Alejandro Oms

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Alejandro Oms

Outfielder
Born: (1896-03-13)March 13, 1896 Santa Clara, Cuba
Died: November 5, 1946(1946-11-05) (aged 50) La Habana, Cuba
Batted: Left Threw: Left
Negro leagues debut
1917, for the New York Cuban Stars
Last Negro leagues appearance
1935, for the New York Cubans
Negro leagues^[a] statistics
Batting average	.329
Home runs	31
Runs batted in	216
Stats at Baseball Reference

Teams
New York Cuban Stars (1917) Cuban Stars East (1921–1928, 1930–1932) Cuban House of David (1931) Cuban Stars West (1933) New York Cubans (1935)
Member of the Cuban
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	1944

Alejandro Oms Cosme (March 13, 1896 – November 5, 1946) was a Cuban center fielder in Negro league baseball and Latin American baseball, most notably with the Cuban Stars (East). Born in Santa Clara, Las Villas, he died at age 50 in Havana.

Oms played winter ball in the Cuban League from 1922 to 1946. He led the league in batting average three times, in 1924/25 (.393), 1928/29 (.432), and 1929/30 (.380), and won the Cuban League's Most Valuable Player Award in 1928/29. He ranks second all-time for career batting average in the Cuban League (behind Cristóbal Torriente) with an average of .345.^[2] He was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1944.^[3]

Notes

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^ On December 16, 2020, Major League Baseball declared the Negro leagues, from the span of 1920–1948, to be a "Major League".^[1] Oms' statistics reflect his time in the Negro leagues from 1923 to 1928 and his final season in 1935.

References

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^ "MLB officially designates the Negro Leagues as 'Major League'". MLB.com. December 16, 2020. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
^ Figueredo, Jorge S. (2003), Cuban Baseball: A Statistical History, 1878–1961, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, p. 158, 178, 182, 488, 502, 504, ISBN 0-7864-1250-X
^ Bjarkman, Peter C. (2005), Diamonds Around the Globe: The Encyclopedia of International Baseball, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, p. 65, ISBN 0-313-32268-6

External links

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Career statistics from Baseball Reference and Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats and Seamheads
NLB Players Association

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Catchers	Miguel Ángel González Rafael Figarola Regino García Gervasio González Tinti Molina Moisés Quintero Francisco Poyo Gonzalo Sánchez
Infielders	Rafael Almeida Luis Bustamante Antonio María García José Rodríguez Esteban Bellán Armando Cabañas Alfredo Cabrera Román Calzadilla Bert Campaneris Julián Castillo Pelayo Chacón Manuel Cueto Wenceslao Gálvez Valentín González Bienvenido Jiménez Omar Linares Eduardo Machado Antonio Mesa Carlos Zaldo Carlos Morán Antonio Muñoz Oscar Rodríguez Tomás Romañach Emilio Sabourín Lázaro Salazar Rogelio Valdés Zoilo Versalles Tito Fuentes Tony Taylor Leo Cárdenas
Outfielders	Merito Acosta Alfredo Arango Alfredo Arcaño Sandy Amoros Bernardo Baró Ricardo Cabaleiro Jack Calvo Luis Casanova Valentín Dreke Orestes Miñoso Nemesio Guilló Eustaquio Gutiérrez Rafael Hernández Heliodoro Hidalgo Orestes Kindelán Julio López Armando Marsans Antonio Oliva Cristóbal Torriente Ricardo Martínez Alejandro Oms Luis Padrón Emilio Palomino Pablo Ronquillo José Teuma Manuel Villa Juan Violá
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