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February 20th, 1945

  

 

Dre Fe Co Allen,
Athletic Department,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear "Phog": :
A get together in this neck of the woods wouldn't be complete
without the one and only Dre Fe C. Allen = so some of we old~timers are
going to count on you “Phog" if it is at all possible.

The date will be Tuesday night, March 27th sometime early in
the evening, no doubt at the President Hotel when possibly a hundred or
more of us are going to get together and extend our mutual old time friend
"Casey" Stengel a welcome hand beck home as manager of the Kansas City Bluose

A few of us here in Kansas City gathered together yesterday
around the luncheon table including Judge Ben Terte, George Goldman, Harold
Lederman, Bill Gardner , myself and confidentially Roy Hamey = = and he wants
to stay a little bit in the background on this matter < - to arrange getting
together a bunch of old time baseball players and former high school teammates
of Casey's to put on just a little informal get-together for him about March
27th when he will be here a few days before going South with the Blues.

I have already written “Quig" and We 0. Hamilton inviting both
of them down from Lewrence and too I am writing to George Edwards at Missouri
and a few others of Casey's and my teammates on the basketball team at Central
High School in 1909.

Then too we're getting together a bunch of the old time base=
bell players around town some of whom played with Casey in high school and
others in the professional league - so all in all it looks like we'll have
@ hundred or more guests there including almost for sure George Trautmann,
President of the Ae A» Be and naturally there'll be some good food and maybe
@ drink or two together with a lot of reminiscing and story telling and I
think you will enjoy this evening if you can arrange to be with use Naturally,
if you're on hend we might call on you for a word or two but far be it from
@ speech making contest on the part of anyonee

What do say? Can you make it? and if there is any further part»
iculars you need, let me knowe

Naturally, we'll have newspaper and radiomen there and I be#
lieve you can take my word for it that it's going to be a well worth while

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