Rafael Almeida
Rafael Almeida | |
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Havana, Cuba | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
July 4, 1911, for the Cincinnati Reds | |
Last MLB appearance | |
July 18, 1913, for the Cincinnati Reds | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .270 |
Home runs | 3 |
Runs batted in | 46 |
Teams | |
Member of the Cuban | |
Baseball Hall of Fame | |
Induction | 1939 |
Rafael D. Almeida (July 30, 1887 – March 19, 1968) was a Major League Baseball third baseman from 1911 to 1913 with the Cincinnati Reds.
Almeida and
status as a major league is disputed
.
Six years before Cincinnati, Almeida and Marsans both played "Negro baseball" in the United States as 1905 members of the integrated All Cubans.[2]
Almeida played winter baseball in the Cuban League from 1904 to 1925 and was one of ten players elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in its 1939 inaugural class.[3]
Notes
- ^ Players Born in Cuba - Baseball-Reference.com
- ^ Riley, 33
- ^ Figueredo 2003, pp. 484, 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
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Cuban League statistics and player information from Seamheads.com