The 1946-47 Campo Alegre set is one of the tougher Cuban baseball card
issues of the 1940s. The set contains 50 numbered cards, with an album
they were meant to be glued into. When I was in Cuba around 20 years
ago, I was told that there is also a second series that went from 51 to
100, that also had its own album. To this day I have never seen that
album. It took several years before I saw even one "Series Two" card to
know that they actually existed. As of right now, in the past 20 years
since I started looking for them, I have seen a total of 9 different
cards from the Series Two set, and 11 cards total. All of them are
numbered between 51 and 61. The reason for their scarcity, and why
there's never been a Campo Alegre card numbered higher than 61 ever to
surface is a complete mystery. Needless to say, these are some of rarest
cards in all of Cuban baseball collecting. And there are two of them in
this auction. This lot features card #58 of Tony Zardon. A rare
opportunity to pick up a nearly impossible type card.