[Photograph]: Black Little League Baseball Players

[Goshen, New York?]: John Bruen, Sr. 1958.

Price: $375.00

Hardcover. Gelatin silver photograph. Image size approximately 6" x 4½". Mounted in a Kodak folding sleeve. Fine. A well-composed image of four young boys in baseball (Little League?) uniforms: three that read "Yankees" one that reads "Red Sox."The photographer, John Bruen, Sr., who had played semi-pro baseball in his youth, was the grandson of enslaved persons, and lived in Goshen his entire life as a railroad worker, Civil Rights activist, and later a newspaper columnist. A handsome image.

Item #465938

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Item #465938 [Photograph]: Black Little League Baseball Players. John BRUEN, Sr.