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Posted By: Chad

Ahem.


Here's a Denia Marvin Williams and an Aguilitas Oscar Levis. Williams is probably the greatest unknown slugger of all time and Levis one of the best forgotten pitchers.


These guys aren't bad. The greatest Cuban player of all time and a guy who should be in the Hall of Fame but he spent his prime years playing on integrated teams in the Dakotas so the Negro League Committee overlooked him. The Torriente is an Aguilitas Segundas and the Trouppe is a Toleteros from Puerto Rico.


George Scales! Jeff Kent before Jeff Kent was Jeff Kent. A Toleteros from 1950-51 and another Toleteros In Action featuring HOFer Willard Brown and the great and scary badass Vic Harris.


The end of the Negro Leagues created a diaspora of black ball players. The card on the left is a Japanese bromide featuring Jimmy Newberry, one of the first two black players to sign with the Japanese League. And that's Parnell Woods showing up in Oakland to play for the Oaks.


Rufus Lewis was a hell of a player and he has no card, but did manage to weasel his way into this card sized Trinidad y Hno booklet. And that's Tinti Molina from the awesome Billiken set. He played in the early days of the Negro Leagues but, more importantly, he put together the greatest Cuban, maybe the greatest team of all time, together--the Santa Clara Leopardos. It was as if the '27 Yankees has set up shop in Salinas, California.


In the Havana jersey is Isidoro Leon. Just a really cool card from the colorful cuban Victoria set. On the right from the tough tough tough tough Punch set from 1910 is Alfredo Cabrera, one of the early Cubans to play in America against mostly black teams.


That's just a sampling. Yeah, I like this stuff...

--Chad

Oh yeah, sorry for the crappy scans. These cards look even better when I'm not screwing up the scans.