As an addendum to the article on Luis Padrón I published a while back in Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, here’s the smoking gun on the question of Padrón’s throwing hand: a team photo of the New Britain club of the 1908 Connecticut League. Padrón is in the front row on the far left (as we look at the photo), right in front of Armando Marsans. The photo hasn’t been accidentally reversed, as we can tell from the “N” in the New Britain logo on their jerseys; and Padrón is wearing a glove on his left hand, showing him to have thrown right-handed. (Whereas Juan Padrón, the younger, Cuban-American pitcher he has been confused with, was without question a southpaw.)
Apologies for the quality of the image, which comes from an online digital version of the Hartford Courant (April 29, 1908, page 10). I cited this photo in the Base Ball article, but didn’t actually reprint the image, for obvious reasons. There are probably actual prints of this photograph floating around somewhere, or at least a hard copy of the Courant, from which a much better version of the image could be scanned.
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