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