This two page document is the U.S.A Baseball Congress Bulletin # 4 (1939) - Bid for All American Trials. It talks about the trials being held for the 1939 John Moores Cup Series (World's Amateur Baseball Championships) being held in Havana, Cuba. The letter is a bid for cities to host the trials as well as looking for support from the city to pay for some of the expenses for the team to travel to Cuba. In exchange the city would take the gate from all the games played in the trials. It also talks about who can try out and how the selection process will take place. It is signed by Leslie Mann who founded the U.S.A. Congress and the International Amateur Baseball Federation that was sponsoring the World Championships. At the time he was the Secretary-Treasurer. In a handwritten note by Les Mann, he asked the Alumni Office to put a notice in the Alumni News as "..like lots of Spfld men as our commissioners.". For biographical information on Leslie Mann, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/563. Originally, all documents within folder seven, including this document, were attached. When materials were processed, documents were separated. Documents may or may not apply to each other;
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