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Indianapolis Clowns Baseball Team

1958

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Indianapolis Clowns Baseball Team
  • Title
  • Indianapolis Clowns Baseball Team
  • Creator
  • Hightower, Frank R., Sr.
  • Date
  • 1958
  • Identifier
  • 20240909-frh-0033
  • Source Identifier
  • 202314.19.10.3.010
  • Description
  • Crowds at the Indianapolis Clowns baseball game hosted at Forbes Field. The Indianapolis Clowns were the longest lived team in the Negro American League, lasting from 1930 to 1989. The Clowns hold the distinction of being the first pro-baseball team to accept female members, "Toni" Stone (in 1953), Mamie "Peanut" Johnson (in 1954), and Connie Morgan (in 1954). Big names including Hank Aaron, "Goose" Tatum, and Paul Casanova began their careers with the team.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Persons
    African Americans
    Spectators
    Baseball fields
    Stadiums
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Frank Russell Hightower Photograph Collection, 1940-1990
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Frank Russell Hightower Photograph Collection
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Hightower, Frank R.
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  • Rights Holder
  • Hightower, Frank R.