June 14, 1932. 8 3/8x11" typewritten letter on “New York Bloomer Girls Undefeated Female Baseball Champions” letterhead is typewritten and signed in black fountain pen ink “Margaret R. Nabel”. Letter is addressed to J. Austen Shay in Lebanon, PA in answer to his June 10th request to have game played over July 4th weekend. Nabel notes that their three day visit to PA in May was very disappointing from a financial standpoint, they had five games altogether, but they did not average $60 per game and “We Cannot Therefore, Entertain Any Proposition Whatever For Game In Lebanon, Pa On July 3rd And Are Already Taking Bookings Elsewhere For That Weekend”. In the fourth paragraph she mentions “I Should Think That The Balto. Blacksocks Would Be A Very Good Attraction, If You Can Get The Balto. Blacksocks Team, As I Am Given To Understand There Are Several Teams On The Road With That Name. Perhaps You Too Know This, And Will Act Accordingly So That You Will Be Sure To Get The Genuine Blacksocks”. She concludes the letter with a PS noting how numerous Lebanon cars drove up to Schaefferstown game on May 30th “And Refused To Come In When They Found Out We Were Taxing All Adults 40¢ Admission. My Guess Is That There Were More Than 100 Alltogether Who Turned Back And Did Not Come In; Different People Told Me That Lebanon Is Noted As A Place Where Mostly All Seem To Expect Everything For Nothing”. The Blacksocks team consisted of all black players. Letter comes with original 3.5x6" envelope postmarked June 16 Staten Island as mailed. Letter has one horizontal and two vertical folds as mailed. Fine with bold signature. Envelope has been torn open at right side edge and is missing a piece in this area. VG. The New York Bloomer Girls were the first organized women’s baseball team in New York. Margaret Nabel began playing with them in 1914 and became manager in the early 1920s. They consistently won games in the 1920s but the depression era took a toll on the Bloomer Girls and they were dissolved at the end of the 1933 season. A very interesting and historic letter by one of the most successful female managers in early female baseball player history. From the Richard Merkin Collection and comes with Hake’s COA.