Alex Pompez

Hall of fame inductee

1890 – 1974

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Who was Alex Pompez?

Alejandro "Alex" Pompez was an American executive in Negro league baseball who owned the Cuban Stars 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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Born
May 3, 1890
Key West
Died
Mar 14, 1974

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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