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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1978
Sports frontier found south of horde
By United Press International
JUAREZ, Mexico — It may not
help the balance of trade any, but
the United States has created an
eager market south of the border for
another kind of export — baseball
players.
For the players defecting from
the U.S. major leagues and their
farm clubs into Central and South
American teams, Latin-style
baseball often appeals to the pioneer
spirit.
For pitcher Mike Paul, who put
in time with the Texas Rangers,
Chicago Cubs and Cleveland In
dians, the introduction to Mexican
baseball was odd. That was in the
summer of 1976, opening night with
the Tampico Alijadores.
“The park held about 10,000, and
we had about 15,000 in it,” he said.
“I got the first batter out on a fly.”
Then the teams took a five minute
break while a railroad train pulled
through the outfield.
“I said, ‘Welcome to Mexico,
Mike, ” he recalled.
Paul pitched d'A years of major
league ball in the States. Tampico
offered more money than either of
the triple-A farm clubs of the Oak
land A s or the San Francisco
Giants, and so he made the change.
After two years with Tampico, Paul
is now one of four imports with the
Indios of Juarez, just across the Rio
Grande from El Paso, Texas.
He had prepared for Latin
American play long before he left
the major leagues in the states,
leavening out his regular season ex
perience with tours on teams from
Puerto Rico and the Mexican cities
of Los Mochis and Culiacan. The
experience helped — some.
‘When I come down here, I have
to speak Spanish,” he said. “My
Spanish isn’t real correct, but it’s
good enough to get by. I know how
the Latin players feel when they go
to the States.”
The ability to speak Spanish is
more of a problem for another im
port to the Juarez Indios, Jose Del
Moral, from Puerto Rico.
“If you know Spanish,” Del Moral
explained, “you know what they’re
saying about you in the stands.”
Mexican fans are an adventure in
themselves, said John Matias, a to
bacco chewing Hawaiian and
another Juarez import.
“The fans are really great here
when you’re good,” Matais said.
“When you’re bad, they’re like ani
mals.
Walt Williams, a veteran of six
years in the Chicago White Sox out
field, said he finds the zeal of the
Mexican crowds a refreshing change
from the quiet and restrained audi
ences he played for in two years
with a team in Tokyo, Japan.
T like fans. I kid around with
fans,” he said. “I know fans are fans.
They are going to boo you and they
are going to cheer you.”
But while the home crowds are
jrs, onered more mouej^^n^^^^^^vvntm ^(mj^unv^here, l have another Juarez impurt. nut wmie^the home crowds are^^u^t^v^mt^
fun, the imports agree that the road
trips are not. The Indios don’t travel
by air, for one thing. Tours are
made from Juarez by bus — with
trips over Mexican roads as long as
24 hours to Mexico City and 40
hours to Villahermosa.
Still, the Juarez team is a choice
berth for the American players, Paul
said.
“The good thing about it for a
gringo is that when you come home
and get off the bus, you’re close to
the United States,” he said. “Every
gringo who comes to Mexico, seems
like they want to play in Juarez, be-
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A 1968 graduate of the Uiu
of Arizona, Paul rememberst
year with the Texas Rangers,
as the “best year 1 ever
baseball in the major leagu
was rated sixth in the
League with an earned run
of 2.17.
He is doing well in Mesic
so is Juarez.
The Indios have doull
number of wins over losse
have the best record in theS!
League. Paul is rated thefoir
pitcher in the league.
Paul, 32, said heplanstofi
more years and then relit
teaching position or a job in!
taurant business in Tucson,
his wife and daughter live,
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