Title: Jim Parker/Knoxville Baseball Club Letter

Date/Date Range :   1938 January 4-1938 March 1

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

The Jim Parker/Knoxville Baseball Club Letter Letter, 1938, contains a letter and envelope from the Knoxville Baseball Club to Jim Parker about transferring from the Dallas Club and signing the Knoxville Club's 1938 contract.

Call number: MS-2309

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

The Special Collections Library purchased this collection in February of 2004.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Jim Parker/Knoxville Baseball Club Letter, MS-2309. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single folder.

No biographical information on Jim Parker could be found.

Minor League Baseball organized first in Tennessee around 1885. The Southern Association began play in 1901. Perhaps as early as 1878, Knoxville had baseball clubs. In 1894, the city's first professional team, the Knoxville Reds, was organized. In 1909 came the Knoxville Appalachians. From 1925 through 1930 the Knoxville Smokies played. The following year the team played in the new Smithson Stadium. In 1953 Smithson Stadium burned and was replaced on the same site by Knoxville Municipal Stadium (later Bill Meyer Stadium). There was no minor league team in Knoxville from 1967 through 1971. However, the Knoxville Smokies reappeared in the 1970s, but the team moved to Sevierville and took the name Tennessee Smokies in 1997.

The Jim Parker/Knoxville Baseball Club Letter, 1938, contains a letter and envelope from the Knoxville Baseball Club to Jim Parker about transferring from the Dallas Club and signing the Knoxville Club's 1938 contract.

• Minor league baseball -- Tennessee -- Knoxville.
• Knoxville Smokies (Baseball team).