Jerry Kuntz, who has written on baseball promoter and aviation pioneer Alfred W. Lawson, tipped me off that Google has digitized one of the most important early works of Cuban baseball history, El Base Ball en Cuba y América, by Ramón S. de Mendoza, José María Herrero, and Manual F. Calcines, three sportswriters from the Diaro de la Marina newspaper. There’s a lot of great material here (almost all in Spanish, of course) about early Cuban League seasons and players, the growth of baseball in various provincial towns, and the summer league, among other subjects.
Google scanned a copy from Harvard that had originally belonged to one José Augusto Escoto of Matanzas, who is probably the José Escoto who played second base for the Eminencia club in the 1905 Premio de Verano and for Rojo in the 1906 Premio de Verano (but never appeared in the Cuban winter league).
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