Year |
Dates |
Team |
Record |
Players (Stars) |
1891 |
|
All-Americans |
5-0 |
John McGraw |
1900 |
11/5 to 11/25 |
Brooklyn Superbas |
4-0 |
Hughie Jennings |
1903 |
12/1 to 12/9 |
Cuban X Giants |
2-6-1 |
Rube Foster, Pete Hill & Grant Johnson |
1904 |
10/13 to 1/19 |
Cuban X Giants |
7-2 |
Grant (Home Run) Johnson |
1904 |
10/13 to 1/19 |
Lynn (Massachusetts) |
2-5-1 |
|
1904 |
10/13 to 1/19 |
All-Nations |
1-5 |
|
1904 |
10/13 to 1/19 |
Tampa |
2-6 |
Matty McIntyre |
1904 |
10/13 to 1/19 |
All-Americans |
8-3-1 |
George Davis |
1905 |
10/22 to 12/3 |
Cuban X Giants |
5-4 |
Rube Foster & Pete Hill |
1905 |
10/22 to 12/3 |
Lynn (Massachusetts) |
2-6 |
|
1905 |
10/22 to 12/3 |
Poughkeepsie |
0-1 |
|
1906 |
11/4 to 12/31 |
Cuban X Giants |
7-4 |
Bruce Petway & Pete Hill |
1906 |
11/4 to 12/31 |
All-Americans |
8-6 |
Matty McIntyre |
1907 |
10/10 to 12/29 |
Philadelphia Giants |
10-12-1 |
John Henry Lloyd & Grant Johnson |
1907 |
10/10 to 12/29 |
All-Leaguers |
5-6 |
|
1908 |
10/10 to 12/18 |
Brookyn Royal Giants |
7-6 |
Jude Gans, Pete Hill & Grant Johnson |
1908 |
10/10 to 12/18 |
Cincinnati Reds |
5-5 |
Miller Huggins |
1908 |
10/10 to 12/18 |
Key west |
3-6 |
|
1909 |
10/3 to 12/19 |
Indianapolis |
8-6 |
|
1909 |
10/3 to 12/19 |
Detroit Tigers |
4-8 |
Matty McIntyre |
1909 |
10/3 to 12/19 |
All-Stars |
2-5 |
Addie Joss & Mordecai Brown |
1910 |
10/9 to 12/19 |
Leland Giants |
5-4-1 |
Frank Duncan, John H. Lloyd & Rube Foster |
1910 |
10/9 to 12/19 |
Detroit Tigers |
7-5 |
Ty Cobb & Sam Crawford |
1910 |
10/9 to 12/19 |
Philadelphia Athletics |
4-6 |
Chief Bender & Eddie Plank |
1911 |
11/1 to 12/18 |
New Britain, Conn. |
4-9-1 |
|
1911 |
11/1 to 12/18 |
Philadelphia Phillies |
5-4 |
Sherry Magee |
1911 |
11/1 to 12/18 |
New York Giants |
9-3 |
Christy Mathewson |
1912 |
10/18 to 12/29 |
New Orleans Pelicans |
4-8 |
|
1912 |
10/18 to 12/29 |
Philadelphia Athletics |
10-2 |
Eddie Collins, Frank Baker, Bender & Plank |
1912 |
10/18 to 12/29 |
Lincoln Giants |
4-8 |
Joe (Smokey) Williams & Dick Redding |
1913 |
10/3 to 11/30 |
Birmingham Barons |
8-5-2 |
|
1913 |
10/3 to 11/30 |
Brooklyn Superbas |
10-5 |
Casey Stengel |
1914 |
10/10 to 11/29 |
Lincoln Giants |
4-9-1 |
Louis Santop & Dick Redding |
1914 |
10/10 to 11/29 |
Birmingham Barons |
6-6-1 |
|
1915 |
3/15 to 4/3 |
St. Louis Federals |
7-2 |
Eddie Plank |
1915 |
10/1 to 11/29 |
Indianapolis ABCs |
8-11 |
Oscar Charleston & Dick Redding |
1919 |
10/19 to 12/2 |
Pittsburgh Pirates |
10-6 |
Max Carey |
1920 |
10/16 to 11/28 |
New York Giants |
8-5-4 |
Babe Ruth, Dave Bancroft & Frank Frisch |
1920 |
10/16 to 11/28 |
Bacharach Giants |
1-3 |
Oliver Marcelle, Dick Lundy & Red Ryan |
1921 |
