oakland larks

Letter from Mat Pascale from Midwest Sports Bureau to Mr. Witte, a booking agent out of Spokane, Washington regarding games for the Larks in Nebraska and Kansas. Witte then wrote a note to Edward...

Letter written by Julian Decatur to Mr. V.R. Klingaman, the booking agent for the Larks in Texas and Louisana, regarding arrangements for a game in May in Monroe, LA. Decatur assures Klingaman...

Letter written by Guy L. Rathbun to Edward Harris, the business manager for the Oakland Larks regarding various arrangements that Rathbun was making for baseball and basketball teams around the...

Letter written by Guy L. "Coach" Rathbun to Edward Harris, the business manager for the Oakland Larks. Generally discusses how well the Tigers are doing and the popularity of the Negro baseball...

Letter from Guy L. "Coach" Rathbun to Edward Harris, the business manager of the Larks. Response to Harris' letter of a few days before. Rathbun asks for an exact date when the team will be in...

Letter from Gerald Thorne in the Canal Zone to the Larks offering himself to come to the U.S. to try out for the Larks. Says that he is a good ball player and can benefit the team.

Letter written by Edward Harris, the business manager for the Oakland Larks, to Mr. Wittie of Witte Agency. The letter is regarding arrangements for barnstorming games by the Larks. Apparently...

Letter from E.F. Marchetti the secretary of the Helper Baseball Association in Helper, Utah to Edward Harris, the business manager of the Oakland Larks. Marchetti writes that he is interested in...

Letter from Carl O. Keeter of the Adolph Coors Company to Edward Harris, the business manager of the Oakland Larks. Keeter askes Harris is the Larks will be coming through Colorado in the next...

Letter written by Alfredo Miller to Sam Hicks, the manager for the Oakland Larks. Miller states that due to his wife's medical condition he was unable to report to training camp but expected to...

Letter from Alfredo Miller in Paraiso, Canal Zone to the Oakland Larks explaining that he was unable to make training camp due to his wife's health but that he was keeping in shape and expected to...

Handwritten on the back, "Oakland Larks Negro League Team 1946?, 3B Fox Blevins sliding Felton Morrie Morrison." Photo shows Blevins bent over, stradiling a base with his glove with the baseball...

Handwritten on the back, "1946? 37-Wells 1B, 34-Scott P." At the bottom in pen, "P Ira Wells & OF Foy Scott." Photo shows Wells with one foot on a base as he reaches foward to catch a ball...

Handwritten on the back, "46? L-R 1. Wade James, 2, Wee Willie Jones, 3, Chas. Speck Roberts, 4, Marion Sugar Cain." Typed piece of paper attached to the back, "For use in the...

Photograph shows Sammy Workman wearing an Oakland Larks baseball uniform and wearing a mitt with a baseball sitting inside it on his left arm. He is posing in front of a blank wall.

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Photograph shows Sammy Workman wearing an Oakland Larks baseball uniform and swinging a baseball bat. He is on a baseball field. Advertisements are visible on the fence in the background for...

Handwritten on the back in pencil, "Specks Roberts Chas Spec." Photo shows Roberts standing in front of home plate(?) posing as if he has just thrown a pitch.

Handwritten on the back, "Chas. Spec Roberts." Photo shows an African American man wearing an Oakland Larks baseball uniform. Photo shows him having just pitched the ball. He is standing on a...

Handwritten on the back, "Chas 'Spec' Roberts." Photo shows an African American man wearing an Oakland Larks uniform standing behind the pitchers plate. It appears that he has just thrown the...

Photograph shows three Oakland Larks baseball players posing together in front of a wire fence. Several cars are parked behind the fence. They each are wearing their mitts on their left hands....