1-7/8x2-5/8". 1945-46 Caramelo Deportivo baseball card set. Printed in black and white on very thin paper, the cards were intended to be pasted into an album. Fronts have a card number but no player identification, which instead appears on the back along with biographical data and the name of the manufacturer. Many former and future Major Leaguers and stars of the Negro Leagues are found on the checklist (found in the Standard Catalogue Of Vintage Baseball Cards), oftentimes marking their only career contemporary baseball card appearance.

Manuel García Carranza (1905 - 1995), nicknamed "Cocaína", was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher and outfielder in the American Negro leagues in the 1920s and 1930s. A native of Manacas, Cuba, García made his Negro leagues debut in 1927 for the Cuban Stars (West). He earned his unusual nickname as a result of batters who "seemed drugged by his pitches and unable to concentrate or focus on the baseball."

Richard Merkin Collection.