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Ed Bolden

    Baseball entrepreneur Ed Bolden, shown here in 1924, when he controlled the Eastern Colored League, which would collapse in 1928. Bolden would go on to form the Philadelphia Stars. The Stars joined the new Negro National League and played its 1933 and 1934 seasons at Passon Field, before moving to Penmar Park in West Philadelphia’s Parkside neighborhood. 

    Neighborhoods
    Cedar Park
    1924
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Attribution/Credit

    “1924 Negro League World Series,” Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division; the cropped image from the LOC photo appears in “Ed Bolden,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bolden, accessed 14 May 2019.