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 Pittsburgh Pirates (1955-1961):
1955: Roman Mejias with
Roberto Clemente & Felipe Montemayor
1955: Autographed photo
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
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)
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
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)
1960 Topps #2 (Pittsburgh Pirates)
(No 1961 card issued)
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
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
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
Cubans in Baseball
Cards
Book:
CLASS AT BAT by Ron Briley (contains an essay on Mejias' career)