Avelino “Belito” Alvarez with the Negro leagues’ Cuban Stars.
Alvarez played with Habana, Marianao, Almendares and Cienfuegos during eight seasons in the Cuban League from 1934-44.
This photo was up for auction at Mears Monthly Auction in December 2010.
Carl Yastrzemski slides across the plate with Boston’s final run in the eighth inning in the Red Sox’ 8-3 first game victory over Cleveland in Aug. 1963. Catcher Joe Azcue reaches to make the tag, but too late to do any good. (AP Photo/Julian C. Wilson)
SI VAULT: Yaz leads Red Sox to top of American League (8.21.63)
The Painter Heinrich Hoerle Drawing the German Boxing Champion Hein Domgörgen, ca 1927 -by August Sander
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ca. 1880-1910, [tintype portrait of a baseball player catching a ball]
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ca. 1880-1910, [tintype portrait of a baseball player catching a ball]
Boxers and Trainers, Brooklyn, New York, 1978 by George Bennett
Cameramen and White Sox, Spring Training 1938
(Pasadena Public Library / h/t @Go_GoSox)
Dick Allen, Chicago White Sox, 1972 (John Iacono/SI)
SI VAULT: Chicago’s Allen stars in a season of surprises (6.12.72)
Yogi Berra, New York Yankees and Roy Campanella, Brooklyn Dodgers
