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Originally Posted by Cusick
Outfielder Jim Zapp died on September 30 at Age 92. He had played in the Negro Leagues for the Baltimore Elite Giants (1945-46), Nashville Cubs (1946), Atlanta Black Crackers (1947), and Birmingham Black Barons (1948, 1954).
The photos show him with the Birmingham Black Barons (left) and Big Spring Broncs (right). They are from the baseballhappenings.net website.
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Love his nickname--"Zipper".
Since Topps had used the Broncs photo in their A&G set years ago, I took a stab at colorizing the Birmingham one. Both images also appear on eBay, with the Barons image coming from a postcard. Unfortunately, that's what the postcard image looks like--there is no sharper or cleaner version of that image in circulation. So the resulting colorization is a bit "toasty".