This SGC VG-EX 4 grade shows a card far above average condition for such a fragile set. Corners, edges, and surfaces all look unusually sharp. Billiken collectors known that when your main problem with one of those cards is its centering, you're looking at a great card!

Based on their surviving baseball cards alone, Cuban baseball seems full of players who spent 15-20 years as professionals, and Isidro Fabre is no exception. This winter league set shows him in the cap for Alemendares, who benefited from Isidro's excellent pitching for several seasons. He went on to a long career with the Negro League and Black baseball teams of Cuban stars, reaching the country's Baseball Hall of Fame in 1957.

1923-24 Billikens were produced for that winter league baseball season as cigar premiums during a short, active period for Cuban card issues. They feature real player photos, leaving them somewhat more vulnerable to fading and handling damage than more conventional cardboard sets. They can retain beautiful detail and document a number of players from that era who don't appear on many cards or photos. Love of the Game is pleased to offer several cards from this set as part of our larger offering of Cuban issues.