Crimson Rims Baseball Team
Datec. 1898
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number1987.1.1932
DescriptionThe Crimson Rims of Tempe was a local baseball team established sometime in the late 1890s and that was around at least until 1906 - the Crimson Rim was a brand of bicycle wheel popular at the time. One of those who were probably responsible for putting the team together was Edward P. Carr (seated to the far left, next to his African American teammate). Carr, best known in Tempe as the founder of Carr's Mortuary, was the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Tempe at the time this photo was taken in the late 1890s. The team is unique for the fact that it's roster was multi-racial, consisting of players of African, European, and Mexican ancestry as represented in this rare photograph and by the rosters published in local newspapers in the early 1900s.Date and info on E. P. Carr provided by his grandson, John Hurd (from "familytreemaker" genealogy on-line site)
Status
Not on view
circa 1910
c. 1890s
August 25,1907
1901- 1902