Armando Marsans
Armando Marsans Mendiondo was a Cuban professional baseball outfielder, first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball, minor league baseball, the Negro leagues, the Cuban League and the Mexican League. He played and occasionally was a player-manager from 1904 to 1927, and then went on to manage in the Mexican League and the Florida International League for four seasons between 1945 and 1953.
Mara and played in three different major leagues in his career: with the Cincinnati Reds in the National League, with the St. Louis Terriers in the Federal League, and with the St. Louis Browns and New York Yankees.
Biography
Marsans and Rafael Almeida debuted together with the Reds on July 4, 1911. They are sometimes named the first major league players born in Cuba, which is untrue since Havana-born Chick Pedroes played in the National League in 1902..Playing career
Six years before Cincinnati, Marsans and Almeida played "Negro baseball" in the United States as 1905 members of the integrated All Cubans. Marsans also played Negro league baseball in 1923 for the Cuban Stars. He is buried at Colon Cemetery, Havana.Marsans played winter baseball in the Cuban League from 1905 to 1928 and was one of ten players elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in its 1939 inaugural class.