Chuck Connors Sports - The Dugout4

"The Dugout 4"

Cuban Winter League with the Almendares Scorpions in the 1948-49 season

This rare 1949 photo of Chuck Connors, famous baseball player & television star, photo taking a movie of another player while playing baseball during his stint in the Cuban winter league predates his "Rifleman" TV days, when the Dodger farmhand was on the Almendares team stocked with players from the Negro league's New York Cubans and Dodgers like Sandy Amoros, Sam Jethroe and Al Gionfriddo.

1950's B/W Photo Cuba Baseball Chuck Connors Havana

Chuck Connors is shown here while playing for Almendares Scorpions in Havana,
Cuba in the early 1950's.
Many players from both the Negro Leagues and Pro Leagues also played in Cuba
during their careers.

The Dugout 1	The Dugout 2	The Dugout 3	The Dugout 5	The Basketball Court
Chuck Connors: "I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have."	Chuck Connors: A Man for all Seasons	Sports & the Sporting Life in New York City by David Hinckley	The Golf Course He had done a lot of Charitable Invitational Golf Tournaments	Chuck played for the Boston Celtics See a picture of Chuck teaching his boys basketball

Sports heroes/stars that appeared with Chuck

Don Drysdale	Sid Gillman	Walter O'Malley	Duke Snider
Chuck Connors	Chuck Connors In Memory of "The Rifleman" 1921 - 1992 © 1992 David Fury	Chuck Connors Obituary	Golf Hall of Fame
The Golf Course	Charitable Invitational — Golf Tournaments	The Basketball Court	Chuck Connors Star on the Hollywood Walk of fame

Now available on Kindle..... Chuck Connors.....The Man Behind the Rifle by David Fury
Edited version of the 1997 book, with lots of new photos, and also a complete Rifleman episode/plot synopsis guide.

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