DescriptionBlack-and-white photo of the cake cutting ceremony for Baseball Centennial Celebration, Hoboken, June 19, 1946. 8" x 10" modern copy print, circa 1996. Reverse is blank. (This item is from records compiled for and used in preparation of activities for Hoboken Baseball Day 1996, the 150th anniversary of a noted game played in Hoboken.) A typical posed publicity photograph. Event was held at Meyers Hotel, Hoboken. Cake was donated by General Foods Corporation, the parent of Maxwell House Coffee; its Hoboken factory was on the site of the former Elysian Fields where the 1846 game being commemorated was played. Left to right: Albert B. "Happy" Chandler (holding knife; Commissioner of Baseball). Gracie Allen (of Burns and Allen comedy team, see next). George Burns (Burns and his wife Gracie Allen were famous stage, radio and film entertainers; soon to be hosts of a radio program sponsored by Maxwell House Coffee; in a few years they would have a successful television series). Ford Frick (President of the National League and successor to Frick as Commissioner in 1951). Al Schacht (former major league baseball player - known as the "Clown Prince" of the Washington Senators; then a N.Y. restauranteur and baseball entertainer).