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{{Short description|Cuban baseball player (born 1896)}}
{{family name hatnote|Oms|Cosme|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Alejandro Oms
|image=Alejandro Oms.jpg
|image_size=
|caption=
|position=[[Outfielder]]
|bats=Left
|throws=Left
|birth_date={{Birth date|1896|3|13}}
|birth_place=[[Santa Clara, Cuba]]
|death_date={{Death date and age|1946|11|5|1896|3|13}}
|death_place=[[La Habana, Cuba]]
|debutleague=Negro leagues
|debutyear=1917
|debutteam=New York Cuban Stars
|finalleague=Negro leagues
|finalyear=1935
|finalteam=New York Cubans
|statleague=Negro leagues{{efn|On December 16, 2020, Major League Baseball declared the Negro leagues, from the span of 1920–1948, to be a "Major League".<ref>{{cite web|title=MLB officially designates the Negro Leagues as 'Major League'|url=https://www.mlb.com/press-release/press-release-mlb-officially-designates-the-negro-leagues-as-major-league|website=MLB.com|date=December 16, 2020|accessdate=August 7, 2023}}</ref> Oms' statistics reflect his time in the Negro leagues from 1923 to 1928 and his final season in 1935.}}
|stat1label=[[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
|stat1value=.329
|stat2label=[[Home run]]s
|stat2value=31
|stat3label=[[Runs batted in]]
|stat3value=216
|teams=
*[[Cuban Stars (East)|New York Cuban Stars / Cuban Stars (East)]] ({{by|1917}}, {{by|1921}}–{{by|1928}}, {{by|1930}}–{{by|1932}})
*[[Cuban House of David]] ({{by|1931}})
*[[Cuban Stars (West)]] ({{by|1933}})
*[[New York Cubans]] ({{by|1935}})
| hofcolor= blue
| hoflink= Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame
| hoftype= Cuban
| hofdate= 1944
}}

'''Alejandro Oms Cosme''' (March 13, 1896 – November 5, 1946) was a Cuban [[professional baseball]] [[outfielder]] in the [[Negro leagues]] and [[Cuban League]], most notably with the [[Cuban Stars (East)]]. Born in [[Santa Clara, Cuba|Santa Clara]], [[Las Villas Province|Las Villas]], he died at age 50 in [[Havana]].

Oms played winter ball in the [[Cuban League]] from 1922 to 1946. He led the league in [[Batting average (baseball)|batting average]] three times, in 1924/25 (.393), 1928/29 (.432), and 1929/30 (.380), and won the Cuban League's Most Valuable Player Award in 1928/29. He ranks second all-time for career batting average in the Cuban League (behind [[Cristóbal Torriente]]) with an average of .345.<ref>{{citation | last=Figueredo | first=Jorge S. | title=Cuban Baseball: A Statistical History, 1878–1961 | place=Jefferson, North Carolina | publisher=McFarland & Company | page=158, 178, 182, 488, 502, 504 | year=2003 | isbn=0-7864-1250-X }}</ref> He was elected to the [[Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame]] in 1944.<ref>{{citation | last=Bjarkman | first=Peter C. | title=Diamonds Around the Globe: The Encyclopedia of International Baseball | place=Westport, Connecticut | publisher=Greenwood Press | page=65 | year=2005 | isbn=0-313-32268-6}}</ref>

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==External links==
{{Baseballstats|br=o/omsal01}} and [https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=oms---000ale Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats] and [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=oms--01ale Seamheads]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111013190144/http://nlbpa.com/oms_alejandro.html NLB Players Association]

{{Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame}}

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[[Category:19th-century Cuban people]]
[[Category:20th-century Cuban sportsmen]]
[[Category:Baseball outfielders]]
[[Category:Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame inductees]]
[[Category:Cuban baseball players]]
[[Category:Cuban expatriate baseball players in the United States]]
[[Category:Cuban House of David players]]
[[Category:Leopardos de Santa Clara players]]
[[Category:Negro league baseball players from Cuba]]
[[Category:New York Cubans players]]
[[Category:Baseball players from Santa Clara, Cuba]]
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