Word: veeck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...McGraw is a businessman, he is one after Bill Veeck's heart. It may not be just a boy's game, but last year while the Braves were taking batting practice, McGraw hid out of sight with a hose and periodically sprinkled then-Brave Ralph Garr, who kept staring at the sunny sky in amazement. You often get that kind of thing in baseball. Once before a game in St. Louis, Bob Uecker, then a journeyman catcher, now an ABC announcer, borrowed a tuba from a band that was playing on the field and used it to shag...
Innocence and ebullience-these are realities of baseball that transcend contracts and lawsuits. Bill Veeck sits in his Chicago office, looking at the 15-in. file drawer on his desk that contains some 1,500 promotional ideas, pondering which one to spring on his White Sox followers next. It is no wonder he expects more than a million paid through his gates this year. Milwaukee Brewer Boss Bud Selig, 41, comes right out and calls baseball show biz. His competition? Not other sports, but "movies, the circus, rock concerts." His market? Youth. A 1975 survey showed that the average...
...Anyone familiar with the 4-F players of wartime baseball will sympathize with the 1943 Mundys. Their roster of freaks and misfits includes a one-legged catcher; a 14-year-old second baseman; a midget pinch hitter, "a credit to his size," who is reminiscent of the one Bill Veeck fielded with the 1951 St. Louis Browns; and an ancient third baseman who naps between innings. There is also a one-armed right fielder who, unlike the Browns' Pete Gray, does not even have a stump under which to tuck his glove while throwing the ball. He puts...
...Veeck, the first witness in re-opened hearings on the stadium, explained that the All-Star game is by nature a national event with national interest and since RFK Stadium is a national facility, it should be used for the only baseball game that is national in scope He also described himself as "a hustler...