Cuban House of David

The Cuban House of David were a traveling Negro league baseball team that played from about 1928 to 1936 featuring players primarily from Cuba.[1]

Cuban House of David
(c.1928–1936)
South Florida
League affiliation(s)
Name(s)
  • Havana Red Sox (1928–1929)
  • Florida Cuban Giants (1930)
  • Cuban House of David (1931)
  • Pollock's Cuban Stars (1932-1936)
Ballpark(s)
No home ballpark

History

Syd Pollock bought the Havana Red Sox from Ramiro Ramirez in 1928.[2] Ramirez stayed on as the manager and the team began barnstorming around Miami. In 1930, Pollock changed the name of the team to the Florida Cuban Giants and soon after Pollock introduced comic routines into the games and developed what was to become known as "shadow ball."[3] Shadow ball was when the infielders would mime throwing a ball around for between-inning warm-ups. These routines would later be made famous in the 1940s by Pollock's Indianapolis Clowns and Abe Saperstein's Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.

In 1931, they were an associate team in the Negro National League[4]: 5  and operated under the Cuban House of David name which Pollock appropriated from the original House of David, a white commune known for their bearded baseball players. The team joined the East–West League in 1932 as Pollock's Cuban Stars.[5] The returned as an independent team still under the "Pollock's Cuban Stars" moniker from 1933 until 1936.

For all three years of the club's existence, they were managed by Ramiro Ramírez.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Pollock's Cuban Stars franchise history at Seamheads.com". seamheads.com. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
  2. "History of the Indianapolis Clowns" (PDF). Center for Negro League Baseball Research. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  3. Carroll, Brian. "Black Baseball's "Funmakers": Taking the Miami Ethiopian Clowns Seriously". Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  4. "Negro National League Standings (1920-1948)" (PDF). Center for Negro League Baseball Research. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  5. Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.
  6. "Ramiro Ramírez manager profile at Seamheads.com". seamheads.com. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
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