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Marketing Your Dreams: Business and Life Lessons from Bill Veeck, Baseball's Promotional Genius by Pat Williams, Michael Weinreb, 2001-02-01 Bill Veeck: A Baseball Legend by Gerald Eskenazi, 1987-09 BILL VEECK. A Baseball Legend. by Gerald. (Bill Veeck) ESKENAZI, 1988 Bill Veeck: A Baseball Legend by Gerald Eskenazi, 1988 MARKETING YOUR DREAMS: Business and Life Lessons from Bill Veeck, Baseball's Mar by Pat and Michael Weinreb Williams, 2000-01-01 Bill Veeck: A Baseball Legend Quick News Weekly April 21, 1952 Bill Veeck/St. Louis Browns (Baseball), Eva Peron, Marilyn Monroe Veeck-As in Wreck The Chaotic Career of Baseball's Incorrigible Maverick by Bill and Linn, Ed Veeck, 1962 BASEBALL, I LOVE YOU!: Jolly Cholly's Story by Charlie w/ Ed Prell. Intro. Bill Veeck Grimm, 1968 VEECK AS IN WRECK: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BILL VEECK; " THE WILD MAN OF BASEBALL, WHO DARED DO IT ALL--AND TELL IT ALL..."THE GREATEST SPORTS STORY EVER TOLD!" " (A SIGNET BOOK AE4549) The Hustler's Handbook by Bill Veeck, 2009-07-25 Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck by Bill Veeck, Ed Linn, 2001-04-07 The End of Baseball: A Novel by Peter Schilling, 2010-03-16 Propriétaire Des Indians de Cleveland: Alva Bradley, Charles Somers, Bill Veeck, Ellis Ryan, Larry Dolan, Jim Dunn (Baseball, Propriétaire) (French Edition)

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1. National Baseball Hall Of Fame - Bill Veeck
   Profile and photograph of the maverick owner who was elected to the Hall by the Committee on baseball Veterans in 1991.  
   http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/veeck_bill.htm
   
   Extractions: Bill Veeck Bill Veeck William Louis Veeck Jr. As owner of the Indians , Browns and White Sox Larry Doby Satchel Paige in 1948. Did you know ... that while employed in various capacities by the Chicago Cubs, Bill Veeck Jr. was responsible for the planting of ivy on Wrigley Field's outfield wall in September 1937? Search Our Online Library Catalog "ABNER" for Bill Veeck

2. The Baseball Reliquary - Bill Veeck
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   http://www.baseballreliquary.org/veeck.htm
   
   Extractions: The BASEBALL RELIQUARY Inc THE SHRINE OF THE ETERNALS 1999 ELECTEES WILLIAM LOUIS VEECK, JR. Born 2/9/14, Chicago, Illinois Died 1/2/86, Chicago, Illinois A self-proclaimed "hustler," Bill Veeck, Jr. was the greatest public relations man and promotional genius the game of baseball has ever seen. The son of former Chicago Cubs president Bill Veeck, Sr., he got his start in the baseball business selling peanuts and hot dogs at Wrigley Field and was fond of saying that he was "the only human being ever raised in a ballpark." Over the course of a fifty-year love affair with baseball, Veeck would own three major league teams and would establish himself as the game’s most incorrigible maverick. Upon returning from military duty in World War II, during which he received a severe leg wound that would ultimately require amputation, Veeck bought his first major league team, the Cleveland Indians, in 1946 at the age of 32. Although his reign in Cleveland was a mere three-and-a-half years, neither the Indians nor the game of baseball were quite the same thereafter. In 1947 Veeck hired the American League’s first black player (Larry Doby), and a year later brought Cleveland its first pennant and world championship since 1920, establishing a new major league season attendance record of 2.6 million fans. He introduced fireworks displays after games and signed 42-year-old Negro League pitching legend Satchel Paige to a contract in 1948, making him the oldest rookie ever to play professional baseball. Veeck even staged a night for Joe Earley, after the fan protested that the Indians owner had honored everyone except the average "Joe."

