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2 clippings from New York, New York.

Photo feature headed Indoor Baseball On Big Scale showing Klepack, Brooklyn shortstop, out at first base in a National Professional Indoor Baseball League game in Bronx Coliseum, with Martin of the New York Giants taking the throw. Below runs Harry Grayson's NEA story Recreational Game Can't Be Sold At Price, Say Veterans, in which softball officials argue the new league forgot sex appeal because girls outdraw men, listing the famous names running each club and noting a planned indoor world series in March.

Indoor Baseball On Big Scale

The Laredo Times
New York, New York · 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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