(Cuban-born Steve Bellán played from 1871 to 1873 in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players.

Six years before Cincinnati, Marsans and Almeida played "Negro baseball" in the United States as 1905 members of the integrated All Cubans.

Marsans also played Negro league baseball in 1923 for the Cuban Stars (Riley, 514).

Marsans played winter baseball in the Cuban League from 1905 to 1928 and was one of ten players elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in its 1939 inaugural class.

[2] In 1923, he served as manager of the minor league Elmira Pioneers.