The Cuban Stars were a professional baseball team that competed in the Negro leagues in the eastern United States from 1916 to 1933. The team was largely composed of professional baseball players from Cuba and other Latin American countries.

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The New York Cuban Stars (1916–1935), formally known as the Cuban Stars (East), was a baseball team founded by Cuban American Alejandro “Alex” Pompez.

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The New York Cuban Stars earned second place in their first season in the Eastern Colored League. Honors: Colored Champions (1899), Easter Champions (1897 – 1903), Eastern Co-Champions (1900-1902)

Record: 210 - 271 - 11 (.437) 0 League ChampionshipsTop Hitter Alejandro Oms

Because they carried the same name as another, contemporaneous Cuban baseball team that after 1916 primarily played in the midwestern United States, the two teams are generally distinguished as the Cuban Stars (East) and the Cuban Stars (West).

The version of the Cuban Stars that played on the east coast, in the Eastern Colored League and American Negro League is identified by historians as Cuban Stars (East).

Here’s a passenger list showing players for the eastern Cuban Stars (a different team from Pompez’s New York Cubans, by the way), traveling from Havana to New York aboard the SS Florida on May 14, 1936.

1923 Cuban Stars East 23 - 17 23 - 17 in the Eastern Colored League 1916 / 1924 (Team History) Managed by: Pelayo Chacón (23-17)