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Once Over Lightly---• (Continued from Page 20) i available Until our Mexican league Up to last season, - Pasquel's j is as good, as the maior leagues in greatest catch was Rogers Horns-1 the United Stales ”by, who managed the Vera Cruz1 ------team in 1944, IMany of Mexico's wealthiest1 men own the various franchises,! while the Pasquel family own the • franchises for Mexico City and Vera Cruz. II. H. Fleischmann,- an American, holder of the Coca-Cola: franchise and the city’s wealthiest • eitizen, has the Tampico club.I Rather confusing is the fact ! that Pasquel owns all the ball I j parks in the league. Admission; ranges from Hi pesos (30 cents) : to seven pesos ($1.45) for the few,: box seals. Pasquel collects lb per! 1 cent for rent on the .parks and the I remainder is placed in a pool,| which is divided equally among 1 the clubs, thus offsetting the limited capacity of the Neuvo Laredo, J , Tampico and San Luis parks,; which seat less than 10,000.! The parks, including the most i modern in Mexico City, rate about ■; with our class B fields. None of j i them except Mexico City, have •■ showers or dressing rooms. How-: ever, Pasquel's program includes j modern, elaborate parks in every j ! city, which will have lights for j ; night baseball. The three-a-week1 ! schedule is expected to be replaced ’: by daily games. j! _ As baseball season approaches,it is safe to say that many of our •sports headlines during the com-! ing months will deal with the: Mexican-U. S. baseball situation, i For, as Pasquel left for home, he1 reaterated his threat,'I will com-1 pete dollar for dollar with organ- '• wer) baseball for the best talent1 i
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Long Beach Independent
Long Beach, California, US
Thu, Jan 16, 1947
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