Letter to Leslie Mann from Jose A. Sordo (October 29, 1938)
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This is a Letter from Jose A. Sordo, of the Union Athletica de Amateurs de Cuba, to Leslie Mann, the executive secretary and treasurer of the International Amateur Baseball Federation, dated October 29, 1938. It is Letter #2 of six numbered letters concerning the hosting of the 1939 John Moores Cup Series, also known as the World's Amateur Baseball Championship. The letters may have been reproduced and included in a mailing, as this is not the original. This letter says that Cuba will sponsor the series and that the games will be played in Havana. It lays out some of the rules and what Cuba will help pay for and what they will not. 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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