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Baseball in the Destroyed Cathedral ?Submitted by mjt on 5 January, 2007 - 22:21.
![]() Not sure how to post this request, since it is not really a blog. So, it is done as an "image" (an image, or images, I want to find): I am wondering if anyone has, or can recall, any details regarding some photographic images and postcards in Nicaragua made from shots of boys playing baseball (actually, looked more like stickball, due to the lack of equipment seen in the photos) inside the 1972 earthquake-destroyed Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua Center. The images were probably taken around 1985, give or take a year. I know that a few small posters were made of some of the images (perhaps just 10x20” or so) or they were perhaps used on a calendar, and maybe people simply kept the images after the calendar was rendered useless by time. A friend once had a collection of at least 4 which were made into postcards. I emphasize MADE. They appeared to have been real 4x6 b&w photographic prints affixed to a printed 4x6 card resembling a blank postcard. These and some other more official baseball memorabilia was stolen more than a decade ago, so we have no samples images to post. I have never seen the images used outside Nicaragua. They might have been made in Leon, and sold near the park by vendors. It is possible the images were pirated (taking photos of someone else’s copyrighted images, and then making and selling something out of them). We do not recall seeing a name or photo studio or anything on the postcard side. There is one similar image by Lou Dematteis and it is included in the book he edited, “Nicaragua - A Decade of Revolution” (p.84), but it was taken a different day, with different people playing (mostly adults). If you have seen anything, or know who took the photos or who sold them, I would appreciate any information, posted here or emailed to me directly. Thanks. ( categories: )
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It is possible that same guy took many photographs and some which were in the newspaper were copied by people. I have seen his name quite a few times and I have seen some photos like this but never with a game played by children. If I recall correctly the one or few I saw looked like a bunch of guys doing as much drinking as ball playing! Must have been in the newspaper otherwise I am not sure how I would have come across them. I think there was a restaurant or bar in Leon with an owner who was a diehard baseball fan or local historian or both. I once saw him interviewed in a documentary on tv, which I think was made in Cuba. He spoke about the birth of modern baseball in Nicaragua. There probably is not any connection though to him and the images. I assume because of the Universities but Leon has always had a lot of books and printing done there. Years ago I bought a little book about Dennis Martinez in the park in Leon, but I never saw anything “historical” offered there for sale. And on 2 recent trips in the last few years I didn’t see much of anything historical then either, and a lot of it appeared to be pirated or copied stuff from MLB.