Newsreel clip on 17-year-old Ed Cereghino accepting a $50,000 bonus to sign a contract with the New York Yankees organization in 1951. View of Cereghino signing the contract with Yankee scout Joe Devine (in suit) and Cereghino's parents watching. Cereghino tosses a baseball with his father over a fence with barbed wire. Announcer notes Cereghino will be joining the Yankees' minor-league club in San Francisco, the Seals, managed by former National League batting champion Lefty O'Doul, seen at right. Cereghino pitches his first game for the Seals with his parents in the stands. He loses, but gets a kiss from his mother afterward. (Note: Cereghino would pitch eight years in the minor leagues but never make to the Yankees or any other major league club.)
240 Naval Reserve Mid-Shipmen fight it out for possession of a giant ball in Little Creek, Virginia. They rough it out with all out scramble on the playing field. It's a battle all the way. The words 'Recreational Division U.S. Naval Amphibious base Little Creek VA' are visible on the ball.
View of the Galveston Habor,Texas,Gulf of Mexico. African American workers carry cotton and put them onto conveyer belts to load into ships. 1935
View of a light house and flags of Spain, Britain, France, and the U.S. confederate flag flying beneath the American flag at Pensacola, Florida. Aerial view of Pensacola Florida harbor areas. At a dock, workers unload fish from the fishing boat named Francis Taylor at the harbor.
The Grand (paddle wheel driven river boat) in the Mississippi River loaded with cargo of cotton at Memphis, Tennessee. African American workers unload cotton shipment and place them in order at dock side.
Geographical map depicts New Orleans as a world port. Ocean going vessels connect New Orleans with the ports of the world. Freight trains are loaded on ships and carried to Cuba. Workers unload bunches of banana from the ship through conveyor belts. Workers unloading sacks of grain from the ship. 1929.
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