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-0036
  • Source Identifier
  • 202314.19.11.2.001
  • Description
  • Indianapolis Clowns baseball players performing at the 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
    Baseball players
    African American baseball players
    Acrobatics
    Folding chairs
    Chairs
    Indianapolis Clowns (Baseball team)
  • 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.