Ron Keurajian's new book

[gnaz01]

Originally Posted by JimStinson

Its quite likely that the toughest autographs in the Baseball Hall of Fame are Cuban born Cristobal Torriente and Jose Mendez. Long before their recent induction into the Hall of Fame I was knocking on doors in Cuba 20 years ago. To my knowledge no autograph of either has ever been offered for sale and was confident that I was one of only maybe two or three people that knew what their autograph even looks like.
Examplars of their autographs will be in the book. I hope I'm wrong BUT wouldn't it be wierd if after the book comes out, so too do signatures of these all time toughies? Naw !!! No way that would happen. Would it ??
Say It ain't so Ron ! Say it ain't so

I believe that after the book comes out, the Roaches will have a few of them on snow white baseballs or, even better, a Cohiba or MonteCristo label , but it wont be seen because it will be item #659

[prewarsports]

Jim

I had alays head that Torriente was illiterate. I would be interested to see what his signature looks like.

[JimStinson]

Numerous records of the day and achives dating to as early as 1913 when he was 20 years old, including ship passage documents all confirm that Cristobal Torriente could indeed read and write.

[JimStinson]

Also I've found that most of the historical information regarding Torriente and his time spent in the United States and where he spent it is wrong. Especially the last few years of his life.

[prewarsports]

Thats cool! Cant wait for the book.

[gnaz01]

Man, I am bummed Just got an email from Amazon that the publishing date was pushed back to sometime in December

[JimStinson]

Thats ONLY three months away anything worth having is worth waiting for

[mighty bombjack]

Originally Posted by gnaz01

Man, I am bummed Just got an email from Amazon that the publishing date was pushed back to sometime in December

A perfect cold weather book in my eyes. Merry Christmas to me!