Pitts Baseball Ban Fought
Pitts Baseball Ban Fought
Clip: 344318_1_1
Year Shot: 1935
(Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1514
Original Film: 007-361-01
HD: N/A
Location: OSSINING, N.Y.
Timecode: 00:37:54 - 00:38:21
Shaky, drop out spots, dull in contrast & imagery Star athlete and model prisoner, Edwin "Alabama" Pitts completes his sentence at Sing Sing as friends struggle to upset a ruling which bars him from professional baseball. Pitts' widowed mother greets him with a kiss on the steps of the big house. Edwin C. "Alabama" Pitts with his mother, Mrs. Erma Pitts Rudd, as he stepped to freedom from Sing Sing Prison. In the fall of 1929, Pitts and 3 accomplices robbed a New York City chain store of $76.25. He was 19 years old at the time. He served 5 years and 2 months of an 8 - 16 year sentence.