Word: hausmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pasquel paid them for, by last week were looking pretty sad. The league's leading batter (.383) was Cuba's Claro Duany; and the only high-priced U.S. batsman who was close was ex-Giant Nap Reyes (.375). Onetime major leaguers Luis Olmo, Danny Gardella and George Hausmann had sagged fought, out of the .300 class. The Card's fugitive Max Lanier had won six and lost one, but some of the home-grown pitchers were doing better. Pasquel's favorite club, Vera Cruz, well stocked with U.S. talent, was in last place; Mickey Owen, batting...
...Liberator. Jorge promised more: "I have another very big surprise for the boys in the United States . . . it will happen very soon." It did. Next day the Pasquels, who own two of La Liga Mexicana's eight teams and control the others, rustled off with second-baseman George Hausmann and two other New York Giants. (Hausmann's wife, who had wondered where they would live in overcrowded Manhattan, was encouraged by Pasquel's promise of housing in Mexico.) Next day Pasquel proudly announced that he had signed the Brooklyn Dodgers' No. 1 catcher, Mickey Owen...
Plot. Long before Pearl Harbor a secret radio station was installed under the direction of German Shipping Representative Frederick von Schultz Hausmann in Valparaiso, Chile. Communications were established between Nazi spy headquarters in Hamburg and a far-flung and intricate network of German spies and saboteurs in the Western Hemisphere...