Cuban Baseball Market

[Jason19th]

For about the past year and a half I have been focusing on Cuban baseball items. I feel that this is an over looked and undervalued part of our hobby. Most of this stuff is not just rare but actually hard to find. For example the El Score paper that is shown below is the only example that I have ever seen on Ebay (I know that there was a large lot purchased in REA last spring but none of them have seemed to hit the market). These item often feature significant Negro Leaguers and MLB stars. Yet they do not appear at shows (at the national last year that were two booths that had any real selection) So this this post has two purposes 1. Lets see other Cuban Items and 2. What do you see the market doing with these items both in terms of price and availability

Items pictured
El Score 1908 featuring box scores from the team that Rube Foster took to Cuba to participate (and win) the Winter Season
Page for Acebo album 1950
Photo's of Jose Oliveras and Vicente Rodriguez (catcher on first year 1920 KC Monarchs)-- sorry I do not know why the image is flipped to the left

[bcbgcbrcb]

Here are two of my favorite Cuban baseball pieces, the 1923-24 Cuban League & MLB Tomas Gutierrez albums (sample page from each shown).

Very tough to find now in decent shape, here is a couple of mine

[ramram]

As soon as the Castro's pass away and relations become somewhat normalized, I expect an MLB team to expand to Havana. The Cuban collectibles market will then blow wide open.

Rob M.

Leonard Pearson & Ray Noble

Leonard Pearson & Ray Noble.jpg

[ramram]

Scorebook from a game the All Cubans played during their 1905 tour of the states.

Rob M.

All Cubans.jpg

All Cubans Closeup.jpg

[Kenny Cole]

I have the Acebo and TG Cuban albums, but they aren't scanned. Here's poor scans of some other stuff I have.