Gene Lillard swings the bat, Los Angeles, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Gene Lillard swings the bat, Los Angeles, 1934

Photographer

Coffey, Fred Everett, 1891-1947

Date Created

June 1934

Date

1934-06

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Two Knockdowns Scored In Fight at Ball Park," Los Angeles Times, 03 June 1934: E1.
Lillard takes a swing in front of a packed stadium, the catcher and umpire.
The Los Angeles Angels won the ball game 4-1.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: You'll Have to Admit This Is a Striking Picture And the gent doing the striking in the picture is none other than Gene Lillard, young Angel third-sacker, whose improved fielding and hitting is one of the many reasons why Jack Lelivelt's club is making a runaway affair of the Coast League race. Lillard was the Coast League home-run king with forty-three last season, but it looks as though he is going to lose his laurels to his team-mate, Frank Demaree, this year. Notice the muscles bulging in Gene's forearm as he goes for a long one. That's where he gets that tremendous power at the plate.
Handwritten on negative: Gene Lillard
Text from negative sleeve: LILLARD, GENE BASEBALL

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Lillard, Gene, 1913-1991
Los Angeles Angels (Baseball team)
Wrigley Field (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.007312

Latitude

-118.266180

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Baseball players--California--Los Angeles
Baseball umpires--California--Los Angeles
Baseball bats