1935 Clark Griffith Letter to Cleland Regarding Donations to Baseball's New Hall of Fame

The first letter offered from the Cleland archive is extraordinary because it was the first letter he received from an eventual inductee with favorable news. The letter, dated June 5, 1935 was from Washingtonian Clark Griffith, the man who won over 250 ball games as a major league pitcher even before the turn of the century and who, as owner of the Washington Senators for well over fifty years, defined major league baseball in the Nation's Capital. Griffith wrote that he would be “most happy” to see Cleland anytime about donations and offered “many pictures of opening games with Presidents and other dignitaries and some other historical facts that might be of interest to your collection." LOAs from PSA/DNA and JSA.