I think you may be trying to be too logical about the path of Major League hand-me-down uniforms. I remember handling an old NY Giants jersey which came out of a western state (Utah? Montana? Can't remember...) There was a newspaper article from the 1980's with it which interviewed the owner before our consignor. It noted a letter the industrial team owner had sent to the club, and the letter back requesting something like $5 or $10/uniform. There was no official connection between the two clubs. I think this was probably fairly common back in the pre-war days before the dawn of farm clubs.
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