10/17 to 12/6 |
Memphis |
7-11 |
|
1921 |
10/17 to 12/6 |
Brooklyn Dodgers |
10-5 |
Burleigh Grimes |
1925 |
2/5 to 2/17 |
All-Yankees |
5-2-1 |
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1930 |
10/10 to 10/27 |
Ens Stars |
|
Al Lopez, Pie Traynor & Paul Warner |
1930 |
10/10 to 10/27 |
Bancroft Stars |
|
Bill Terry, Sam Rice & Carl Hubbell |
1937 |
2/25 to 3/14 |
New York Giants |
1-3-1 |
Mel Ott |
1937 |
2/25 to 3/14 |
St. Louis Cardinals |
|
Johnny Mize, Leo Durocher & Joe Medwick |
1938 |
10/8 to 10/16 |
Homestead Grays |
2-6 |
Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard & Willie Wells |
1939 |
10/7 to 10/15 |
Homestead Grays |
6-0 |
Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard & Willie Wells |
1940 |
3/21 to 3/31 |
Cincinnati Reds |
1-1-1 |
Ernie Lombardi |
1940 |
3/21 to 3/31 |
St. Louis Cardinals |
3-1 |
Johnny Mize & Enos Slaughter |
1941 |
2/28 to 3/30 |
Brooklyn Dodgers |
2-2-1 |
Pee Wee Reese, Joe Medwick & Paul Warner |
1941 |
2/28 to 3/30 |
Boston Red Sox |
0-1 |
Bobby Doerr, Jimmy Foxx & Joe Cronin |
1942 |
3/4 to 3/8 |
Brooklyn Dodgers |
2-5 |
Pee Wee Reese, Joe Medwick & Billy Herman |
1946 |
March |
Washington Senators |
5-0 |
Mickey Vernon |
1946 |
March |
Boston Red Sox |
|
Ted Williams |
1946 |
October |
NL All-Stars |
5-4 |
Eddie Stanky & Ralph Branca |
1947 |
Feb - March |
Brooklyn Dodgers |
1-0 |
|
1947 |
Feb - March |
Montreal Royals |
3-1-1 |
Jackie Robinson & Roy Campanela |
1947 |
Feb - March |
New York Yankees |
0-1 |
|
1947 |
Feb - March |
Boston Braves |
|
|
1949 |
Mar - Apr |
Philadelphia Athletics |
2-1 |
|
1949 |
Mar - Apr |
Chattanooga Lookouts |
|
|
1950 |
March |
Baltimore Orioles |
|
|
1950 |
March |
Chattanooga Lookouts |
|
|
1953 |
March |
Pittsburgh Pirates |
6-4 |
Ralph Kiner & Joe Garagiola |
1959 |
3/20 to 3/21 |
Los Angeles Dodgers |
|
Don Drysdale & Sandy Koufax |
1959 |
3/20 to 3/21 |
Cincinnati Reds |
|
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The American Series is a Cuban Baseball tradition that began with the arrival
of the All-Americans for a set of games in 1891. Until the end of professional baseball in Cuba Major, Minor and Negro League teams from the U.S. toured the island. They played Cuban League, Amateur and Cuban all-star squads.
The games were very competitive as seen by the won loss records of the visiting teams. The American Series was very popular with the Cuban fans and the Cuban leagues were scheduled around them. Some of the greatest
American baseball players came to the island to play. Men like John McGraw, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, John Henry Lloyd and Oscar Charleston among other Hall of Famers and stars.