From 1916 to 1929, the Cuban Stars (East) were owned by
Alex Pompez. 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). From 1916 to 1922 they were an independent team that played in the New York and northeast region of the United States; because of their ties to the area they were also referred to as the New York Cuban Stars early on.
League play and demise
From 1923 to 1928, they competed in the
Eastern Colored League and in 1929 they played in the
American Negro League. After the collapse of the
American Negro League in 1929, Nat Strong re-constituted the Cuban Stars and they competed as an independent team until 1933.
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