Black and orange 1965 sports team letter jacket from Central Kitsap High School (NW Anderson Hill Road, Silverdale).  Black wool with khaki cotton twill lining and decorative orange appliques.  Stretchy jersey knit collar, cuffs and bottom trim bear decorative orange bands.  Seven black snaps form the front closure.  Side slash pockets with white leather exterior trim.  Additional interior side slash pockets built into lining.  Central Kitsap letters CK and year 65 appliques of orange cotton terry.  Size 44.  Label inside exterior pocket:  “Lasley Knitting Co., WPL R392.” Donor name on label inside exterior pocket.

Willard A. “Bill’” Lasley (1905-1990) spent his later years running Lasley Knitting Co. in Seattle, but in the 1920s and 1930s he was known as a top pitcher in Northwest semi-professional baseball leagues. In September 1924, he was plucked from the Montana Mines League to pitch for the American League St. Louis Browns. It turned out to be a short career in the majors, which Mr. Lasley once described with characteristic humor as lasting “about an hour and a half.” During his years in baseball, Mr. Lasley played in the Mines League, for the Seattle Indians of the Pacific Coast League and for teams in the Timber League which included towns such as Aberdeen and Shelton but also for a while Seattle and Tacoma, said Mr. Lasley’s wife, Anne Christie Lasley, whom he married in 1968 following his first wife’s death.

Under Mr. Lasley’s direction and that of his son, Willard A. Lasley Jr., the company made letter sweaters and jackets for high school and college teams for more than three decades.