Sheriff Gene Biscailuz steps onto Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, 1936

Description: Photograph appears with the article, "Angel Jackets Dazzle Orbs of Diamond Fans," Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar 1936: 16.
Wearing dress clothes, Biscailuz crouches above the dirt field wearing a mask and holding a ball and glove in front of a packed stadium.
Sportsmen and civic notables attend the opening day.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Gene Biscailuz shown catching first ball at opening of Baseball season Wrigley Field 9/36
Text from newspaper caption: Although he couldn't reach the Mayor's first toss. Sheriff Gene Biscailuz snagged the second pitch. Here's the Sheriff as he looked behind the rubber.
Text from negative sleeve: 4685 - Sheriff Gene Biscailuz catching first ball at opening of Baseball Season Wrigley Field 3/36 [stamped:] Apr 9-1936

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Wrigley Field (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Biscailuz, Eugene W., 1883-1969
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.006796
Latitude: -118.269056
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Baseball gloves
Sheriffs--California--Los Angeles
Balls (Sporting goods)

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13889
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7cgd
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