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Curt_Burner

Mar 18

100 Yr-Old Cardboard 🗝️

Sports Cards

MLB Pioneer

Negro League

Oscar Estrada

St. Louis Browns Great

1926-27 Aguilitas #841, Oscar Estrada ⭐ MLB Pioneer
This card is incredible and it is over 100 years old.
Oscar Estrada is an historically meaningful figure, particularly as part of the wave of Cuban-born players who navigated both the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball, which blurred the strict racial line that existed in MLB at the time.
In other words, Oscar Estrada represents the overlap between Black baseball and Latin baseball, which is often overlooked.
Oscar Estrada's MLB participation was limited in 1929, with the St.Louis Browns, yet still meaningful.
A MLB Pioneer to whom we owe a debt of gratitude.🙏

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