Alejandro Oms

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
debut
1917, for the New York Cuban Stars
Last appearance
1935, for the New York Cubans
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 51 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.^[1] He was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1944.^[2]

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References[]

• Bjarkman, Peter C. (2005), Diamonds Around the Globe: The Encyclopedia of International Baseball, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-32268-6
• Figueredo, Jorge S. (2003), Cuban Baseball: A Statistical History, 1878–1961, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, ISBN 0-7864-1250-X

External links[]

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

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