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2x2-5/8". Cuban card issued as a premium by and is designated by CSG Billiken brand cigars. Cards in this set feature players from the 1923-24 Cuban Professional League. The set includes 15 cards each for the four teams that participated that season: Almendares, Habana, Marianao, and Santa Clara. Glossy front features a b/w photo, player's name and team. The back of the card has an ad for "Billiken." Cards in this elusive set are among the scarcest and most popular of the pre-war Cuban issues.
Alejandro Rogelio Crespo was a Cuban baseball second baseman who played in the Negro Leagues. He played professionally from 1918 to 1933 with several teams including the Cuban Stars (East), Cuban Stars of Havana, Gilkerson's Union Giants, and the Chicago Giants. He was inducted into the Cuban Baseball HOF in 1962. Designated by CSG as being from the "Richard Merkin Collection".
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