From the English page of La Lucha, April 20, 1906:
Some of the interesting points here: 1) a rough sense of Luis’s age: he was born in 1879 or early 1880; 2) his trips to Mexico (he also played in Mexico, along with Rogelio Valdés and Carlos Morán, during the winter of 1904-1905); 3) his reputation as a base stealer, and the fact that he didn’t slide; 4) his “peculiar deliveries” as a pitcher; and 5) the claim that “several major league managers” were already interested in him.
Meanwhile, I found a “Juan Padrón” in the U.S. census for 1910: a 12-year-old listed as “white,” living in Key West with his father, also named Juan, a cigar-maker. This fits the age and place of birth that other Negro League historians have given Juan; but there’s no way to be sure this is him.
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