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Workers Relaxing Outside Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: Workers relaxing outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. One group is crowded around a stage listening to a band while others are playing baseba...
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Breese Stevens Field

Date: 05 13 1931
Description: Elevated view of the Breese Stevens Athletic Field baseball diamond illuminated at night.
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Breese Stevens Field

Date: 05 13 1931
Description: Elevated view of Breese Stevens Athletic Field illuminated at night, with the Madison Blues, Eddie Lenahan, manager, practicing baseball. Alternate view.
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Aerial View of Town

Date: 1957
Description: Aerial view including many buildings and a baseball diamond.
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West High School Baseball Players

Date: 04 01 1955
Description: Don Woody, catcher, and Dave Baskerville, batter, members of the West High School baseball team. There is a lake in the background.
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Lew Burdette's Decorated Home

Date: 10 1957
Description: Crowd in front of the home of Lew Burdette after the Milwaukee Braves defeated the New York Yankees to win the 1957 World Series. Pitcher Burdette won thr...
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Camp Randall and Student Housing

Date: 1945
Description: Aerial view of married student housing located next to the baseball field near Camp Randall stadium and the Field House.
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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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University of Wisconsin-Madison Science Hall

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior view across field of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Science Hall. A group of men appear to be playing baseball on the open lawn along Langdon...
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Aerial View of Middleton

Date: 1955
Description: An aerial view of Middleton. In the foreground is a baseball field, and beyond are houses, woods, fields, and Lake Mendota.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Vel Phillips at Bat

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Description: Vel Phillips grips the bat and ducks as the ball is pitched at a baseball game. The catcher is on the right. Chain link fencing, a bicycle and a residentia...
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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 ...
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We Saw You . . . Playing Boys Baseball

Date: 06 1954
Description: A youth baseball player awaits the pitch. Shown (left to right) are: catcher Ronnie Millard and batter Dean Adams.
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"Play Ball" Echoes Through City

Date: 06 20 1955
Description: Baseball players from the Dairy Queen team wait their turn at bat. Shown left to right are: Robert Larson, Neal Darazio, and Peter Mery.
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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...
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Entertaining at Villa Louis

Date: 1898
Description: Dousman family entertaining house guests on the lawn at Villa Louis. A table and chairs are set up on the grass and several of the group are holding baseba...
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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...

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