Boston Red Sox get ready to practice at baseball spring training, March 1950. Players on field with future Hall of Fame manager Joe McCarthy in center. Close up of McCarthy. Players warm up throwing arms. Close up shots of pitchers Mickey McDermott (#19) and Ellis Kinder (#16). Shot of backup outfielder Tom Wright (#28). Future Hall of Fame second baseman Bobby Doerr (#1) hits a single and runs to first. Baseball legend Ted Williams quickly steps into batters box, waits for a pitch, hits the ball and smiles. (Note: There is no indication where film is taken, but Red Sox at the time trained in Sarasota Florida.)
Players on St. Louis Browns charge onto the field at baseball spring training, March 1950. Close up of manager Zack Taylor. Shots of pitchers warming up: #28 Dick Starr, #30 Bill Kennedy, #23 Cliff Fannin. Shot of catchers Les Moss (L) and Sherm Lollar putting on face masks. Pitcher Ed Albrecht throws. Hank Arft swings at pitch. Unknown player takes swing. Long shot of field from behind home plate. (Note: There is no indication where this footage was shot but the Browns trained in Burbank California that year.)
Newsreel clip shows the Philadelphia Phillies at baseball spring training, March 1950. This Phillies team, nicknamed the "Whiz Kids," would win baseball's National League pennant that year. Clip opens with players running onto field under sign reading "Home of the Fightin' Phillies." Close up shot of manager Eddie Sawyer. Players warm up throwing arms. Shots of pitchers including #34 Russ Myer, #28 Curt Simmons and #20 Hank Borowy. Shot of four Phillies catchers. Shots of #4 Eddie Waitkus working out at first base. Phillies batters take swings, including #12 Bill Nicholson. (Note: There is no indication where footage was filmed but Phillies trained that year in Clearwater Florida.)
Members of the Detroit Tigers gather for baseball spring training, March 1950. Close up of Tigers manager Red Rolfe. Players warm up throwing arms. Shots of three pitchers: #22 Virgil Trucks, #12 Art Houtteman, and #11 Dizzy Trout. Players field baseballs. Close ups of outfielders Charlie Keller and Dick Kryhoski. Outfielder Vic Wertz takes practice swing. Pitcher Ted Gray throws. First baseman Aaron Robinson takes a swing. (Note: There is no indication where this footage was filmed but Tigers trained that year in Lakeland Florida.)
Scene of steam locomotive starting to move. Engineer in the locomotive cab. Franklin D Roosevelt's Presidential election campaign. A railroad train pulls up at a station in Kentucky. Governor of New York, Franklin D Roosevelt addresses a public meeting in Topeka, Kansas,about the new deal and its help for farmers. His train arrives in Seattle and a large crowd welcomes him at the rail road station. A train moves over a bridge and Roosevelt arrives in Springfield, Georgia to campaign for the Presidential elections. He receives a warm welcome in Georgia.
Brief aerial view of 8200 block of Georgia Ave., Silver Spring MD. Pedestrians cross the street in front of the J.C. Penney Co. department store at 8650 Colesville Rd. Silver Spring, MD 20910. A man parks his 1965 Chevy Bel Air station wagon in front of a building. Close up of keys left in ignition after parking car. An alley filled with trash in an urban slum neighborhood. Trash and a child's tricycle in a vacant lot. Policemen writing reports, papers, and complaints for record keeping. A policeman searches through index cards in the Type of Crime File case file cabinet. View of a Police Beat Location map color-coded according to level of police activity. A policeman uses a spot map. A bar chart depicting types of crimes committed from April to June. Police chief presents during a community group meeting. A man uses a typewriter. A policeman writes a report. Operator pressing a button on an console controlling two IBM 729 Magnetic Tape Units. Policemen leave precinct on L Street in Washington D.C. precinct to begin their patrols. A policeman writes on his notebook while holding a card from the arrest index file. Policeman answers call. A police officer inside a grocery store. Policeman keeps writing notes in a ledger.
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