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Matanzas Little League baseball team in uniform – Antique Wall Art

Matanzas Little League baseball team in uniform — historic image
Matanzas Little League baseball team in uniform. Historic image from the Baseball collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

Few images capture their era like this historic image of Matanzas Little League baseball team in uniform. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.

Matanzas Little League baseball team in uniform

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Matanzas, the Cuban port city, is the place that sets this team apart from the many other baseball team portraits on the board. Teams like this one were a common sight across Cuba in the mid-twentieth century, when baseball was woven into school, neighborhood and town life and Little League programs gave young players a formal structure. Posed in matching uniforms, the boys stand as a group, a format that signaled local pride and organized community effort. Look closely at the uniforms and lettering, which often carried the town's name and a sponsor's mark, as clues to who funded the team.

Original scan6,261 × 4,939 px · prints to 21 × 16 in at 300 dpi
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