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Title: American Legion Basketball Team
Creator: Burton Hodson
Date Created and/or Issued: 1922
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Photographs
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: This circa-1922 photograph shows Sacramento's Pacific Coast Championship American Legion basketball team. Standing at left is future Sacramento Solon and Washington Senator Earl McNeely. McNeely, playing guard for the American Legion team, was considered by many to be the Capital City's best athlete of the 1920s. The photograph also includes Joe Mahoney and Frank Assalena.
Type: image
Identifier: 1154
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/2146
Subject: Basketball
Portraits
Veterans' Groups
Athletics
Uniforms
Source: Sacramento Room Photograph Collection

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