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Baseball Players
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Group portrait of baseball players, wearing jerseys from Madison collegiate and amateur teams including the Badgers, Crescents and Silver Lake. The players are under a tent provided by the Madison Tent and Awning Company owned by W.G. Kropf of Madison, Wisconsin. One man is holding a bat, and the others are holding mitts.
circa 1910-1919
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