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...Chicago, Peg-Legged Bill Veeck (see box page 76), dressed as a Revolutionary soldier and playing a fife, stumped triumphantly across the 100% natural turf he has restored to Comiskey Park. Marching to Veeck's tune were White Sox fans in unheard-of numbers. There were 40,318 in the flesh at opening day (compared with 20,202 last year), season-ticket sales were up more than 40%, and a franchise that had been ready as late as December 1975 to blow the Windy City looked solid as a line-drive double-all because the greatest promoter baseball...
...have suffered the consequences. In March, when the owners voted 23 to 1 to lock the spring training camps, the one was Veeck. ("That's the usual tally," he says.) A few days later, he unveiled the new White Sox warm weather uniform-short pants. On opening day, peg-legged Veeck (he lost his leg as a result of a 1943 war wound) choreographed some Bicentennial foofaraw and greeted his crowd as the fife player in a fetching patriotic ceremony. Marching across the field with him were Business Manager Rudie Schaffer on drum and stern Sox Manager Paul Richards...
...Michael's death radicalized his parents-particularly his mother-because their basic conservative values had been shattered. As Peg Mullen became convinced that her son's life was wasted by an accident in a war that itself was a mistake, the line between her grief and fury vanished. She grew obsessed with extracting from the Government every obligation due her. She fought for and won the right to have Michael's body specially escorted home from Viet Nam. When an Army liaison officer told her that it would take 15 more days, Peg replied: "You can tell...
Tapped Phone. Two weeks later, Peg became the La Porte pariah when she told the American Legion there would be no military rites at the funeral. Although her husband shared her bitterness, he was too busy to share in all of her protest activities. She traveled to Washington to participate in antiwar demonstrations and confront Senators and Congressmen. She corresponded with other parents whose sons had been killed in Viet Nam. The Mullens also used Michael's Government insurance money to publish a full-page ad in the Des Moines Register. It consisted of 714 crosses representing Iowa...
Friendly Fire is not another self-righteous lamentation about the U.S.'s tragic blunderings in Southeast Asia; rather, it is as close to elemental tragedy as any nonfiction account to come out of the war. Bryan conveys Peg Mul len's grief and rage with such purity and tact that at times she seems like a Mid dle Western Antigone, challenging the authority of the state in the name of what individuals hold most sacred. This might be too high-blown a comparison for the farmer's wife to accept. But she would probably agree with Sophocles...