• Title Boys Baseball Team on Bus
  • Caption Pre-game focus: Alex Allen, 11, has a moment to himself while waiting for the team bus to leave Wentworth Gardens for a game at Washington Park. Made up of 8-to-12-year-olds from the Wentworth Gardens housing community, the Sox are the one of sixteen Inner City Little League teams. Administered by the Park District as of 2000, the league's teams include Chicago Housing Authority residents and compete at the South Side's Washington Park; squads share the names of Major League Baseball teams, and the league is partially sponsored by the Chicago Cubs' Cubs Care foundation and the Chicago White Sox.
  • Photographer Pope, Wes
  • Date June 22, 2000
  • Iso Date 2000-06-22
  • Project Location Wentworth Gardens (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Project Number 332
  • Project Title Baseball Series
  • Original Sleeve Title Wentworth White Sox
  • Sleeve Caption Baseball, including National League Chicago Cubs, American League Chicago White Sox, general assignments including high school, college, recreational, Chicago Park District Buddy Baseball, and 16-inch softball. On 6/22, Wentworth White Sox, Inner City Little League Team: A. Boys getting on a bus in front of Wentworth Gardens, 3770 South Wentworth Avenue in Wentworth Gardens, then B. Playing a game at Washington Park, northeast corner of park at East 55th and South King Drive in South Side. Pope drove separately between locations.
  • Subject African Americans boys; Baseball for children; School buses; Day
  • Subject Vocabulary Scheme LCSH
  • Type Image
  • Form Photographs
  • Medium Color
  • Film Size 35mm
  • Sponsorship Funded through the support of the Comer Foundation.
  • Host University of Illinois at Chicago. Library.
  • Collection CITY 2000 (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  • Repository University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives.
  • Citation Cite as [Creator]. [Title], [Identifier]. Comer Archive of Chicago in the Year 2000 (University of Illinois at Chicago).
  • Rights Contact photographer for use rights.
  • Staff Notes CITY 2000: images from the book
  • Local Identifier 38198100057072_29
  • Item Url http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/u?/uic_city,4121
  • Digital Collection CITY 2000 (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  • Rights Contact photographer for use rights.