New member cuban cards

[ghostmarcelle]

They definitely feel like cards - here is the Isidro Fabre

[Exhibitman]

$500 for the 8 of them in 2003 was a very good deal

[ghostmarcelle]

Adam - $500 was the starting bid, the lot went for a little over $2400 which actually seemed like big money at the time!

[Roland 49]

Matt, the Leland auction group seems to me to be photos, I don't know how big they are, but maybe they are the size of a card, you tell me that they are blank on the back, that is, they have neither numbering nor propaganda from some factory, Evans (Leland) in his visits to Cuba was several times in my house, and achieved many good things, but I don't remember if any of those photos were mine, now I show a photo of Fabre, from the time of the that is shown, in that group, the third one from above seems to me to be José Maria Fernández, with his pet Catcher, the names are written in ink on the photo.

[Roland 49]

1868 1st Baseball Game between Americans and Cubans. In 1868, in the port of Matanzas, there was a schooner and its sailors found out that there was a baseball team in Havana, and they challenged them to go to Matanzas to play. The players from the Havana team went with a group of 25 players and from there they chose the 10 that would play that game, the referee was Leopoldo de Sola, who was the first referee of Cuba, the Cuban team won that game held in El Palmar de Junco, it was the first international baseball match, In 1879 the Hot Bitters team visited us in Havana, the North Americans winning by a wide margin, they played on the grounds of Club Habana in El Vedado, the newspaper "El Triunfo" on Tuesday, December 23, 1879 gives details of this game, the Attending public impressed by the wonderful way of playing, by the Cubans Carlos Zaldo highlighted that for the 1st time in Cuba he bunted the ball that took him to 1st base, I show some photos.

[Roland 49]

1920 Babe Ruth plays 10 games in Cuba vs. Havana and Almendares. The Cuban baseball promoter Abel Linares invites Babe Ruth to play 10 games in Havana for the sum of $20,000 dollars and Ruth accepts and comes with the New York team and his manager John McGraw, also for $3,000 dollars he plays in Santiago de Cuba 2 games in the grounds of Campo Rojo, that was a separate contract by promoters of that city, in one of the games played in Havana the hero was Cristobal Torriente by giving 3 home runs in one game, it is an interesting story, but I mention something about what happened in those days, Ruth, almost every night he went to play Fronton de Jai Alai, and made big bets, also at the Oriental Park Hippodrome, in the end he said that he had lost almost all the money won in Cuba, but I was happy. I show forums of the letter that Ruth sent to Abel Linares accepting the trip, a photo of a ball signed by the one who hit a home run (that ball was going to be mine, but when they took me to the place of sale an hour before, Yuyo Ruiz bought it, I took it to my house the next day so I could see it and have it in my hands) photo of Babe in the Frontón, photo of Almendares 1920 and photo of Campo Rojo in 1904, in 1920 Ruth played on those grounds.

[Roland 49]

Babe Ruth at bat, Almendares Park 1920