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Hollywood Stars Baseball Team

Hollywood Stars Baseball Team

Posted By Bruce Torrence on Monday, November 21, 2011 4:48:00 AM  |  Comment on This Post

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In November 1937, Herbert Fleishaker moved his Mission Reds baseball team from San Francisco to Los Angeles and took the name 'Hollywood Stars Baseball Team”.   After the 1938 season, the Stars' management dissolved. Fleishhacker was unable to complete arrangements for construction of a baseball park. Then his brewery failed and he went into bankruptcy. The club was for sale.

The men who purchased the Stars from Fleishhacker's estate retained control for the next 19 years - until the arrival of major league baseball in Los Angeles forced the club to disband. They made the Stars the civic venture and outstanding team that is remembered today.  The leaders of the new ownership group were Victor Ford Collins, who was Fleishhacker's attorney, and ...

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