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Title: Frank "Cap" Dillon
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1899-1989.; Used in the Exhibit: L.A. Baseball: From the Pacific Coast League to the Major Leagues
Photograph caption dated September 14, 1931 reads, "Funeral arrangements today were completed for 'Cap' Dillon, highly colorful, former manager of the Angels and one of the best-known characters in coast baseball. Services will be held tomorrow in the Wee Kirk of the Heather at Forest Lawn. 'Cap' passed away Saturday night after a lingering illness."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 18 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049009
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 81
CARL0000053059
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17453
Subject: Dillon, Frank Edward
Dillon, Frank Edward--Death and burial
Wrigley Field (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Angels (Baseball team)
Baseball managers--United States
Baseball players--United States
South Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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