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Description
Advertising brochure seeking bookings for the western Canada leg of a barnstorming tour of the San Francisco Sea Lions Baseball Club. Featured in the brochure is "Tony" (ie: Toni) Lyle Stone, who became first woman to play professional baseball full-time for the Indianapolis Clowns (1953) in the previously all-male Negro leagues. This also made her the first woman to play as a regular on an American big-league professional baseball team. Also featured is Sammy Workman, a quadruple amputee who put on exhibitions of his hitting, batting, catching, and base sliding skills at the games. Includes action photographs of several of the other players as well Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Text "The San Francisco Sea Lions baseball club, Negro Champions of the Pacific coast and a most attractive and entertaining road exhibition club, would like to play in your city." "For Canadian dates, write, phone or wire The Continental Booking Agency, Box 263 Winkler, Manitoba -- Phone Bus. 142, Res. 132"--Cover [San Francisco] :, San Francisco Sea Lions Baseball Club Winkler, Manitoba :, The Continental Booking Agency
Type
text
Format
1 sheet (6 pages) : Illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm x 46 cm, folded to 20 x 16 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb36949191
Language
English
Subject
Women baseball players Portraits Baseball teams Exhibition catalogs African Americans Baseball Baseball players African American baseball players Baseball players with disabilities San Francisco Sea Lions (Baseball team) San Francisco (California) Canada Stone, Toni, 1921-1996
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