1953 Mother's Cookies #54, Piper Davis ⭐ MLB Pioneer
My highest graded minor league card.
After posting my 2nd highest graded minor league card, a 1950 Remar Bread, Mel Duezabou PSA 8; several friends on Mantel have reached out asking what my highest graded minor league card is.
Piper Davis was a talented infielder who starred for the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro League from the late 1930s through the early 1950s. Known for his smooth fielding and powerful bat, he also managed a young Willie Mays during Mays’s early professional career. Davis later broke barriers in the minor leagues, becoming one of the first Black players signed by a Southern team when he joined the Pacific Coast League Oakland Oaks and then the Boston Red Sox organization.

1950 Remar Bread, Oakland Oaks ⭐ Mel Duezabou, Pacific Coast League (PCL)
Mel Duezabou never reached Major League Baseball.
He was a standout minor league baseball player for the Oakland Oaks of the PCL.
The PCL was widely considered "the other major league" during the 1940s and early 50s because it was classified as an "Open League" (above the standard AAA level). At that time, there were no other MLB teams west of St. Louis.
This is my 2nd highest graded minor league card.😎

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