Alejandro "Alex" Pompez (May 3, 1890 – March 14, 1974) was an American executive in Negro league baseball who owned the Cuban Stars (East) and New York Cubans franchises from 1916 to 1950. His family had immigrated from Cuba, where his father was a lawyer. Outside of baseball and numbers, he had owned and operated a cigar shop in downtown Manhattan. He later served as a scout and director of international scouting for the Giants franchise in Major League Baseball. He was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.
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14 May 1890 Key West, Florida
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Died |
14 March 1974 (aged 83)
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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