TheCuban Stars were aprofessional baseball team that competed in theNegro leagues in the easternUnited States from 1916 to 1933. The team was largely composed of professionalbaseball players fromCuba and otherLatin American countries. They generally were atraveling team that played onlyroad games. From 1916 to 1929, the Cuban Stars were owned byAlex Pompez.

Historians generally refer to the team as theCuban Stars (East) or theNew York Cuban Stars, to differentiate them from another Negro league team also named the Cuban Stars (theCuban Stars (West)) that existed in the Midwest around the same time.

Because they carried the same name as another, contemporaneous Cuban baseball team that after 1916 primarily played in the midwestern United States, the two teams are generally distinguished as the Cuban Stars (East) and theCuban Stars (West). From 1916 to 1922 they were an independent team that played in the New York and northeast region of the United States.

From 1923 to 1928, they competed in theEastern Colored League and in 1929 they played in theAmerican Negro League. After the collapse of theAmerican Negro League in 1929, Nat Strong re-constituted the Cuban Stars and they competed as an independent team until 1933.

In 1935, Pompez reconstituted a Cuban team in the secondNegro National League that became known as theNew York Cubans.

• Francisco Coimbre – P, RF
• Martín Dihigo – 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, P, 1922–27, 1930^[2]
• Emilio Navarro – 3B, SS, 1928–29^[3]
• Alejandro Oms – OF (primarily CF), 1917, 1922–28, 1930–32^[4]

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• Team history and statistics fromseamheads.com · baseball-reference.com

• Team history and statistics fromseamheads.com (Reincarnate)

• Afro-Caribbean culture in the United States
• Afro-Cuban culture
• Afro-Latino culture in the United States
• Cuban-American culture in New York (state)
• Negro league baseball teams
• Defunct baseball teams in New York City
• Baseball teams disestablished in 1929
• Baseball teams established in 1916
• Traveling teams

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