It Came From the (Photo) Morgue! Play Ball!

March is Women's History Month and baseball season is fast approaching, so why not celebrate both? Here are a couple of finds from the SF News-Call Bulletin photo morgue:

Margaret Stanton played right field for the Bay Meadows Girls team. June 28, 1945. [P674 Stanton, M-Z]

Toni Stone played in San Francisco with the semi-pro team, the San Francisco Sea Lions, during World War II. In 1953, when this photo was taken, she went pro, playing with the Indianapolis Clowns.

Caption:

Birmingham, May 31, 1953
WOMAN PLAYER ON MEN'S BASEBALL TEAM -
Toni Stone of Buffalo, N.Y., who holds down second base for the Indianapolis Clowns, practiced a bunt before they played the Birmingham Black Barons in a Negro baseball game. [AP Wirephoto]
[P385 Stone, S-Z]

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The San Francisco Public Library owns the photo morgue of the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin, a daily newspaper that covered the time period from the 1920s to 1965. Much of the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection comes from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue. However, the morgue also includes statewide, national, and international subjects and people that have not been digitized or cataloged. When researchers order scans from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue,selections are cataloged and added to the online database.

Looking for a historical photograph of San Francisco? Try our online database first. Not there? Come visit us at the Photo Desk of the San Francisco History Center, located on the sixth floor at the Main Library. The Photo Desk hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays 10 a.m. to noon, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. You may also request photographs from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue.