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Posted By: Kenny Cole

That is a nice lot with the Cabanas being the cream of the crop. Players from Habana (Red) are the scarcest, Almendares (blue) are next, and Tigers (yellow) are the most common. I've never seen the Habana Mesa card that's in this lot before. My guess is that its worth $500 or so, maybe a little more. The Habana cards are really hard to find. There is a Habana card of Pete Hill, and it is just AWESOME!!! I only know of one copy though.

I paid about $300 for an Amendares Garcia in much worse shape than the one in the auction a couple of years ago. Detroit players, including O'Laughlin, usually go for around $150-$200. I paid about that for a real nice O'Laughlin back in 1999. My best guess is that the Aguilitas Artistica Miguel Angel card is worth around $200. I would value the T.G. Petty at around $250-$300. I don't know about the Decatur because I don't collect the pitcher set.

When I search on ebay, I generally use "Cuba* baseball." That seems to pick most cards up. Sometimes I'll run the other searches you mentioned, but they don't pick anything additional up very often.