John F. Fitzgerald throws out the first ball of the season at the Huntington Avenue Grounds
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

John F. Fitzgerald throws out the first ball of the season at the Huntington Avenue Grounds

[ca. 1910]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Taken during one of Fitzgerald's terms as Mayor of Boston (1906-1907; 1910-1911), Fitzgerald's daughter Rose is to the right looking up at her father. Rose would marry Joseph Kennedy and become matriarch of an American political dynasty.

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