in Kansas City, Mo., who participated in a recent panel discussion on Pasquel at Harvard. “I don’t know that you can have one without the other. But what I will say with no uncertainty is that [Pasquel] played a tremendous role helping set the stage for that monumental moment.”
Another time Ramírez showed up at the ballpark in Puebla only to find fans crowding outside the gates. When Pasquel asked why, they said the owner of the land where the ballpark stood had locked them out.Pasquel was a soft touch who made huge donations to charity and would open his wallet when asked for help. But he also had a temper, once killing a man in an Old West-style gunfight in the streets of Nuevo Laredo.
That wasn’t true across the border. When Pasquel and his chauffeur once stepped into a diner in Texas, the manager showed the light-skinned Pasquel to a table but insisted the driver, who was much darker, wait outside. Off the field too. Even when Blacks began integrating the major leagues, they often were barred from the hotels and restaurants their white teammates used. In Mexico City, Pasquel gave his players luxury apartments and when they went on the road, there were no signs telling them which drinking fountains or restrooms to use.
“Here in Mexico, I am a man,” Wells told Pittsburgh Courier sportswriter Wendell Smith. “I can go as far in baseball as I am capable of going.” Antonio Ordeñana, who had been fringe major leaguers. But by 1946 he was all in, offering exorbitant contracts not only to Greenberg, Musial and Feller but also to Ted Williams, Vern Stephens, Phil Rizzuto and Joe DiMaggio.
In response to Pasquel’s raids, major league salaries spiked overnight. Musial’s went from $13,500 in 1946 to $31,000 a year later. Greenberg, already the best-paid player in the game, got a $30,000 raise, while Newhouser, another player Pasquel had enticed, nearly doubled his salary to $70,000.
Sounds like a good screen play
Contributions that impacted game more important than longevity. Acknowledge Pasquale.
In 1920, Argentina had Alejandro Dos Santos playing in the national Squad
THEKIDMERO BabeRuthIsDominican 🧐🧐🧐 😂🤝😂
This is Mexican History right? What does Jackie Robinson have to do with this?
LatinoHeros here we go with the conflationary bs.
Good 'ol LIEtinos
LA Times and their yellow journalism. I dare you to do a major story about the Whitewashing of Latin America instead of stories rooted in lies.
What color? I see 3 wypipo.
STOP LYING YOU ARE NOT FBAF/DOAS.
Just lying…
A white man played baseball in MEXICO with other White Mexicans. 🥱🥱🥱
La Times using revisionist history to undermine Black American history
You can't break a color barrier while classified as 'White' Mexican.
The operative words being, “In Mexico!” The other words being, who gives a damn? This is America🇺🇸 He’s not a descendant of US slaves and those associated generational atrocities. Your comparison is offensive and an ethnic bigotry, racist erasure, attempt.
Latinos were (and in many cases still are) white. This is revisionist history. He broke no color barriers.
this was mexico and a white hispanic! STOP REWRITING HISTORY!
Lies
What the hell does something that happened in Mexico have to do with Jackie Robinson’s accomplishments? You tried it.
Which white guy in the picture is he?
In Mexico…. Ummm how could he break a color barrier in another country That makes absolutely no sense!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 When the 1930 Census classified “Mexican American” as a race, leaders of the community protested vehemently and had the classification changed back to white. They're always trying it.
Was Mexico part of the MBL?
LatinoHeros what do you think?
Chews food….these people white
Jorge is white so what barrier did he break?
LatinoHeros
This is textbook revisionist history.
WWI draft registration from Texas Mexican Americans are white
Latinos stay lying and leeching off Black history and culture. Stop the bs.
This graph and its implications are why Black people are mad about Hispanics despite positive Hispanic actions toward them.
The dominant Caucasian society uses buffer groups like Mexicans (who classify as “white”) to erase the fight of civil rights birthed by Foundational Black Americans (FBA) 🇺🇸. FBAs solely have been breaking color barriers for hundreds of years while building USA. StopBlackHate
Jorge Pasquel was white He was a white millionaire from Mexico The whiteness of Mexicans was clarified in the 1897 case 'In re Rodriguez, 81 F. 337'
He was classed as white simple he wasn’t segregated from white society so stop the cap they are and have no comardary with black people and our struggle FOH
Oh HERE IN AMERICA?
Mexico ain’t got shit to do with the United States of America. Whomever made this must be from the other side of the border
And here is Why we don't Listen to These Media Companies 🙄 Always pushing Lies and Propaganda to Crow Bar Themselves in History 🤦🏾♀️
Actually the NegroLeague players integrated Mexican baseball first. Mexicans had always considered themselves white until they saw the benefit of “minority” status. This was of course after BlackAmericans had done all the heavy lifting.
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