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Robert 'Bob' Buhl and Family

Date: 08 15 1956
Description: Milwaukee Braves player Robert 'Bob' Buhl pictured at home with his family.
Photograph

Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from road of students and teachers posing in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. Some of the boys wear baseball gloves. A hill rises in the ba...
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A Tribute to Madison Dads on Fathers' Day

Date: 06 16 1953
Description: A photographic tribute to Madison dads on Fathers' Day includes a photograph of Raymond P. Sweeney and his five sons dressed in baseball uniforms. Pictured...
Postcard

Fletcher's Park

Date: 1900
Description: View from center field of baseball game being played in Fletcher's Park. A group of spectators are sitting under a covered grandstand on the right. Caption...
Photograph

Stay-At-Home Mothers

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Dorothy Lutey shows her son Craig, age 9, how to swing a baseball bat. The photograph was taken for a Mother's Day article featuring the many roles perform...
Photograph

Madison Boys Baseball Program

Date: 07 16 1956
Description: A group of rooters attends a Madison Boys Baseball Program game.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Features

Date: 1942
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with highlights of the boys summer camp at Camp America Williams: "backwards" day, with a line of boys dr...
Photograph

Midget Baseball Leagues

Date: 08 1958
Description: Group portrait of the Rentschler team of the West Midget Midvale No. 2 baseball league. Left to right front row: Randy Wise, Mike Plautz, Tommy Eisele, St...
Photograph

Midget Baseball Leagues

Date: 08 1958
Description: Group portrait of Badeau Plumbing's Midget baseball team, winners of the East Midget Central No. 3 championship. Batboy seated in front: Steve Badeau. Knee...
Photograph

Firemen Treat Handicapped Children to Braves Game

Date: 08 10 1960
Description: Madison firemen from Station No. 3 at 1217 Williamson Street, along with their wives, took 32 handicapped children to the Braves-Los Angeles baseball game ...
Photograph

Outdoor Group Portrait of European American Children

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of three children, two of them posing standing and one child lying down. One child is wearing what may be a catcher's mask, and the ...
Postcard

Young Baseball Player

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Description: A young baseball player poses outside the porch of his S. Sixth St. Walker's Point neighborhood home. He is wearing a baseball uniform with cap, and is hol...
Photograph

Vel Phillips Pitching

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Description: View from behind the catcher towards Vel Phillips throwing a baseball pitch. She is wearing a sweatshirt that reads "Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Counci...
Photograph

Vel Phillips Pitching

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, throws a pitch. A batter, catcher, and umpire are in the foreground. Two unide...
Photograph

Vel Phillips Pitching

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Description: View from behind catcher towards Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, throwing a pitch to the catcher, who is stand...
Photograph

Vel Phillips Playing Baseball

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, handing a baseball to an unidentified young man wearing a jacket. Two unidenti...
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Vel Phillips Throwing a Baseball

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, throwing a baseball. Two unidentified children stand in the field behind Vel. ...
Photograph

Vel Phillips Pitching Baseball

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Description: View from behind batter and umpire of Vel Phillips pitching a baseball. She is wearing a Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt. There are three unidenti...
Photograph

Vel Phillips Pitching a Baseball

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a baseball glove, hat and a sweatshirt that reads "Milwaukee Commando NAACP Youth Council" pitching a baseball. In the background sta...
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Laurie Peterson with Baseball Glove

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Description: Laurie Peterson standing indoors gazing through an open doorway, and holding a baseball and baseball glove.

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