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Died. Jorge Pasquel, 48, millionaire Mexican sportsman, who successfully lured south some of U.S. baseball's top postwar talent to his Mexican League, e.g., Brooklyn's Mickey Owen, New York's Sal Maglie, St. Louis' Max Lanier; when his private plane crashed with five others aboard; in the mountains near Valles, 225 miles northwest of Mexico City...
...Pasquel offered him $75,000 cash to sign (and double the salary he was getting with the Cardinals). Stan promptly made a date with Cardinal Owner Sam Breadon to say goodbye. But Eddie Dyer, in serious danger of becoming a manager without a ball club, saw Musial first. Stan stayed around, led the league with a .365 batting average, helped win the pennant and the World Series, was elected the league's most valuable player...
...when Musial rejoined the club after 14 months in the Navy, Eddie Dyer was the new manager of the Cardinals. In Mexico, Jorge Pasquel was spending big money to lure U.S. big-leaguers into his Mexican Baseball League, and he was making the biggest eyes of all at the Cardinals. With the clink of gold, he signed up three of themf and he had the Adam's apple of a fourth bobbing like a pogo stick. The fourth man was Stan Musial...
...most baseball writers agreed; but he "would trade his grandmother if the price was right." In his way, he had a certain amount of sentiment for his ball club. Last year, when he flew down to Mexico, rumors spread that he was selling the Cardinals to Mexico's Pasquel Brothers. Sam denied it. Said he, grinning: "The Cards are not for sale . . . that is, [unless] some one wants to pay five times what they're worth...
...games drew 20,000 fans, but games in the sticks drew as few as 55. Most of the U.S. players, lured 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...