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Charley "Red" Ruffing, New York Yankees pitcher, and his wife, Pauline Ruffing, seated on their sofa, Long Beach, 1939

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Title: Charley "Red" Ruffing, New York Yankees pitcher, and his wife, Pauline Ruffing, seated on their sofa, Long Beach, 1939
Contributor: Herod, Jack, b. ca. 1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa January 24, 1939]
1939-01-24
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photographs accompany "Red Ruffing Denies He's in Holdout Class," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan 1939: A9.
Charles "Red" Ruffing and his wife, Pauline Ruffing (née Pauline Mulholland) sit with their bodies facing each other on their sofa in their Long Beach home. They are both looking off to the photo's right, so Pauline is looking over her left shoulder. His left and her right arm are crossed over the sofa back. He wears a long-sleeved button down collared shirt, and slacks, and she wears a fringed dark dress with strappy heeled shoes. On the back of a sofa is a square banner with an stars and stripes shield over a baseball.
This photograph appears in a photo spread: "Introducing the Best Pitcher in Southern California--Yankee Red Ruffing," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan 1939: A9.
Caption on decorative blanket on sofa: ALL AMERICAN
Text from negative sleeve: 15614. Mr & Mrs Charles Ruffing. Sports. (Yankees Pitcher?)
Text accompanying photograph in newspaper: Charley (Red) Ruffing who has won 61 games and lost 26 for the Yanks the past three seasons, is shown with Mrs. Ruffing at their new home in Long Beach.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14830
ark:/21198/zz002j8gx1
Language: English
Subject: Spouses--California
Sofas
Pitchers (Baseball)
Baseball players--California--Long Beach
Ruffing, Charley, 1905-1986
New York Yankees (Baseball team)
Ruffing, Pauline (Pauline Marie), 1912-1996
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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