Armando Marsans
| Armando Marsans | ||
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Runs batted in 221 | | |
| Stolen bases | 171 | |
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| Member of the Cuban | ||
 Baseball Hall of Fame | ||
| Induction | 1939 | |
Armando Marsans Mendiondo (October 3, 1887 – September 3, 1960) was a
Cuban professional baseball player who played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1911 to 1918. He played in three different major leagues in his career: with the Cincinnati Reds in the National League (1911–1914), with the St. Louis Terriers in the Federal League (1914–1915), and with the St. Louis Browns and New York Yankees
(1916–1918).
Biography
Marsans and
disputed by baseball historians
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Playing career
Six years before Cincinnati, Marsans and Almeida played "Negro baseball" in the United States as 1905 members of the integrated All Cubans. Marsans also played Negro league baseball in 1923 for the Cuban Stars (Riley, 514). He is buried at Colon Cemetery, Havana.
Marsans played winter baseball in the Cuban League from 1905 to 1928 and was one of ten players elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in its 1939 inaugural class.
Managerial career
Marsans was also a long-time manager in the Cuban League and won a championship in the winter of 1917 as manager of the Orientals team.Havana Cubans.
See also
Notes
- ^ Players Born in Cuba Baseball-Reference.com
- ^ Figueredo 2003, pp. 123–124, 487, 508.
References
- Figueredo, Jorge S. (2003). Cuban Baseball: A Statistical History, 1878–1961. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-1250-X.
- Riley, James A. (2002). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. 2nd edition. New York: Carroll & Graf Publ. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.
External links
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- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors) and Seamheads
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