Word: beisbol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latin and Negro veterans of Mexican beisbol, who are paid about half as much as U.S. imports, were loudly and rightly proclaiming their superiority on the field...
...week's end, Jorge Pasquel got a dose of his own poison. Vern Stephens, who had jumped down to Vera Cruz for two games, jumped back into his old job with the Browns-at a reported $4,500 hike in pay. As a bargaining stick, Mexico's "beisbol" league could be used both ways...
...late Calixto Carias, "director" of a nonexistent artillery school, returned from a U.S. visit enthusiastic over beisbol* (baseball). Ten years before, his uncle, Dictator-President Tiburcio Carias Andino, had abolished sport teams and clubs in Honduras as possible blinds for political conspiracy. Nephew Calixto got beisbol legalized on the grounds that soldiers should learn to pitch hand grenades. In the shadow of baseball's new legality, futbol (soccer) also mushroomed...
...Latin American sports argot contains many words borrowed from English and Hispanicized. Examples: beisbol, jutbol, tim, picker...
Jorge is No. 1 among three brothers who operate and manipulate the Liga Mexicana de Beisbol (Mexican Baseball League). With the aid of $20,000,000 picked up in a variety of businesses, he has just spirited some 15 U.S. big-league ballplayers off on a Mexican hayride...