Word: pasquels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pasquel v. Hornsby...
...JORGE PASQUEL...
...Hornsby on Pasquel: "He agreed to pay me extra for serving as a pinch hitter, but I never collected that. . . . I left a little ahead of the three months I was scheduled to handle the team, so I figured things were even." Advice to Mexico-jumping ballplayers: "Get all the money deposited in a bank on this side of the border. . . . They have funny standards down there...
...Great 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...
...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...