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The 1930s

2 clippings from the 1930s.

Associated Press item headed Indoor Diamond League Inaugural Delayed, reporting Robert Blattner, secretary of the St. Louis Pandas of the newly organized National Professional Indoor Baseball League, announced the league schedule has been suspended for a week or 10 days to ascertain if Chicago, the fourth city in the western section, is ready to play.

Indoor Diamond League Inaugural Delayed

St. Louis Pandas
St. Louis, Missouri · 1939

Whitney Martin Associated Press column headed Diamond Aces Aid Softball Cause, describing the cocktail hour launch party of the National Indoor Baseball League with Gabby Street, Tris Speaker, Harry Davis, Brick Owens and Bill Wambsganss in attendance, quoting plans for eight clubs in eastern and western divisions, pay as high as 80 dollars a week, a 40-foot pitching distance and a 17-week schedule ending in a world series.

Diamond Aces Aid Softball Cause

The Laredo Times
New York, New York · 1939

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