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...boss of Mexican baseball, Jorge Pasquel (TIME, March 11), was having his fun too. The brothers Pasquel, aware that U.S. Baseball Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler had not said a vigorous word against them, blithely offered to make him commissioner of Mexican baseball, at the same salary ($50,006 a year). Brother Jorge, a $6,800 diamond watch on his wrist, offered to devote $20,000,000 of his and his four bachelor brothers'* money to give to Mexico top-drawer baseball. So far, he had spent only about one-fortieth of that on getting U.S. players...
...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...
...Rogers Hornsby, took a fling at it in 1944. quit after he had broken up a game with a grand-slam homer. (The club owner told him he shouldn't have done that, because it would hurt the next day's attendance.) By such showmanship the brothers Pasquel hope to take Mexico's mind off bullfighting. They talk big of plans to lure 30 or 40 U.S. big-leaguers south next year, to increase their three-games-a-week schedule to what they regard as a back-breaking four. The brothers own all eight clubs, in whole...
...Dodgers' Branch Rickey, who spends slowly and talks fast, will miss Olmo, who batted .313 last year. Jorge Pasquel "liberated" Olmo from Rickey for $40,000 for three years...
When the raiding started, organized baseball in the U.S. declared diplomatic warfare on the Liga. The U.S. officially recognized a small-time competitor, the Mexican National League, pointedly ignored the Pasquel circuit, which thus remained "outlaw." Smart Dictator Pasquel affects to be very amused by this. Says he: "Yankee humor...