1949-50 Acebo card of Negro Leaguer Rafael "Ray" Noble. Graded a 2 by SGC. Rafael Miguel Noble was a Cuban catcher and power hitter who developed in Cuban baseball and the Negro Leagues before reaching MLB with the New York Giants at age 32. Before his major league debut, he played in Cuba’s winter leagues as a standout offensive catcher, earning a reputation as one of the strongest right-handed hitters in Cuban baseball. In the mid-to-late 1940s, Noble played for the New York Cubans in the Negro Leagues, where he was part of their championship core and helped establish himself as a legitimate big-league-caliber catcher.

Issued in Cuba and distributed inside matchboxes, the Acebo set features approximately 115 cards measuring about 1½" x 1¾". The cards use black-and-white or sepia-toned photography with simple player identifications on the front and advertising text on the reverse and share the small-format Caribbean style popular at the time. The set includes Cuban League players, Negro Leaguers, and Major Leaguers, and like most Caribbean cards issued at the time, these are fairly scarce.