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Baseball's big league owners were worried about the loyalty of the help. A few genuine pros had already succumbed to Jorge Pasquel's gold-plated offers of Mexican liberation from serfdom. Many other ballplayers had cocked a sympathetic but suspicious ear. Quite a number had flirted fitfully with Robert Murphy's baseball union (TIME, June 3). Last week, the owners opened an offensive to kill disgruntlement with kindness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Something for the Boys | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...Pasquel v. Hornsby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...JORGE PASQUEL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Raids over the Border | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

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