Manager Slim Thorpe welcomes Cuban born Roberto Zayas to Lloydminster in 1954, hoping the speedy centerfielder can help the Lloydminster Meridians escape the basement of the Western Canada Baseball League in the coming season.
Roberto Jeronimo Zayas
born Havana, Cuba Sept. 30, 1929
played for the Lloydminster Meridians 1954 to 1958
[photo courtesy of the Lloydminster Regional Arcives]
The 1954 Lloydminster Meridians:
Back row: (l-r) Darrell Martin, Johnny Ford, Arne Thunander, Rick
Herrera, Jerry Quane, Max Weekly, Tom Mulcahy, Ed Tanner, Ron Webb.
Front frow: (l-r) Oswaldo Garcia, Allan Babb (batboy), Chuck McGuigan, Roberto
Zayas, Bob Rosell
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[photo from www.attheplate.com ]
for more on the baseball history of the era see the excellent website
http://www.attheplate.com/wcbl/index.html