• President Truman Shakes Hands with a Fan at Senators Game
    Lynn Charles Skeels
    sports
    Washington, D.C.
    Presidential Visit
    This photograph shows President Harry S. Truman shaking hands with a fan at a Washington Senators baseball game on September 8, 1945. The president threw the opening pitch at the match between the Senators and the St. Louis Browns, who hailed from his home state of Missouri. Naval officer and military adviser Admiral William D. Leahy is pictured seated near the president.