When holidays meant ball games

Title:: When holidays meant ball games
Description:: New Bedford, Massachusetts, photograph taken circa 1895 at Fort Phoenix, Fairhaven, of a group baseball players, "South Enders," who claimed championship for New Bedford's "Ward Six." In the photograph are front row, left to right: Oscar Peirce, John Gilson, Edward Lawrence, Curley Leary, Willie Robinson, and Joe Fernandes; middle row, left to right: Venture Noyer, Manny King, William Bradley, Charley A. Paul, Mike McCarthy, Sergeant Harry Rickerson, Richard Frances, Frank Lewis, and Henry Chase; back row, left to right: John Brodbent, Phil Lawrence, Dan Nelson, Jack Fagan, George Bowman, ____ , ____ and John Paul. The two boys in the middle row are not identified, and the woman on the extreme right in the middle row is also not identified.
Date:: [ca. 1925–1926]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Rotogravures
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Location:: New Bedford Free Public Library
309:U7:SH12, Rotogravure Collection Box 9, Folder 6 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):: Rotogravure Collection
Subjects:: Baseball
Places:: Massachusetts > Bristol (county) > Fairhaven
Extent:: 1 photograph : rotogravure print on card mount ; mount 13 x 18 cm
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