Word: beisbol
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...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...
...Cubans' ball-handling was about the slickest ever seen in Manhattan's packed and cheering Madison Square Garden. Basketbol shares Cuban sporting fervor with beisbol and boxeo. The season lasts seven months on outdoor, wooden courts. It took Havana's team only ten minutes to get their indoor bearings. From then on split-vision faking and passing kept them always in the lead. The "Caballeros of the Caribbean" go home after two more games: with Canisius at Buffalo early this week, and with Temple at Philadelphia on New Year...