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Photograph caption dated June 22, 1957 reads "Three Los Angeles players who are doing their best to make the Los Angeles baseball club less erratic as they try again in a single game today and a doubleheader tomorrow with the Sacramento Solons at Wrigley Field. At the top is big Steve Bilko, the home run specialist, while center is bespectacled Jim Baxes, third baseman. Below is El Tappe [pictured], the catcher."
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