On July 19, 1939, the Cuban Stars, a baseball team of the Negro National League, played Tremont Baseball Club and the Tremont Park, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
The announcement of the game included the photo (above) and the following article that appeared in the West Schuylkill Press and Pine Grove Herald, July 14, 1939.
On Wednesday night, July 19th [1939], the Cuban Stars of Havana will be the attraction at the Tremont Park, the game starting at 8:30 standard time.
This season the Stars have a special dispensation from the Bureau of Immigration, Department of Labor, Washington, D. C., which permits them to stay in this country for the duration of the baseball season. They are members of the Negro National League, which includes the Homestead Grays, Philadelphia Stars, Newark Eagles, New York Black Yankees and several other clubs.
The Stars carry fifteen men on their club, all outstanding performers. The big gun in the line-up is Selvino Ruiz, peer of the pitching staff. in 1936, in an exhibition game with the St. Louis Cardinals he shut out the major leaguers with five hits.
When Rudolph Fernandez is on the mound the Stars have a brother battery, as Jose Maria Fernandez does the bulk of the catching.
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News article and photo from Newspapers.com.
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