:José Acosta (baseball)

{{Short description|Cuban baseball player (1891–1977)}}

{{Other people||José Acosta (disambiguation){{!}}José Acosta}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=José Acosta

|position=Pitcher / Outfielder

|image=José Acosta (baseball).jpg

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1891|3|4}}

|birth_place=Havana, Cuba

|death_date={{death date and age|1977|11|16|1891|3|4}}

|death_place=Havana, Cuba

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=July 28

|debutyear=1920

|debutteam=Washington Senators

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=May 12

|finalyear=1922

|finalteam=Chicago White Sox

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=10–10

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=4.51

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=45

|teams=

• Habana ({{baseball year|1913}}–{{baseball year|1915}})
• Newark/Long Branch Cubans ({{baseball year|1914}}–1915)
• Orientals ({{baseball year|1916}})
• Vancouver Beavers (1916–{{baseball year|1917}})
• Oakland Oaks (1917)
• Habana ({{baseball year|1918}}
• Rochester Hustlers ({{baseball year|1919}}–{{baseball year|1920}})
• Washington Senators (1920–{{baseball year|1921}})
• Habana (1920–{{baseball year|1923}})
• Mobile Bears ({{baseball year|1922}}–{{baseball year|1926}})
• Kansas City Blues (1922)
• Chicago White Sox (1922)
• Marianao (1923)
• High Point Pointers ({{baseball year|1928}}–{{baseball year|1929}})

| hofcolor= blue

| hoflink= Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame

| hoftype= Cuban

| hofdate= 1958

}}

José Acosta (March 4, 1891 – November 16, 1977) was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher and outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB), the Cuban League, the minor leagues, and the Negro leagues who played three seasons for the Chicago White Sox and Washington Senators. Before joining the white minor leagues, he played the 1915 season in the Negro leagues as a member of the integrated Long Branch Cubans.

Acosta played winter baseball in the Cuban League from 1912 to 1930. He led the league in winning percentage five times: in 1914–15, 1915–16, 1917, 1918–19, and 1924–25. He also led the league in wins in 1918–19 and 1920–21. His best season was in 1918–19 when he had a 16–10 record. He was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1958.Figueredo 2003, pp. 113, 118, 123, 127, 138, 158, 484, 509.