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Originally Posted by Cubanball
Al, what a great card. Julian Castillo was one of the greats of Cuban baseball. He was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1943, He had a .310 lifetime Cuban league batting average. In 1901 with the San Francisco club (see photo) he batted .454. He led the league in batting, Hits, Doubles and Triples four times. He was born in Havana in 1881 and died in 1948.
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And this is the only card of him that I am aware of. For whatever reason I thought of him while watching the World Series in the context of the "unideal" body type of Kirk. By 1910 Juan had put on a bit more weight than he had earlier in the decade... LOL.