image: baseball centennial cake cutting ceremony, June 19, 1946
Name/Title
B+W photo of cake cutting ceremony for Baseball Centennial Celebration, Hoboken, June 19, 1946.
Entry/Object ID
2014.019.0007
Description
Black-and-white photo of the cake cutting ceremony for Baseball Centennial Celebration, Hoboken, June 19, 1946.
8" x 10" modern copy print, circa 1996. Reverse is blank. (This item is from records compiled for and used in preparation of activities for Hoboken Baseball Day 1996, the 150th anniversary of a noted game played in Hoboken.) A typical posed publicity photograph.
Event was held at Meyers Hotel, Hoboken. Cake was donated by General Foods Corporation, the parent of Maxwell House Coffee; its Hoboken factory was on the site of the former Elysian Fields where the 1846 game being commemorated was played.
Left to right:
Albert B. "Happy" Chandler (holding knife; Commissioner of Baseball).
Gracie Allen (of Burns and Allen comedy team, see next).
George Burns (Burns and his wife Gracie Allen were famous stage, radio and film entertainers; soon to be hosts of a radio program sponsored by Maxwell House Coffee; in a few years they would have a successful television series).
Ford Frick (President of the National League and successor to Frick as Commissioner in 1951).
Al Schacht (former major league baseball player - known as the "Clown Prince" of the Washington Senators; then a N.Y. restauranteur and baseball entertainer).
Acquisition
Accession
2014.019
Source or Donor
Amabile, Anthony A.
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Gift of Anthony A. Amabile.
Made/Created
Artist
n/a
Date made
1946
Place
Location
Hoboken
Dimensions
Height
8 in
Width
10 in
General Notes
Note
Original or Copy: Copy
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2014-04-11
