Opossum presented by President Herbert Hoover to Hyattsville High School baseball team after their opossum mascot wandered away, May 1929

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President Hoover presents oppossum to boy's baseball team as mascot. President Hoover solved the dilemma the Hyattsville High School baseball team found themselves in when their oppossum mascot strayed away. The Chief Executive directed that an oppossum that picked the White House for a home be turned over to the boys to replace their lost mascot. Robert and William Robinson, captain of the team, are shown leaving the White House with their new mascot

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Size: 5599px × 6844px
Photo credit: © Niday Picture Library / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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