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...situation looked promising to a minor-league mogul and ex-marine named Bill Veeck (rhymes with wreck). He rounded up nine moneymen, including Comedian Bob Hope. Last week they bought the Indians for about...
...first thing Boss Veeck did was to count the customers. The 8,526 who went to see the Indians beat the league-leading Red Sox were a pretty small band. But there were only 22 people in the stands the day Veeck bought the bankrupt Milwaukee Brewers in 1941. Veeck soon put his theory to work in Milwaukee: good baseball for the fans, something extra for those who aren...
Ballplayers came in & out of Milwaukee so fast that Veeck liked to say he had three teams-the one that left yesterday, the one playing today, the one coming in tomorrow. After lifting Milwaukee from eighth to first place in the American Association in two years (and the value of the club from $90,000 to $250,000), Veeck joined the Marines. An impish-looking fellow of 33 with a crew haircut and massive face, he was injured at Bougainville, now carries his right leg in a cast...
Died. William Louis Veeck, 56, president of the Chicago Cubs; of leucocythaemia: in Chicago. Fourteen years ago the Cubs' owner, the late William Wrigley Jr., rubbed raw by withering criticism administered almost daily in Sportswriter Veeck's column, called him in and sarcastically offered him the job of running the club. Veeck accepted. During his tenure the Cubs won two pennants, lost both World Series...
...American League's Chicago White Sox: a post-season city series from the National League Cubs (whose President William Veeck died last week), in four straight games; in Chicago...