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Title	Sacramento Senators Team Batboy
Date	1921
Creator	Frederick Foto Service
Description	This photograph, taken in 1921, shows a batboy of the Sacramento Senators showing his stuff at Moreing Field. Sacramento’s first organized semi-professional baseball team was the Altas , who became the Senators in 1890, and played the 1891 and 1893 seasons in the California League before a depressed economy forced the sport into hibernation. In 1898 Ruhstaller’s Brewery organized and backed a team named the Gilt Edge, but commonly referred to as the Brewers. In 1901 the team became the Senators again, but left the Pacific Coast League in 1904 and played in Tacoma, Washington as the Tacoma Tigers. In 1906 an unsanctioned team calling themselves the Senators began playing the California State League, an “outlaw” organization, and they continued until 1909 when they returned to the Pacific Coast League. Early games were played at Agriculture Park (between 20th and 23rd Streets and E and H Streets), Snowflake Park (between 28th and 30th Streets and R and S Streets) and McClatchy Park on Fifth Avenue between 33rd and 37th Streets. In 1910 the team moved to permanent quarters at Buffalo Park near the intersection of Riverside Boulevard and Y Street (Broadway). The ballpark became Moreing Field after Lew Moreing purchased the team in 1920 and kept that name until the 1940s when it became known as Edmond’s Field, but when the Senators were purchased as a farm team for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1936 the “Solons” nickname became the organization’s official title.
Format	7.5 x 9.5 in.; b&w; negative
Holding Institution	Sacramento Room, Sacramento Public Library
Rights	This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Street/Neighborhood	1100 Broadway; Moreing Field
City/County	Sacramento
Subjects	Baseball Athletics African Americans Sacramento Senators (Baseball Club)
Collection	Sacramento Room Photograph Collection
Identifying Number	1480