Prison Baseball Team, Illinois State Prison, Joliet

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Title

Prison Baseball Team, Illinois State Prison, Joliet

Subject

Illinois State Penitentiary (Joliet, Ill.)
Prisoners
Baseball
Baseball teams

Description

Members of the prison baseball team pose for a team picture. By the 1920s, intramural baseball was a normal feature of inmate life in prisons across the country. Selected players, like these Joliet inmates, manned institutional teams that played against other prison teams as well as against visiting minor league clubs.

Publisher

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Date

n.d.

Format

jpg

Language

en

Identifier

400025
Illinois State Prison, Joliet

Original Format

studio print
b&w
1

Physical Dimensions

20 x 25 cm