Word: othellos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half of the eighth inning at Parque Delta, home grounds of the Mexico City baseball team Azules de Vera Cruz; the Torreón Laguneros were leading the Azules 3 to 1. Torreón's star Negro shortstop, 26-year-old Othello Renfroe of Jacksonville, Fla., rapped a slow roller to second base and tried to beat the throw to first. Umpire Ramón Montes de Oca, 65, cried "Fuera!" (out). In such a situation Shortstop Renfroe, like another celebrated Othello, found himself little blest with the soft phrase of peace...
...enraged Azules fans began boiling out of the bleachers, police hastily surrounded Othello Renfroe and escorted him two blocks to a police station, where he was fined 250 pesos ($29) for assault & battery. That night, after Torreón had won the game 5 to 4, the Association of Umpires wired Doctor Eduardo Quijano, president of the Mexican Baseball League, announcing that no further umpiring would take place in the league until Renfroe had been expelled. Next morning, before the league had had time to act on the umpires' demand, government agents picked Renfroe up and put him aboard...
...Moor's Pavanne-Othello to music by Purcell. Limón had provided swirling and courtly choreography for his three accompanying dancers (representing lago, Desdemona, Emilia). And with his dramatic, high-cheekboned, deep-eyed face and high-voltage gestures, big Mexican-born Dancer Limón himself was superb as the blackly jealous giant...