PLEASE PASS ALONG:


You are cordially invited to attend the reception
celebrating the culmination of a year of scholarship
and the opening of a unique exhibition,
MEXICAN-AMERICAN BASEBALL IN LOS ANGELES: FROM THE
BARRIOS TO THE BIG LEAGUES, scheduled from 2:00-4:00
p.m., Sunday, March 26, 2006 on the campus of
California State University, Los Angeles. The exhibit
will be on display from March 26 through June 9.

The event is open to the public and free of charge.
The University is located at the Eastern Avenue exit,
San Bernardino (I-10) Freeway, at the interchange of
the I-10 and the I-710 Freeways. Public (permit
dispenser) is available in Lot F or the top level of
Parking Structure II. (For campus map, go to
www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamap.htm. Please RSVP
by March 22, 2006 by phoning the Office of the
University Librarian, 323/343-3974 or by email at
tmetcal@....



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Cal State L.A. and Baseball Reliquary Exhibition on
Mexican-American Baseball Opens March 26

WHAT:
A reception celebrating the culmination of a year of
scholarship and the opening of a unique exhibition,
Mexican-American Baseball in Los Angeles: From the
Barrios to the Big Leagues, will be held at California
State University, Los Angeles. Refreshments will be
served.

WHEN:
Sunday, March 26, 2006, 2 - 4 p.m.

WHERE:
John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, Courtyard, on the
Cal State L.A. campus. The University is located at
the Eastern Avenue exit, San Bernardino (I-10)
Freeway, at the interchange of the 10 and 710
Freeways. Public (permit dispenser) parking is
available in Lot F or the top level of Parking
Structure 2. (For campus map, go to
www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamap.htm)

PROGRAM:
Several speakers will address various aspects of this
comprehensive humanities-based project, which includes
the establishment of a Mexican-American baseball
archive in the Special Collections of the John F.
Kennedy Memorial Library. Featured speakers will be
Cesar Caballero, acting university librarian, John F.
Kennedy Memorial Library; Francisco E. Balderrama,
professor of Chicano Studies and History, Cal State
L.A.; and Richard Santillan, professor emeritus,
Ethnic and Women's Studies Department, Cal Poly
Pomona. Their remarks will be followed by a
ribbon-cutting ceremony and viewing of the library
exhibition. (The exhibit will be on display from March
26 through June 9.)

INFO:
The event is open to the public and free of charge.
For more information on the project, go to the Web
site at
www.baseballreliquary.org/MexicanAmericanBaseball.htm
or call (323) 343-3974.

MEDIA:
Members of the media are invited to attend. Please
RSVP by March 20 to the Office of Public Affairs at
Cal State L.A., (323) 343-3050.


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BACKGROUND:
A collaborative effort between the Baseball
Reliquary-a Southern California-based nonprofit
organization dedicated to fostering an appreciation of
American art and culture through baseball history-and
Cal State L.A.'s John F. Kennedy Memorial Library,
Mexican-American Baseball in Los Angeles: From the
Barrios to the Big Leagues is designed to document and
interpret the historic role that baseball has played
as a cohesive element and as a social and cultural
force within the Mexican-American communities of the
Los Angeles metropolitan area.

The project includes the recording and preservation of
oral histories; the establishment of an archive
dedicated to Mexican-American baseball history as part
of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library's Special
Collections; and the presentation of an exhibition,
featuring photographs, artwork, and artifacts, which
will examine the social and ethnic ramifications of
baseball within the Mexican-American communities of
Los Angeles.


This project is made possible, in part, by a grant to
the Baseball Reliquary from the California Council for
the Humanities as part of the Council's statewide
California Stories Initiative
(www.californiastories.org), and from the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles
County Arts Commission.


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