1909 Cuban Stars of Havana

A Calendar, Including Newspaper Clippings, of the 1909 Cuban Stars of Havana

1909 Cuban Stars of Havana

Stories are placed in order of the date they appeared.

June 8, 1909

Kansas City, MO
"Cubans Too Much for Wabash - Collegians Succeeded in Making One Score in Game with Cuban Stars. - Special to the Freeman. - Crawfordsville, Indiana. The Wabash College baseball team proved easy for the Cuban Stars Tuesday week, losing by a score of 5 to 1. The first part of the contest was a bat fest for the visitors, who landed on Puckett with such regularity and vigor that he was retired in the last of the second, after the Cubans had smashed out six hits. The hitting of the Stars, together with very poor support by the scarlet players, who made several errors in the first two sessions, explains the five runs secured by the islanders. Winnie, succeeding Puckett, was a question mark to the Stars, who were able to get only three more hits during the remainder of the game. Wabash got its only score in the third. Winnie reached first on a bingle and the next three men up were walked by the Cuban twirler, thus forcing in one marker for Wabash. During the remainder of the game neither side was able to score, and the locals settled down to real ball playing. Manager eller has scheduled three more games with the Cuban Stars."

July 9, 1909

Chicago, IL
"Leland Giants Beat Cubans in Deciding Game. - Windy City Boys Bumped the Sphere Hard and Beat Islanders by a Score of 7 to 4. - Special to the Freeman. - Chicago, Illinois. - Lelands won the deciding game of their series with the Cuban Stars yesterday by the score of 7 to 4. The rubber game was bitterly fought by both teams and the Cubans looked to have stowed away in the second inning when doubles to Sanches and Villa, with a single by Magrinat sandwiched in, netted two tallies. The Lelands tied the score by lone tallies in the third and fourth innings on long hits by Ball and Hill, followed by singles, and in the fifth innings put across three runs on the same number of hits, Pete Hill's three bagger putting across most of the runs. Two more runs were added in the eighth on hits and an error by Magrinat. The only error by the Lelands was made by Wright on a bad bounder, but it let Hernandez score after he had hit a three-sack safety. Pete Hill and Mason, the temporary outfielder of the Giants, hit freely for most of the local team's runs."

July 10, 1909

Indianapolis, IN
"What baseball team has a better knowledge of the national game than the Cuban Stars?"