3. National Baseball Hall Of Fame - Bill Veeck's Plaque
   bill veeck OWNER OF INDIANS, BROWNS AND WHITE SOX. Hall of Fame plaques are propertyof the National baseball Hall of Fame and the images may not be reproduced  
   http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/plaques/veeck_bill.htm
   
   Extractions: Search Our Online Library Catalog "ABNER" for Bill Veeck The data on all plaques was taken from reliable sources at the time the plaques were made. Hall of Fame plaques are property of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the images may not be reproduced without approval of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. © National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.

4. Bill Veeck Trophy - Baseball Memorabila - Seth's Room - Seth Swirsky
   bill veeck Trophy In 1952, the St. Louis Browns were managed by Rogers Hornsby. While Hornsby was one of baseball's greatest players, he was not very well liked as a manager.  
   http://www.sethsroom.com/memorabilia3.htm
   
   Extractions: Bill Veeck Trophy In 1952, the St. Louis Browns were managed by Rogers Hornsby. While Hornsby was one of baseball's greatest players, he was not very well liked as a manager. In the mid-summer of 1952, the Browns players got together and asked the team owner, Bill Veeck, to fire Hornsby. Veeck, a real players' owner, went ahead and relieved the very tough disciplinarian, Hornsby. In appreciation, the Browns players gave Veeck this trophy. The inscription reads: "To Bill Veeck - For the greatest play since the emancipation proclamation. June 10, 1952. From the players of the St. Louis Browns"

5. Bill Veeck Baseball League Home Page
   2002 bill veeck baseball League Home Page The draft for the 2002 Season will be held March 30, 2002 at 9 am at Marc's house.  
   http://www.rotostats.com/baseball
   
   Extractions: Football 2003 Bill Veeck Baseball League Home Page The draft for the 2003 Season will be held March 29, 2003 at 9 am at Marc's house. 2002 - Barry Harmon 2001 - Julian Parr 2000 - Jeff Buchoff and Scott Scheleur 1999 - Jeff Goldstein 1998 - Julian Parr 1997 - Julian Parr 1996 - Steve Levy 1995 - Abe Skurnik 1994 - Barry Harmon 1993 - Alan Stein 1992 - Bob Danton 1991 - Bob Danton 1990 - Marc Goldstein and Julian Parr 1989 - Abe Skurnik and Marc Leibowitz 1988 - Marc Goldstein and Julian Parr Please send any comments/suggestions you may have to scottcaps@aol.com

6. Veeck, Bill: Veeck--As In Wreck
   bill veeck's autobiography. Site includes reviews, an excerpt, and ordering information.Category Sports baseball People Management veeck, bill bill veeck was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, andone of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. His  
   http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14283.ctl
   
   Extractions: Veeck, Bill and Ed Linn VeeckAs In Wreck The Autobiography of Bill Veeck . With a new Foreword by Bob Verdi. ii, 398 p. 1962, 1986, 2001 Paper COBE $16.00 0-226-85218-0 Spring 2001 Bill Veeck was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and one of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. His classic autobiography, written with the talented sportswriter Ed Linn, is an uproarious book packed with information about the history of baseball and tales of players and owners, including some of the most entertaining stories in all of sports literature. "Following this story as it unfolds, anecdote after anecdote, is much like sitting with Veeck or some other talented raconteur through a few long nights in a saloon. The stories, especially the ones about such eccentric and fascinating old-timers as Satchel Paige and Casey Stengel, are filled with the pungent flavor of good old American folklore."Alfred Wright, New York Times Book Review "A brash, blunt autobiography that is certain-like everything else he has done-to delight his fans and raise his fellow-owners' hackles."

