Alejandro Oms

{{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".{{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}} Oms' statistics reflect his time in the Negro leagues from 1923 to 1928 and his final season in 1935.}}

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.329

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=31

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=216

|teams=

• 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, 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 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.{{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 }} He was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1944.{{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}}