Caught baseball from 12 story roof, 1954

Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gaze. Date: 1954-01-09. Reporter: Gaze. Assignment: Baseball from 12-story. 47/48: Mrs. Ruth Adamson, 61, eight times a grandmother, who played for the Boston Bloomer Girls team shortly after the turn of the century, triumphantly displays baseball which she caught after it was dropped from the roof of the 12-story Bay Cities building in Santa Monica this afternoon. The building is in the background. 46: Mrs. Ruth Adamson, 61, a grandmother, is congratulated by her son, Harry, after she caught a baseball dropped from roof of 12-story Bay Cities building, (background) in Santa Monica this afternoon. 45: Mary Kathleen Adamson, 14, gives congratulatory hug to her grandmother, Mrs. Ruth Adamson, 61, after latter caught baseball dropped from 12-story Bay Cities building, Santa Monica, this afternoon".

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