Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›The 1971 baseball season gets underway 4/5 as Army M.Sgt. Daniel I. Pitzer tosses out the first ball with his 14-year-old son Donald, left, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, 2nd. from left, and Washington Senators owner Bob Short, right, watch. Pitzer, a former POW, was named to perform the ceremony after President Nixon could not make it. Washington faces Oakland in the opener.
The 1971 baseball season gets underway 4/5 as Army M.Sgt. Daniel I. Pitzer tosses out the first ball with his 14-year-old son Donald, left, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, 2nd. from left, and Washington Senators owner Bob Short, right, watch. Pitzer, a former POW, was named to perform the ceremony after President Nixon could not make it. Washington faces Oakland in the opener.
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The 1971 baseball season gets underway 4/5 as Army M.Sgt. Daniel I. Pitzer tosses out the first ball with his 14-year-old son Donald, left, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, 2nd. from left, and Washington Senators owner Bob Short, right, watch. Pitzer, a former POW, was named to perform the ceremony after President Nixon could not make it. Washington faces Oakland in the opener.

United Press International · [ca. April 1971]

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