Hola, Roland,
buenas noches y muchas gracias! (Our apologies to everyone else for sidetracking this thread
into a subtopic more appropriate for the Memorabilia section.)
Roland, you've already given us much new information, and we would really appreciate seeing any pictures of
the games you mentioned. There are several ways you can upload photos, but the easiest and fastest might be
adding them to your reply as "attachments" -- when you hit "Post Reply," there is a tiny image of a paper clip,
just to the right of the smiley face. Click the paper clip and it will open a pop-up that will allow you to add images.
If you have trouble with it, let us know and we'll try to explain it better. Or just e-mail the photos to us at
Butch7999@aol.com and we'll post them for you.
In the meantime, here are some of the very few photos we have -- maybe you can tell us more about these games.
We're interested, basically, in knowing each game's correct title, the manufacturer or publisher, and the year
in which it was made or published. Any information about how the games were played (cards, dice, spinner, &c')
would be a huge bonus. We don't own any of these games, nor have we ever even seen them in person, so our
ignorance may qualify as spectacular...
All we have of
Baraja Pelotera Unica is this advertisement, which we would guess is from the 1950s:
This little photo is the only image we have of
Beisbolito:
And this tiny photo is all we know about this card set, which was implied to be
EME Baseball Con Cartas, but
for all we know may instead be the
Baraja Pelotera Unica game:
We do have good photos of every page of
¡Play Ball!, which we know was designed by Anselmo Rodriguez Zerpa
and published in 1947. The only thing we're unsure of is the publisher -- is it Cuadro de Juego, or was it self-published
by Zerpa?
Lastly, we have good photos of a few different editions of
Parchi Deportivo, which we know is just
Parcheesi
("
The Game of India") with the crests of the four Cuban League teams, but we don't know what year it was made,
and we're unsure of the manufacturer of this game too -- is it Continental Fabrica?
Thank you so much for your assistance with this research!