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"This Wednesday night at the ballpark the Puerto Rican All-Stars are going to play the Brooklyn Royal Giants, a Negro league club that was here a year ago. This is the first tour of the Puerto Rican team in the United States. Game starts at 8:15. Men 44 cents and women 28 cents." - Wisconsin State Journal, July 9, 1940
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"The Puerto Ricans are making their first tour of the United States and are considered one of the outstanding attractions in semi-pro ranks. They defeated the Duncan Cementers of Oklahoma, 1939, National Semi-Pro Congress champions, in a series last fall."
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Manager and First Baseman
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Breese Stevens Field
Madison, Wisconsin
BROOKLYN - Tommy Butts; Ralph Burgin; Buddy Burbage; Ameal Brooks; Anthony Cooper; Charlie Rivera; Dave "Showboat" Thomas; Marion Cain; (?) Cresey
PUERTO RICO - Official LBPRC historian, Jorge Colon Delgado, and proprietor of Beisbol101.com, identified for me the pitcher as Rafael Ortiz.
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"CHICAGO (AP) - The winner of the semipro National championship will represent the United States in a "semipro world series" at San Juan, Puerto Rico in mid-September, against the Puerto Rican champions." - Herald And Review (Decatur, Illinois), Tuesday, July 9, 1940
The reining champions at the time were Los Brujos de Guayama; they would be unseated in the 1940-1941 season by Los Criollos de Caguas. In 1942, Hiram Bithorn became the first Puerto Rican to play in the major leagues.
