Patrick Rock has also stumbled onto something it would never have occurred to me to look for: World War I draft registration records for Cuban players in the United States. They were evidently “resident aliens” (if that was the term then), thus subject to conscription. The records provide heretofore unknown birthdates and other valuable biographical information that otherwise could be quite difficult to obtain.
These are some of the players he’s found, with accompanying birthdates (as best I can make them out):
Bernardo Baró born Feb 27, 1896
Francisco Campos born Jan 27, 1892
Julián Fabelo born March 19, 1890
Alejandro Oms born March 13, 1896
Eustaquio Pedroso born September 20, 1886
Matías Ríos born February 2, 1895
Among other players, Patrick also found Forrest “One Wing” Maddox, born November 30, 1897.
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