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The historic Negro League team the Cuban Giants traveled to the Catskills to take on the Mountain Athletic Club, also know as the Mountain Tourists. The Cubans featured second baseman Bill Galloway who was the last African-American to play in an integrated professional league (for Woodstock of the Canadian League in 1899) until Jackie Robinson played for the Montreal Royals of the International League in 1946. The Cuban Giants would lose 3-1 to the Mountain AC as the scorecard below shows.
The field they played on was built by brothers Julius and Max Fleischmann, natives of Cincinnati who missed watching baseball so they decided to bring the game to their new home in the Catskills.
Here is the scorecard of the game in the photo:
