Word: beisbol
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...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...
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...