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Contains 8 Results:

Letters. Correspondence between W. P. Bayless, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Oscar Adams, Birmingham, Alabama, 1923 June 18-22

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSSP 0001-2
Scope and Contents

Two letters between Bayless of the Preston News Service and Adams of the Birmingham Reporter. The Reporter was an African American newspaper founded by Adams. Bayless asks for the name and address of the Black Barons manager; Adams replies with contact information for Joe Rush.

Dates: 1923 June 18-22

Letters. Correspondence between J. L. Dent, Birmingham, Alabama and Oscar Adams, Birmingham, Alabama, 1923 June 20-29

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSSP 0001-3
Scope and Contents

Two letters between Dent of the Birmingham Tuberculosis Sanitarium and Adams of the Birmingham Reporter. Dent asks Adams if the Black Barons would be interested in playing a benefit game for the sanitarium; Adams replies that such an event cannot be organized.

Dates: 1923 June 20-29

Document. Birmingham team roster with salaries, [1927 May]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSSP 0001-4
Scope and Contents

A hand-written roster from May 1927 listing the monthly salaries of the players currently employed by the Black Barons. Players are listed in descending order according to salary. Some salary entries have been corrected to indicate pay raises.

Dates: [1927 May]

Newspaper clipping. Negro National League first half schedule, n.d.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSSP 0001-5
Scope and Contents

Clipped copy of the league's first-half schedule, probably for 1929.

Dates: n.d.

A. G. Benning financial records, 1929 May-June

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSSP 0001-6
Scope and Contents

An itemized pay statement for May 1929 for Birmingham player A. G. Benning, and two receipts for payments made by Benning. The line items on the statement duplicate ones that appear on p. 132 of the account book. The receipts are for a payment of $2.75 made to teammate Anthony Cooper, and a payment of $3.40 for dues to St. Luke Lodge No. 23, Knights of Pythias. Both these transactions are included on the statement.

Dates: 1929 May-June

Manuscripts. Birmingham Black Barons schedule, n.d.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSSP 0001-7
Scope and Contents

Four typed sheets with the Black Barons schedule, home and away, first and second halfs, probably for 1930.

Dates: n.d.

Clarence Smith pay statement, 1930 May 15

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSSP 0001-8
Scope and Contents

An itemized pay statement for Birmingham player Clarence Smith, with debits and credits running from 30 September 1929 to 15 May 1930.

Dates: 1930 May 15

Miscellaneous enclosures, n.d.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSSP 0001-9
Scope and Contents

Two printed sheets without manuscript content. One bears the header of the Jackson Reality Company, whose owner, R. T. Jackson, was president of the Black Barons after Joe Rush.

Dates: n.d.