Women Baseball Players in Cuba photograph

Date1947

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of a group of Grand Rapids Chicks players, Alma Ziegler, Philomena Gianfrancisco Zale, Ernestine Petras, Ruth "Tex" Lessing, Audrey Haine Daniels, and an unidentified player with her back to the camera, standing on a hotel balcony during spring training in Cuba in 1947. Ernestine Petras is taking drinks out of a basket at the end of a pulley system.

Object numberBL-1998-03272-140

Subject All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Subject Ziegler, Alma, 1918-2005

Subject Grand Rapids Chicks (Baseball team)

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 084 Connie Wisniewski photographic materials

Dimensions10 x 8 in.

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