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Cuban Stars West

Cuban Stars · 1916–1930

The western Cuban Stars were a traveling club like their eastern namesake and played fourteen Negro National League seasons at a recorded 290-482 — every game on the road, against clubs that had a home crowd and a rested roster. Tinti Molina managed all of it, going 305-497, which is the entire managerial record of the club.

Those totals rest on surviving box scores rather than a complete count. Being permanently on the road is itself an explanation for a losing record, and the archive has no way to separate the two.

Cristóbal Torriente played here, a Cuban outfielder whom contemporaries compared to Babe Ruth and who is in the Hall of Fame. The club was one of two carrying the Cuban Stars name in different leagues at the same time, which is why this archive holds each separately.

Season by season

YearClub WLPct FinishResult Attendance
1916 Cuban Stars West 3534 .507 3
1917 Cuban Stars West 1929 .396 4
1918 Cuban Stars West 1723 .425 3
1919 Cuban Stars West 1917 .528 3
1920 Cuban Stars West 3534 .507 5
1922 Cuban Stars West 1641 .281 8
1923 Cuban Stars West 2433 .421 5
1924 Cuban Stars West 1733 .340 7
1925 Cuban Stars West 2031 .392 6
1926 Cuban Stars West 1949 .279 6
1927 Cuban Stars West 2247 .319 6
1928 Cuban Stars West 1341 .241 8
1929 Cuban Stars West 1333 .283 7
1930 Cuban Stars West 2137 .362 7
Total14 seasons 290482 .376 0 World Series

Notable players