Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already won letters in baseball, football, basketball and track), the Negro Bacharach Giants offered him $50 a weekend. That was the end of school as far as Campy was concerned. After he left the Bacharach Giants, he went with the Baltimore Elite Giants, backstopped in the eastern U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba in the next few years...
Then the Worker's editors discovered that Boysen was of Puerto Rican descent. The issue was plain as a picket's placard: the case had sinister overtones of Jim Crowism and white supremacy. In a furious editorial the Worker slapped down its sportwriters : "We regret that [they] should have tended in one case to minimize and in the other case to overlook this social aspect of the Durocher case, their comments ranging from a 'let's-hear-from-both-sides' to a 'it's-too-difficult-to-judge' attitude...
...Polo Grounds to the Giants' dugout. The public-address system blared a recording of When You Were Sweet Sixteen ("I love you as I never loved before"), and his team clobbered the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 11-4. This week, on advice of counsel, Fred Boysen, the young Puerto Rican who tangled with Durocher, dropped his charge of simple assault...
Most raucous needier was a zoot-suited, jobless young Puerto Rican named Fred Boysen, who had somehow wangled a $2.50 box seat. Boysen's view, as he expressed it later, is that "the fun of baseball" is kibitzing; a big-league manager should be able to take it. He dished it out. He spat in Durocher's direction and said: "Here, Leo, this is for you." As five hapless Giant pitchers were mauled, he cried at the Giant boss: "Why don't you go in and pitch yourself, you monkey?" Leo also said he heard Fan Boysen...
...Luis is sure that the only fundamental cure for his island's troubles is more plants, more jobs and more goods at home. If Puerto Rico can build up industry, and get on top in her battle of production, then a growing population will be an asset instead of a liability. For Muñoz and his people the slogan is still: "Jalda Arriba...