This contract signed by Perucho Cepeda to play for the San Juan team of the Puerto Rican League in 1943-1944, earned him a salary of $40.00 and is dated OCT 30 1943. Widely considered to be destined for Hall of Fame enshrinement had Major League Baseball not been saddled with racial baggage, the elder Cepeda hit .465 at the age of 32 to win the batting crown in the Puerto Rican Leagues first season. He also won the subsequent two titles averaging .383 over the next two years. He retired in 1950 with a career average of .325; having turned down several offers to play in the U.S. Negro Leagues for fear that his volatile temper mixed with a charged racial environment would be problematic. NRMT sigs and EX+ contract.