (baseball)
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Photo shows Governor of Pennsylvania John Kinley Tener (1863-1946), throwing out the first ball in the first game of the season at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, New York, April 14, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010 and New York Times, April 15, 1914)
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Gov. Tener, Bklyn throwing out 1st ball.
Corrected title based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Date from similar Bain negative: LC-B2-3027-11.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Additional information about this photograph might be available through the Flickr Commons project at library_of_congress/5169605224
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