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Posted By: ramram

Looks legit to me. Great scorecard! Sorry I didn't see this one on Ebay.

I've got a 1904 Spalding scorebook with a couple of scored games of the Cuban Giants. That team's personnel was very close to this one and consisted of: Satterfield, Galloway, Gordon, Williams, Watkins, Wallace, Northrup, Walker and Garcia. An interesting note that I found in an old newspaper article about Garcia - in October of 1904 he was catching a game for the Cuban Giants - he caught a foul ball, "but then, to the astonishment of the crowd of 2,000, fell over on his face, the ball rolling slowly from his hand" and died on the spot (the big guy had a heart attack - 28 years old).

Sorry, I diverge.

Rob M.