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Bill Veeck spent the balance of his life challenging and bringing change to the business of baseball. A larger than life figure, he was a chain-smoking, charismatic, photogenic redhead with a big open face. He had a deep, compelling voice that writer Dave Kindred said “came as a train in the night.”.
16 de abr. de 2013 · Bill Veeck certainly took note of his father’s supervision of the building of the modern symbols of the Cubs. With attendance on the rise, a second deck was installed at the newly-renamed Wrigley Field over the course of 1926-1928. The Ladies Days promotions made the Cubs a favorite of female fans, a status that continued.
27 de sept. de 2023 · For Veeck to pay Manley and the Eagles $15,000 for Doby (plus another $5,000 once Doby spent 30 days with Cleveland) was a significant show of respect for the Negro Leagues. It’s something Doby’s son, Larry Doby Jr., appreciates. “That’s called integrity,” Doby Jr. says. “He didn’t have to do that.
3 de ene. de 1986 · Bill Veeck, the baseball impresario who once sent a midget to bat as a pinch-hitter for the St. Louis Browns, died yesterday in Chicago at the age of 71 after a 45-year career as one of the most ...
Veeck was a Chicago American sportswriter working under the pseudonym Bill Bailey before Cubs owner William Wrigley Jr. hired him to be vice-president of the baseball club in 1917. Having won the National League pennant in 1918, Wrigley promoted him to president of the club in July 1919.
11 Bill Veeck, with Ed Lion, Veeck-As In Wreck (New York: G.E Putnam’s Sons, 1962), 171-172. 12 Daniel Cattau wrote an article in the April 1991 Chicago Reporter , “Baseball Strikes Out With Black Fans,” in which he recites the story of Landis frustrating Veeck’s plan to buy the Phillies, based on the recollection of Veeck’s widow, Mary Frances.
12 de jun. de 2016 · Bill Veeck irrumpe en las Grandes Ligas. Para muchos de sus contemporáneos, Veeck podría ser considerado un charlatán que ofendía las clásicas tradiciones del béisbol. Para otros fue un innovador quien cambió para siempre la visión de este deporte contribuyendo a que el mismo se convirtiera en un espectáculo para todo tipo de público.
