Baseball

Harry S. Truman stands in his Yankee Stadium box today between homerun sluggers Roger Maris, left, and Mickey Mantle. Going into the game against the Washington Senators, which Truman viewed, Maris had 53 homeruns and Mantle, 50, in their quest for a new season record. From: Houston Post.

Forester Lyle Watts, front row left, and fellow members of the Tofte-Schroeder, Minnesota baseball team in Superior National Forest.

E. Clifton Daniel, Jr. (far right) sits in the New York Yankees' locker room in St. Petersburg, Florida, and interviews (from left to right) Joseph Durso, New York Times sports reporter; Joseph M. Sheehan, Assistant Sports Editor; and Tom Seaver, Mets' pitcher. The interview was for Daniel's television show, "News in Perspective."

Former First Lady Bess Truman and her daughter, Margaret, cast two votes for some lucky major leaguers for the All Star baseball game July 14th in Cincinnati. They stopped at the ballot box to drop their ballots as they entered Griffith Stadium tonight to see the Washington Senators and the St. Louis Browns play. Former President Truman did not accompany them. From: Houston Post.

Kansas City, Missouri. Raymond Dumont (left), President of the National Baseball Congress, whose headquarters are in Wichita, Kansas, presents a plaque for "recognition for participation in successful opening of the 1953 nation-wide sandlot season," to Harry Truman(right), Ex-President of the U.S. The presentation was made in Truman's downtown Federal Reserve Bank office in Kansas City this afternoon. Photo is airbrushed. From: Houston Post.

New York Yankees baseball player Mickey Mantle (kneeling) poses for a photograph with William Daniel (standing behind fence, left) his brother, Clifton Daniel (behind fence, fourth from left) and their father, E. Clifton Daniel (behind fence, third from left). The other unidentified boys are friends of William Daniel who were invited to help celebrate William's birthday.

New York Yankee baseball player Mickey Mantle shakes hands with Clifton Truman Daniel while his father, E. Clifton Daniel (standing behind fence, left) looks on. Standing next to E. Clifton Daniel is his son, William Daniel, whose birthday was being celebrated by a trip to the ball game in Yankee Stadium, New York Two unidentified friends are also pictured.

New York Yankee baseball player Mickey Mantle (kneeling) poses for a photograph with William Daniel (behind fence, left), his brother, Clifton Truman Daniel (behind fence, fourth from left)and their father E. Clifton Daniel (behind fence, third from left). Four unidentified friends of the Daniels, who were invited to celebrate William's birthday, are also pictured. The picture was taken at Yankee Stadium, New York, New York.

E. Clifton Daniel (right) sits with his son William Wallace Daniel in the Mets General Manager's box at Shea Stadium.

This is a photograph of a baseball game played while other soldiers look on. The location is unknown, and all are unidentified. The photograph is part of a collection belonging to Harry S Truman from the time he spent in France during World War I.