In 1952, the Braves' final season in Boston, owner Lou Perini came up with what was then a novel, if not pioneering concept: a baseball show on televison. WNAC-TV carried a weekly 15-minute show called, reasonably enough, "Baseball In Your Living Room," featuring then-manager Tommy Holmes and members of the Braves as they taught baseball fundamentals.
The shows began during spring training, and a Lexibell folder revealed two publicity photos tied around the show.
The first shows coach Johnny Cooney (left) talking outfield fundamentals to Bill Bruton, Pete Whisenant and Bob Thorpe. What makes the photo such a novelty is that Bruton never played for the Boston Braves; he was sent down to Class AAA Milwaukee, then broke in the following season with the newly relocated Milwaukee Braves.
The second photo includes, left to right, George Crowe, Gene Conley, rookie third baseman Eddie Mathews, manager Tommy Holmes, Jim Solt and Leo Righetti. Solt was a career minor league catcher who was in the Braves' system from 1951-58. Righetti, father of future Yankee pitcher Dave Righetti, had signed with the Braves as a minor league free agent for 1952, but when told at the end of camp he would be returned to AAA, he threw a chair at a Braves official and was instead released!