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Lot #1917
Clark Griffith

Griffith works on his spring training schedule: “We...hold our other dates open until we found out about the St. Louis Browns, Boston Braves and Brooklyn training in our vicinity. I have been trying to get these clubs to agree to a series of spring games among ourselves”

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Griffith works on his spring training schedule: “We...hold our other dates open until we found out about the St. Louis Browns, Boston Braves and Brooklyn training in our vicinity. I have been trying to get these clubs to agree to a series of spring games among ourselves”

Turn of the century baseball Hall of Fame pitcher and player-manager. TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Washington American League Base Ball Club letterhead, August 10, 1942. Letter to a Detroit Tigers official. In part, “I wrote to you a few days ago to verify two dates of spring games…It was my thought that we would verify these two dates and then hold our other dates open until we found out about the St. Louis Browns, Boston Braves and Brooklyn training in our vicinity. I have been trying to get these clubs to agree to a series of spring games among ourselves.” Staples and holes to top edge, expected folds and some light wrinkling, otherwise fine condition. COA Steve Grad/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.

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