Gresham Giants Baseball Team, Seated
by Gresham Giants 1910s
Photograph of the Gresham Giants baseball team, in uniform and sitting on the ground. Charles Lundberg is identified as the player in the front row on the far right. The manager, wearing a white shirt in the back row, is notably not Joe Patenaude, who is included in other team photos in the GHS collection, indicating that this was likely taken in the mid- to late 1910s, after his tenure.
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- Description
- Photograph of the Gresham Giants baseball team, in uniform and sitting on the ground. Charles Lundberg is identified as the player in the front row on the far right. The manager, wearing a white shirt in the back row, is notably not Joe Patenaude, who is included in other team photos in the GHS collection, indicating that this was likely taken in the mid- to late 1910s, after his tenure.
- Provenance
- Note on the back says it was donated by Walt Lundberg, 5/18/1986. Charles Lundberg was his uncle. The Gresham Giants baseball team was formed around 1901 and lasted through 1920, due to conflicts between Sunday games and church services. It was semiprofessional by 1908, and part of an inter-city league that included Montavilla, Oregon City, Portland, and other nearby communities. Jimmy Claxton, the first Black player to break the professional baseball color line, was briefly signed to the team in 1915/16, but left prior to the start of the season.
- Date
- 1910s
- Creator
- Gresham Giants
- Subject
- Baseball
- Baseball players
- Sports
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Identifier
- ghs1423
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Type
- StillImage
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
