Jose Mendez Photo Help

[Jason19th]

I recently picked up this Jose Mendez photo. It is clearly not type 1 but I am trying to figure out where it came from. Unlike most negro league photos we see listed on ebay I cannot find this image anywhere. Has anyone seen this before? Also thoughts about whether the player in the back ground is Cristobal Torriente ?

[jerseygary]

Don't know where it is from or when, except probably Cuba, but before I even read your description I said to myself "that looks like Torriente", especially since I just did a drawing of him recently. I'll look through some Cuban books I have to see if I can find a match to the uniform, but it's pretty non-descript in the photo.

[bcbgcbrcb]

I saw it on e-bay too, never seen that image before. I don't think that Torriente is pictured though and I'm not 100% convinced that it is Mendez either.

[jerseygary]

It looks like there is a patch on the sleeve of the guy cropped off on the left, but I can't make it out. If that is Torriente (and I'm not saying it is) it would probably have to have been taken before 1933.

[packs]

Mendez died in 1928 at the age of 41. I was watching that photo too but I thought the player looked to be older than 41.

[mannybb24]

I don't have much to offer on this photo other than I had the opportunity to buy the original from a Cuban collector friend about a year ago but I passed. I believe he still has it in his possession.

The player in the photo is Mendez, not Torriente.

Steve