Pollock's Cuban Stars were a traveling Negro league baseball team that played from about 1927 to 1936 featuring players primarily from Cuba.
[1] Syd Pollock began booking opponents for the Havana Red Sox in 1927,[2] and bought the club from Ramiro Ramirez in 1928.
[4] By 1929, Pollock introduced comic routines into the games and developed what was to become known as "shadow ball.
[6] These routines would later be made famous in the 1940s by Pollock's Indianapolis Clowns and Abe Saperstein's Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.
They were the only Cuban team permitted to enter the country in March by the United States Immigration Department.