Collection The Presidents
Biographies & Portraits
President Hoover and Baseball
- Photographer
- Herbert A. French
- Date of Work
- May 13, 1922
- Medium
- Photo
- Credit
- Library of Congress
President Hoover and Baseball
Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, tosses a baseball at the opening of a “sandlot world series” in Washington, D.C., May 5, 1922.
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