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BASEBALL HEADQUARTERS
Robinson Gymnesium

February 28, 1941

Dear Varsity Baseballer:

I have been delighted at the enthusiasm shown by you and the rest
of the squad over the coming baseball seasone Your regular attendance in
preparing yourself physically for the more strenuous days when you cavort on
the diamond is @ very pleasing nesesten to me. All the jobs are wide open
and there certainly is going to be some competition for places of\ this
year's Varsity.

Do not forget your twelve push-ups night and morning on your
fingers and toes. Physical fitness and the desire to battle courageously is
about 60% of any sport, whether it be football, basketball, track, or baseball.
So let's get in tip-top physical shape, use the medicine ball, punch the bag,
skip the rope, play handball, and indulge in all these body building exercises,
so that when we get out doors to circle those bases and to throw thet apple
around in an intelligent and vigorous feshion, then there should be no strained
or pulled muscles.

So keep up the good work, fight a good. : keep training rules,
and Kansas will heve a fighting baseball team that the students will be proud
of.

It will be typically a college team with no charging out at the
umpires But our charge will be at the oposition. Let's show them what
real “esprit de corps" and determination can do for a team that has been Qus Hew
shot to pieces, so bere? fast year's returning lettermen are gonoeraesy phere
vitalized by @ group of young men who want to make their Unj
and have a lot of fun playing the great national out door game of baseball.

ZI will be with you shortly. Until then, I am,

Sincerely yours,

FCA:1lg:mln Varsity Baseball Coach