Names: Wrigley Field (Los Angeles, Calif.) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Crowd watching a baseball game at Wrigley Field in South Los Angeles. Los Angeles's Wrigley Field was built in 1925 and torn down in 1966. It was host to minor league baseball teams and home of the Los Angeles Angeles. The field is named after the same Wrigley as Wrigley Field in Chicago, but it actually received the name first and had more on-site parking than Chicago's field does now.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wrestler and Chicago Bears fullback Bronko Nagurski flipping opponent Vincent Lopez during their wrestling match at Wrigley field. Nagurski won the match in front of 20,000 fans to defend his title as world heavyweight champion
Date:: August 11, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wrestler and Chicago Bears fullback Bronko Nagurski getting his thigh measured before his wrestling match against Vincent Lopez at Wrigley Field. Nagurski won the match in front of 20,000 fans to defend his title as world heavyweight champion
Date:: August 11, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Trainers and referees check on Vincent Lopez after he was body slammed by Bronko Nagurski during a wrestling match at Wrigley field. Nagurski won the match in front of 20,000 fans to defend his title as world heavyweight champion
Date:: August 11, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wrestler and Chicago Bears fullback Bronko Nagurski smiling on the scale before his wrestling match against Vincent Lopez at Wrigley Field. Nagurski won the match in front of 20,000 fans to defend his title as world heavyweight champion
Date:: August 11, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Frank Shellenback Day on Wrigley field is celebrated, with many gifts for the 12,000 customers who attended. Frank Shellenback's team, the Hollywood Sheiks, lost against the Angels. Posing from left to right is master of ceremonies Dan Tobey, Frank Shellenback himself, and T.H. "Hal" Holmes, the chairman of the event.
Date:: [circa July 8, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Crowd watching a baseball game at Wrigley Field in South Los Angeles. Los Angeles's Wrigley Field was built in 1925 and torn down in 1966. It was host to minor league baseball teams and home of the Los Angeles Angeles. The field is named after the same Wrigley as Wrigley Field in Chicago, but it actually received the name first and had more on-site parking than Chicago's field does now.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wrestler and Chicago Bears fullback Bronko Nagurski with opponent Vincent Lopez in a headlock during their wrestling match at Wrigley field. Nagurski won the match in front of 20,000 fans to defend his title as world heavyweight champion
Date:: August 11, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wrestler and Chicago Bears fullback Bronko Nagurski in the wrestling ring before his match against Vincent Lopez at Wrigley Field. Nagurski won the match in front of 20,000 fans to defend his title as world heavyweight champion
Date:: August 11, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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