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Baseball, as Bill Veeck said, is meant to be fun. The trouble with Steinbrenner is that he manages to turn it into an Oedipal brawl that reduces his athletes to twitching depressives. Baseball reflects the surrounding culture, of course. Americans may get the sport they deserve: corporate, grandiose, soulless. To say that, however, might be to say that we are all responsible for Steinbrenner. That is going much...
...Home said that she has always imagined herself being a teacher. Norman Vincent Peale says fervently that he wanted to be a salesman-and of course that is, in a sense, what he has always been. Opera Singer Grace Bumbry wants to be a professional race-car driver. Bill Veeck, former owner of the Chicago White Sox, confides the alternate Veeck: a newspaperman. In a "nonfiction short story," Truman Capote wrote that he wanted to be a girl. Andy Warhol confesses without hesitation: "I've always wanted to be an airplane. Nothing more, nothing less. Even when I found...
BONUS QUESTION: Joe Early was Bill Veeck's night watchman in Cleveland. Veeck threw a "Good Old Joe Early Night" for his employee after he complained that only ballplayers who didn't need gifts were lavished with them on special days and nights...
Stripped of its Whitmanesque rhetoric, this means the fixture as before: first person singularities from the prominent (Miss U.S.A., Ted Turner, Joan Crawford, Arnold Schwarzenegger), the recognizable (Baseball Maverick Bill Veeck, Novelist Jill Robinson, Rolling Stone Publisher Jann Wenner) and the totally obscure. All of them are highly individual, all discuss some aspect of that worn shibboleth, the American Dream. As they talk, platitudes give way to testimony, and the vision becomes a document...
...stared at me like I was from Cleveland and then started laughing like a madman (and you know the rumors about him). How rude. I was thoroughly insulted and felt the least he could do was answer an intelligent question in a halfway intelligent manner. But no, not Bill Veeck. He's too busy owning the Twins and buying the Seahawks to talk with us fans, the people who make it possible for him to own and buy all those teams and be rich and famous. The nerve...