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
"The batting star of the Pirates was 22-year-old right-handed hitting outfielder Roman Mejias, a native of Abreu, Las Villas, Cuba, who now resides in Los Angeles. Mejias hit.354-15-141 in 139 games. He led the league in doubles (49), was second in RBI and total bases (316) and fourth in batting. Mejias hit safely in 55 consecutive games, setting a record for lower classification leagues. The streak, which ended August 2, coincided with Waco’s surge into its commanding lead. Mejias jumped all the way to Pittsburgh the next season and spent all or part of nine years in the majors with Pittsburgh, Houston and Boston, compiling a .254-54-202 record in 627 games. His best year was 1962 with Houston when he hit .286-24-76 in 146 games."
With the Pittsburgh Pirates (1955-1961):
1955: Roman Mejias with
Roberto Clemente & Felipe Montemayor
1955: Autographed photo
1955 Roman Mejias
APBA card
1955 Pirates team
photo
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 2nd copy of photo
Same photo,
with AP crop marks and masking
Cropped
photo Cropped photo as
published in paper
In 1978, this photo was used for a "Red Sox Legend" baseball
card: Front
Back
1958 AP
Wirephoto - with Dick Stuart, Ed Parker & Duke Zilber
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 Another copy of
this photo
8-16-59
Wirephoto (throwing helmet) Back
of photo Another copy of
this photo
Late 50's photo
(Pirates) 1957 Pirates portrait
1959 Pirates portrait 1
1959 Pirates portrait 2
Autographed TCMA
card - 1960 Pirates Back of card
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)
Autographed card (from
Jets Stadium)
With the Houston Colt .45s (1962):
Portrait
Photo
Autographed
Portrait
Photo
Alternate Portrait Photo 1
Autographed
alternate portrait
Alternate Portrait
Photo 2
(Wirephoto 3/9/63)
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
Three more photos of the bat: View 1
View 2
View 3
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
Index
card inscribed to David Mussey
Index
card inscribed to Andy Gerry
Autograph (blue ink)
Roman Mejias autographed
baseball
Roman
Mejias autographed baseball with letter of authenticity
Another bseball
autographed by Roman Mejias
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)
Another copy of this card: Front
Back
1958 Topps #452 (Pittsburgh Pirates)
Another copy of this card: Front
Back
Autographed
photo card
1959 Topps #218 (Pittsburgh Pirates)
BACK
Another copy of this card: Front
Back
1959 Dell Magazine
card (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1959 Baseball
Register Panel
1960 Topps #2 (Pittsburgh Pirates)
Another copy of this
card: Front
Back
1960 Dell Magazine
card (Pittsburgh Pirates)
Autographed
TCMA 1960 Pirates card Back of card
1961 Dell Magazine card
(Pittsburgh Pirates)
1962 Topps #354 (Houston Colt .45s)
FRONT BACK
1963 Jello #186 (Houston Colt .45s)
Mejias
Jello
card
with
near-complete
box Complete
Mejias Jello box: Front
Back
1963 Post Cereal #186
(Houston
Colt .45s)
1963 Topps #432 (Boston Red Sox)
AUTOGRAPHED CARD
Back
of card Autographed
photo card
1963 Dell Magazine card
1963 Whitestone panel
1964 Topps #186 (Boston Red Sox)
FRONT BACK
Another copy of this
card: Front
Back
1978 Boston Globe card: FRONT
BACK
(2005) 1955 Star Rookie Card: ROMAN MEJIAS & ROBERTO
CLEMENTE Front of card
Back
of card
SOUND
FILES
and
VIDEOS:
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
YouTube:
Color video clip of the 1962 Colt .45s includes footage of Roman Mejias
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)
Astrosdaily.com
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)
