Baseball behind bars at California’s most notorious prison

America’s Pastime has been played at San Quentin State Prison — California’s most notorious jail — for nearly 100 years.

The programme is funded by donations and is open to every prisoner, whatever their crime, except those on death row, in solitary confinement or in protective custody.

The maximum security prison fields two teams — The Giants and The A’s — and plenty of free men willingly spend an afternoon in lockup every season to take on the inmates.