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Cuban Stars of Havana

Cuban Stars of · 1906–1915

The Cuban Stars of Havana toured the United States for ten seasons from 1906 at a recorded 134-127, playing white semi-professional and Black clubs wherever a game could be arranged. Tinti Molina managed for most of it. The figures rest on surviving box scores and cover a fraction of the games.

José Méndez pitched here and is the reason the club is remembered: in 1908 he beat a touring Cincinnati major-league team and gave up almost nothing across several exhibitions against major-league opposition that winter, which is the performance that made the case, to anyone paying attention, that the color line was not about ability.

Cristóbal Torriente also played here. Both are in the Hall of Fame, elected in 2006 with fifteen other figures from the Negro leagues and Black baseball. The club continued as the Cuban Stars West in the Negro National League from 1916.

Season by season

YearClub WLPct FinishResult Attendance
1906 Cuban Stars of Havana 1014 .417 5
1907 Cuban Stars of Havana 25 .286 4
1908 Cuban Stars of Havana 37 .300 4
1909 Cuban Stars of Havana 85 .615 2
1910 Cuban Stars of Havana 1813 .581 2
1911 Cuban Stars of Havana 1811 .621 1
1912 Cuban Stars of Havana 129 .571 3
1913 Cuban Stars of Havana 1614 .533 4
1914 Cuban Stars of Havana 2320 .535 3
1915 Cuban Stars of Havana 2429 .453 5
Total10 seasons 134127 .513 0 World Series

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