Word: anticircus
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...game and then, when he recovered, it took a decade for him to buy his way back. Establishing a foothold in Chicago last year, he worked 15-hour stints day after day. Still, the Sox finished last. They also drew indifferently, and baseball's anticircus bloc began sounding elegies for Veeck. "I'd never suggested," Bill Veeck said, "that promotion by itself attracts fans. Winning draws fans. Winning plus promotion sets attendance records. Promoting with a last-place team, which is what we had to do last year, is only slightly more difficult than running a benefit...
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