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Title: Album Carmelo Deportivo, Serie de Baseball 1945-46 Author: ** Place: [Havana] Publisher: Date: [c. 1946] Description: 14 pp. 99 (of 100) mounted cards + 1 unmounted duplicate. 10½x8¼, printed wrappers. The "cards", photographs printed on newsprint and originally distributed in candy packages, depict Cuban and African-American baseball players. Included are cards of Raymond Dandridge and Booker McDaniels as well as Hall-of-Famers Sal Maglie and Minnie Minoso. Cards also include several team flags, umpires, etc. Lacking the card for Napoleon Reyes and with a duplicate of Booker McDaniels (unmounted). Lot Amendments Condition: Wrappers detached, heavily chipped and with amateur paper tape repairs at edges and clear tape repairs to inside covers; one leaf detached, page edges a bit rough; else very good. Item number: 185105