ROMAN
MEJIAS
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF ROMAN MEJIAS
(compiled from the Colts player booklet, playing cards, Internet
pages
and Ron Briley's essay in "Class
at
Bat")
1962 PLAYER BOOKLET ABOUT ROMAN MEJIAS:
Front Cover (.jpg format)
Booklet - Part 1 (in .PDF Adobe
Acrobat
format)
Booklet - Part 2 (in .PDF Adobe
Acrobat
format)
Booklet - Part 3 (in .PDF Adobe
Acrobat
format)
Booklet - Part 4 (in .PDF Adobe
Acrobat
format)
Booklet - Part 5 (in .PDF Adobe
Acrobat
format)
Booklet - Part 6 (in .PDF Adobe
Acrobat
format)
Booklet - Part 7 (in .PDF Adobe
Acrobat
format)
Back Cover (.jpg format)
1962 COLTS YEARBOOK - PAGE ABOUT ROMAN MEJIAS: Regular
size scan Large
size scan
ROMAN MEJIAS PICTURE FILES:
With the Waco Pirates
(1954)
#25
of
100
Top Minor League teams of all time
With the Pittsburgh Pirates (1955-1961):
1955: Roman Mejias with
Roberto Clemente & Felipe Montemayor
1955: Autographed photo
1955 Roman Mejias
APBA card
1957 Wirephoto - Roman injured (muscle
stitch), in wheelchair (4/23/57) Front
Back
1957 AP Wirephoto
- with Frank Torre
1957 photo (Polo
Grounds - 7/6/57)
1958 Portrait
Photo: Small
Large
1958 Pirates Team Photo
Closeup -
Mejias
1958
AP
Wirephoto
(Havana,
Cuba)
1958
photo
with
Frank Thomas
Same photo,
with AP crop marks and masking
Cropped
photo Cropped photo as
published in paper
6-19-58
-
Going
after ball in left field (AP Wirephoto)
Cropped
1959 Pirates Team Photo
Closeup -
Mejias
1959 UPI photo with
Elroy
Face (6/26/59)
Back
of photo
Post
card (published by George Brace), autographed by Roman Mejias
With the
Columbus Jets farm
team
(1961):
Photo and background
information from Colt .45s 1961 draft file:
Portrait Photo:
Small
Medium
Large
Player
information:
Page 1 (Biography)
Page 2 (Seasonal
stats)
Page 3 (Lifetime stats)
With the Houston Colt .45s (1962):
Portrait
Photo
Autographed
Portrait
Photo
Alternate Portrait Photo
Batting Photo
1962 Roman
Mejias postcard by Jim Elder
Large
scan of postcard
(scan provided by Lance Fittro)
UPI photo 5-5-62
- sliding into 3rd base in Milwaukee
Back
of
photo
(description)
UPI photo 6-13-62 -
sliding home against Mets
With
Dick Farrell after multiple home run games in Milwaukee
(5-6-62)
Roman speaks during pre-game ceremonies
"Roman Holidays" - Roman runs the bases on an inside-the-park home run
1962 Topps Card
- FRONT
1962 Topps Card - BACK
Roman
Mejias'
profile:
1962 Colts Yearbook
Roman
Mejias' profile: Houston Press April 10, 1962
Roman
Mejias
&
Bob
Aspromonte
Louisville Slugger bats
Info card
on the two bats
Photo of
Roman Mejias with the bat
With the Boston Red Sox (1963):
Reunited
with
his
wife at Phoenix
airport (AP wirephoto 3-16-63)
Larger
photo
With
family at Phoenix airport (AP photo 3-16-63)
The Spalding "Roman Mejias" 3-Finger Baseball Glove
(1959)
This is a Roman Mejias glove that is very rare and
unlisted
in the glove collector book. It is a three finger glove, a Spalding
1247, "triple
play" in great condition. It has a spot on the pinkie finger and the
owners name on the strap. This glove was
made in 1959.
Closeup
of Roman Mejias
name
View 1
View 2
View 3 View 4
2nd copy of glove: View 1
View 2
View 3
"Roman Mejias" 5-Finger Baseball
Glove Photo of glove
Various views
of glove
Other:
Scans from Athletic Laboratories (Chicago) 1962 assessment files
on Roman Mejias:
Scan 1
Scan 2
Strat-O-Matic Card: Front
Back
Picture Pal license agreement signed in 1963 by Roman
Mejias
Page 1
Page 2
Autographed sheet
Autographed
index
card
with 1955 rookie note
Autographed index
card
Another autographed card
Another autographed card
Click
here
for
larger image
The
Houston Chronicle newspaper published six pairs of "Houston Colt 45's
Scrapbook"
player bios in the spring of 1962. The weekly "scrapbook" featurette,
presented
in the paper's Sunday color comics section, was part of an area-wide
effort
to promote the city's new Major League Baseball team. It featured
pen-and-ink
drawings and short biographies of the new team's most promising
players,
and offered a coloring contest for children age 6 to 14. The prize for
that contest was a "Colt Sixshooter Membership," which included a Colt
T-shirt, tickets to four games and a souvenir "Six Gun."
Among the players in this set was Roman Mejias, the Colt .45s' first
star slugger. (Click on image for larger view)
Roman Mejias - Japan 1966 - as a player for the Sankei Atoms (from souvenir postcards):
ROMAN
MEJIAS BASEBALL CARDS
(These are all the known Roman Mejias baseball cards)
1957 Topps #362 (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1958 Topps #452 (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1959 Topps #218 (Pittsburgh Pirates)
BACK
1959 Dell Magazine
card (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1959 Baseball
Register Panel
1960 Topps #2 (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1960 Dell Magazine
card (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1961 Dell Magazine card
(Pittsburgh Pirates)
1962 Topps #354 (Houston Colt .45s)
FRONT BACK
1963 Jello #186 (Houston Colt .45s)
1963 Post Cereal #186
(Houston
Colt .45s)
1963 Topps #432 (Boston Red Sox)
AUTOGRAPHED CARD Back
of card
1963 Dell Magazine card
1963 Whitestone panel
1964 Topps #186 (Boston Red Sox)
FRONT BACK
SOUND
FILES:
Roman Mejias: 9th Inning Winning Home Run
Roman Mejias: Home Run for 15 game hitting
streak
Roman Mejias: First Inside-the-Park Home Run
in Colt Stadium
ROMAN MEJIAS LINKS:
STATISTICS: Pre-1962
(including
farm clubs)
STATISTICS:
American
&
National League (from Baseball-Almanac.com)
STATISTICS:
MLB
(from
Baseball-Reference.com)
STATISTICS:
from Retrosheet.org (includes links for top performances, pitcher
matchups,
etc.)
STATISTICS: Japan League
(Thanks
to
Gary Garland for this info from his website JAPAN
BASEBALL DAILY)
Player
Profile
-
Roman Mejias
Astroland webpage about
Roman Mejias
A VISIT WITH ROMAN MEJIAS by
Jack Heyde (from "Pop Flies and Line Drives" (1999)
Cubans in Baseball
Cards
Book:
CLASS
AT
BAT by Ron Briley (contains an essay on Mejias' career)
Essay by Ron
Briley (9/22/01)
Roman
Mejias'
baseball
uniforms through the years (from Baseball-Reference
& The Baseball Hall of Fame)
