Here’s a photograph from Brian Campf, who recently obtained it from friends in Puerto Rico. It shows Josh Gibson shaking hands with Pedrín Zorrilla, a Shell Oil executive and owner of the Santurce Cangrejeros of the Puerto Rican Winter League. Zorilla was a major figure in the history of baseball in Puerto Rico. The date of the photograph is unknown, though one suspects it might have been taken when Gibson first signed for Santurce in 1939.


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