[Cusick]

Javier "Blue" Perez, 3B, is shown in the uniform of the Homestead Grays. There was previously a photo of Javier posted on this thread showing him in a Negro Leagues uniform -- that of the New York Cubans. The reason I posted this photo is that I pondered quite a while on whether this player was Jose Perez or Javier Perez. The caption of the source photo called him Jose "Blue" Perez, a third baseman. The source photo was a picture of the 1937 Homestead Grays. The Negro Baseball Register, by Clark and Lester, has Jose Perez's career ending in 1937 and has him playing with the Homestead Grays, whereas Javier Perez's career doesn't begin until 1942 and he doesn't play for the Homestead Grays. But other sources contradict Clark and Lester. James Riley's encyclopedia has Javier Perez with the Grays in 1937. Baseball-reference.com also has Javier Perez with the Grays in 1937. The Seamheads.com database doesn't go any later than 1936, but it looks like they conclude that Jose Perez's Negro Leagues career has ended by then. A photo of Jose from the 1920's looks as though his face had fully filled out, and that he would have looked older by 1937 than this fellow in the Grays uniform in 1937. So all that left me to conclude that this is Javier "Blue" Perez.