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Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collection, 2015.196.334.1, Connecticut Historical S…
Intercambio Deportivo Softball Game
Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collection, 2015.196.334.1, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermined

Intercambio Deportivo Softball Game

Datec. 2003
Mediumphotographs
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections
DescriptionPhotographs of the Intercambio Deportivo softball tournament held in New Haven, Connecticut.

2015.196.334.1-.10: Images of Puerto Rican police baseball exchange game
Object number2015.196.334.1-.10
CopyrightIn Copyright
NotesSubject Note: The Intercambio Deportivo softball tournament has been held in July in New Haven since 1988 as an exchange between New Haven and its unofficial “sister city” of Coama in Puerto Rico, where many New Haven residents come from on the island. The exchange was founded in 1988 by Modesto Espada, a Fair Haven, Connecticut resident, and president of Fair Haven’s Coamo Social Club, to honor his brother Luis, a police officer from Coamo, Puerto Rico who was killed there in a motorcycle accident. The exchange brings New Haven officers and their family and friends to Puerto Rico in odd-numbered years, and the Puerto Rican contingent to New Haven in the even-numbered.
CCHAP documented some scenes from this game as part of research into Connecticut Puerto Ricans and their activities and heritage.

Cataloging Note: This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-245929-OMS-20.
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