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Title: White Sox Ball Park, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
Creator: Haley, George W., 1879-1963
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
1940
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Customers and vendors outside the White Sox baseball park in Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, California. A food truck says "Tamales" and people are seen eating and drinking from bottles. Sign on the stadium says "Winter League grand opening Oct. 9th.1939. Home of the Colored Elite Giants, White Sox Park."
Title devised by cataloger; date supplied by cataloger based on 1940 license plate at right in image. The White Sox (or Anderson) Ball Park, in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles hosted Negro Leagues baseball games and interracial games as part of the California Winter League. Doc Anderson, an African-American entrepreneur, built the 3,500 seat park so that Los Angeles' best African-American baseball players would have a proper place to play. Source: Gay, Timothy M. "Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball" (2010).
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.9 x 12.5 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
487949
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/17582
Subject: Baseball
Crowds
Sports facilities
Vending stands
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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