Word: veeck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have heard of Eddie Gaedel. At 3'7, he is the shortest person ever to play in a major-league game. In a stunt in 1951, Bill Veeck, owner of the St. Louis Browns, sent Gaedel to bat. He instructed Gaedel to stand at the plate and not swing and Gaedel promptly walked on four pitches...
...mention was made of his abduction by aliens. It happened in 1959, when a helicopter filled with Martians landed at Chicago's Comiskey Park and captured both Fox and his equally diminutive double-play partner, Luis Aparicio. The stunt was dreamed up by White Sox owner Bill Veeck, who eight years earlier had shocked baseball by sending 3-ft. 7-in. Eddie Gaedel to the plate for the St. Louis Browns. In fact, Gaedel was one of the four Martians (all of them very little people) who tried to enlist Fox and Aparicio in their battle against giant Earthlings...