Roman Mejias - Home Run King of the Houston Colts 1962

ROMAN MEJIAS

Home Run King of the 1962 Houston Colt .45s

(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: {short description of image}

With the Pittsburgh Pirates (1955-1961):

1955: Roman Mejias with Roberto Clemente & Felipe Montemayor
1955: Autographed photo

1957 photo (Pirates)

1958 Portrait Photo: Small Large

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

1961 UPI photo with Elroy Face Back of photo

With the Houston Colt .45s (1962):

Portrait Photo Alternate Portrait Photo Batting Photo

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

Info card on Roman Mejias bat

Autographed color photo - 1962

Roman Mejias & Bob Aspromonte Louisville Slugger bats
Info card on the two bats

Colts 1962 facsimile autograph baseball with Mejias signature

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)

1963 Portrait with Red Sox uniform

Mejias slides into 2nd base, breaking up a double play

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

Other:
Scans from Athletic Laboratories (Chicago) 1962 assessment files on Roman Mejias:
Scan 1 Scan 2

Picture Pal license agreement signed in 1963 by Roman Mejias Page 1 Page 2

Autographed index card
Another autographed card
Another autographed card

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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."