Word: beisbol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puzzlement of parents, many a daughter comes home bubbling about the terrific nocaut at the fights or the jonrons which piled up the escor at the beisbol game. But if her deit was real quiut, she might say very little about how they spent the evening-parqueando...
...midst of a torrid political campaign, some years ago, in a Central American country, Pitcher Leroy ("Satchel") Paige and his barnstorming Negro team arrived in town. One of the candidates, a longtime aficionado of beisbol and Satchel, made his rival a sporting proposition: let the election turn on the game; he would bet on Satchel, and whoever won the bet would win the election. The bet was made. Satchel won in a breeze, but. didn't stick around for thanks: he detected the flash of machetes from the defeated candidate's supporters...
...Mexican beisbol ended its disastrous 1947 season last week. Mexican fans would rather see a bull killed than hear a baseball umpire threatened with death. Experts guessed that Mexico's wealthy Pasquel brothers had lost 750,000 pesos (about $150,000) this season...
...with fat salaries and fanfare a year ago (and banished from U.S. baseball for five years), had collected their salaries and played generally lackluster ball. Clearly, the Brothers Pasquel were through raiding U.S. talent. In fact, a good many Mexicans were ready to bet last week that the Mexican beisbol league itself was about through...
Back in the U.S., he cut loose with a Jan Valtin horror story of Mexican beisbol. Mickey recalled the first time he saw Mexico City's Nuevo Laredo Park. At first he wondered why it looked so familiar; then he realized he had seen it before in nightmares, bumpy infield, wobbly stands and all. "If some of those Mexican henchmen didn't think you were hustling to their satisfaction," said Mickey, "they'd sidle up to you and stick a gun in your ribs. . . . It just scared the hell out of me." To hear Mickey tell...