I was doing some surfing on the www tonight, wondering if there are any pre-war / tobacco era basketball cards, and came across this website, which says there was a 900 card Cuban multi sport [and non sport] set, 3 series over 4 years, with some basketball players, and provides a checklist.
It's not on TCDb
If anyone wants to borrow that check list, and upload it here, as follows is a link.
https://prewarcards.com/2016/09/06/aguilitas-sets-checklist-serie-artistica-segunda-aguilitas-deportiva-cuban-cards/
and here's a link to an ebay listing, showing what a card from this set looks like [baseball player "Mino"
https://www.ebay.com/itm/204791817754?itmmeta=01HYFJ26BNVMPB5EHZK2P7KMPN&hash=item2fae8b261a:g:V2wAAOSwRvdkEjiq&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4J3EPol1dRcOXvnnEp8ZGQyRGT%2BOxCmo2h8IvkcS72Ihl2ks3xcELW1VgygkH%2FnRotnVPwli2Sz5cMUDCPqSbnqZeHZG6uC1HhbQ6YzLqRnmaOblMkZ4QIrKhL32IiZxeauIUqiELosD0vjfTuWyE%2FN3V2sA5s5Ww3AJf867VsTMA2VPylGHY5%2Ba%2B35w7Pj4Hcp5%2Bxnu1%2B4qyqVLF9cfN6QNV%2BOU5JVrzYMT6aGsch4K55GtAR%2BPnznGqpprHrMhmfHVrY0BnK9VQid6Ef%2BPKubhWRW7h7it0YUfdpK5Csn7%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_TliPLzYw
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