We have a friend of The Museum who is seeking information about a boys' baseball team (in the 1950s) who were wearing t shirts with the "Western Boys Baseball Association on an outside circle and the inside reads, East Valley Van Nuys."
No information is known about this League somewhere around 1953 - 55.
Thanks for your help here.
Jerry 1 (818) 347-9665
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I played in the Western Boys Baseball Association in 1964-65. The field was located on Hazeletine Ave, just east of Valerio behind the Schlitz Brewery and nextdoor to Foremost Dairy. There were two fields..one for the WBBA and the other belonged to South Van Nuys Little League.
They were apparently active as late as 1978: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19780821&id=v6MqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J1sEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4872,5187382
I played on the 1978 Van Nuys All-Stars who went to the WBBA Championship game in Idaho. Though we fell apart in the final the experience getting there was amazing. I remember our home field next to the Schlitz brewery and across from a vacant building with broken windows. I always wondered what happened to the league.
I pitched and hit a grand slam with two outs in the bottom of the sixth which sent us to provo utah for the championship. our field was located at nordoff and balboa. i played for the northridge all-stars in 63 & 64. the picture of me pitching was in the valley times. i wish i could show it to my grandchildren. great memories! jeff dunn jeffscementworks@gmail.com
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