New York Cubans

The New York Cubans were a Negro league baseball team that played during the 1930s and from 1939 to 1950.^[2] Despite playing in the Negro leagues, the team occasionally employed white-skinned Hispanic baseball players as well, because Hispanics players were generally ignored by the Major League Baseball teams before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

In 1899, the

About 1930, both Cuban Stars teams folded, but in 1935 Pompez was able to re-create a Cuban team under the new name New York Cubans. In 1935 and 1936, the New York Cubans called historic

Only one other team of the era, the Indianapolis Clowns, boasted a line-up with as many international players as the Cubans did.

With a team that included such notables as

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• Tetelo Vargas is a member of the Puerto Rican and Cuban baseball Hall of Fames, despite never having played a single game in Cuba. His election to the Cuban baseball Hall of Fame has been credited to his participation with the New York Cubans.
• Alex Pompez

On May 29, 2010, the New York Mets wore Cubans uniforms in a game in Milwaukee against the Brewers, who wore Milwaukee Bears uniforms. The Mets then wore this uniform again on August 22 against the Pittsburgh Pirates.^[3]

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