Soccer, Football and Baseball in Mexico by the New York Yankees
against Pasquel and the Mexican Baseball League. According to
the Yankees, Pasquel and his agents had violated the law when
they invited Yankee players to leave New York to play in Mexico.
Setting aside the means by which players were convinced to
depart, the truth is that during this period many players, from
the Yankees and other professional teams, left the United States
to play in Mexico under the patronage of Pasquel (New York
Times, May 5, 1946). Sergio Silva Castañeda is DRCLAS Senior
Fellow, Mexico and Central America Program, and a Lecturer in
History at Harvard. A native of Mexico City, he studied
economics at CIDE in Mexico and received a Ph.D. in Latin
American History at Harvard. This article is dedicated to the
memory of his aunt Isabel Castilleja.