Minor league baseball pitcher Frank Shellenback at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Minor league baseball pitcher Frank Shellenback at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

July, 1935

Date

1935-07

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Minor league pitcher for the Hollywood Stars (aka Hollywood Sheiks) Frank Shellenback playing baseball at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles.
This photograph appears with the article, "Everybody Looks Up to Shellenback Today," Los Angeles Times, 7 Jul. 1935: pg.21.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: And the photographer took this picture to show how the popular Hollywood hurler and manager appears when you look up at him. It's Shellenback Day at Wrigley Field this afternoon and the largest crowd of the season is expected to be on hand to honor the Sheik skipper, who will pitch the second game of the double-header against the Angels [Los Angeles Times, 7 Jul. 1935: pg.21]
Handwritten on negative: Frank Shellenback, Ball Player, 1121, [stamped:] Jul 17 1935.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Hollywood Stars (Baseball team)
Shellenback, Frank, 1899-1969
Wrigley Field (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.0075

Latitude

-118.266111

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Pitchers
Baseball players--California--Los Angeles
Baseball--California--Los Angeles