7. Bill Veeck, Veeck--As In Wreck, Excerpt
   veeckAs In Wreck The Autobiography of bill veeck. The most innovativeowner in baseball history and, by a wide margin, the funniest. . . .  
   http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/852180.html
   
   Extractions: In 1951, in a moment of madness, I became owner and operator of a collection of old rags and tags known to baseball historians as the St. Louis Browns. The Browns, according to reputable anthropologists, rank in the annals of baseball a step or two ahead of Cro-Magnon man. One thing should be made clear. A typical Brownie was more than four feet tall. Except, of course, for Eddie Gaedel, who was 3'7" and weighed 65 lbs. Eddie gave the Browns their only distinction. He was, by golly, the best darn midget who ever played big-league ball. He was also the only one. Eddie came to us in a moment of desperation. Not his desperation, ours. After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided. The best bet seemed to be to call upon the resources of our radio sponsors, Falstaff Brewery. For although Falstaff only broadcast our games locally, they had distributors and dealers all over the state. Naturally, they pressed me for details. Naturally, I had to tell them that much as I hated to hold out on them, my idea was so explosive I could not afford to take the slightest chance of a leak.

8. Baseball Lore: Bill Veeck And Eddie Gaedel
   baseball LORE bill veeck AND EDDIE GAEDEL  
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   Extractions: Eliot Cohen B ill Veeck was a great innovator on the public side of the game. Veeck, who planted the ivy in Wrigley Field while his father was president of the Cubs, saw baseball as entertainment, and his clubs always had a carnival element. (Veeck tried to buy the Ringling Brothers Circus in the 1950s.) He was a kindly huckster, not unlike the Wizard of Oz. When he staged morning games during World War II for workers coming off the graveyard shift, Veeck helped serve coffee and doughnuts in the stands. He let fans decide strategy with voting cards. But Veeck wanted to win, too. He rigged fences so that they could be moved in and out to his team's advantage. His grounds crew would hose down the infield until it was muddy to slow down opposing baserunners. He sold mirrors to fans in the bleachers to shine in enemy batters' eyes. But Veeck's most famous coup was hiring Eddie Gaedel to play for the St. Louis Browns in 1951. Eddie Gaedel Veeck's stunt came in the second game of a doubleheader between the Browns and Tigers on August 19. Between games Veeck staged an elaborate 50th-anniversary celebration for the American League, attended by Commissioner "Happy" Chandler. The celebration featured acrobats, antique cars, a band made up of Browns players, and for the finale, an anniversary cake. The 3-foot-7 Gaedel jumped out of the cake, wearing number 1/8 on a Browns uniform originally made for the son of former owner Bill DeWitt.

9. The Baseball Reliquary - Induction Day
   from veeck’s legendary promotions, and Cannon speculated that if bill veeckwere still with us, and had the crazy notion to start a baseball museum, it  
   http://www.baseballreliquary.org/inductionday.htm
   
   Extractions: The BASEBALL RELIQUARY Inc SHRINE OF THE ETERNALS 1999 INDUCTION DAY On Sunday, July 25, 1999, 125 people attended the 1999 Induction Day ceremony of the Shrine of the Eternals , held at the Donald R. Wright Auditorium in the Pasadena Central Library, Pasadena, California. The festivities began at 2:30 PM (Pacific Standard Time) with a ceremonial bell ringing in memory of Hilda Chester, the raucous Brooklyn Dodgers fan of the 1940s and ‘50s, often called the "First Lady of Flatbush." The bell that was rung is from the collections of the Baseball Reliquary and is one of the original cowbells which Hilda used to clang in the bleachers at Ebbets Field. Hilda was affectionately remembered by the Reliquary’s founder and Executive Director Terry Cannon, who also served as Master of Ceremonies for the Induction Day festivities, as "a master of the art of cacophony" and one of baseball’s "greatest percussionists." First off was Richard Amromin, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Baseball Reliquary, who provided brief sketches of the people behind the organization. He asked the audience to note that nine of the ten Board members and officers of the Reliquary have backgrounds in the arts. (The lone exception is 89-year-old Wendy Brougalman, a self-described baseball spinster who, Amromin remarked, "still bemoans the passing of her beloved Hollywood Stars, for whom she held season tickets for many years.")

10. Listings Of The World Sports Baseball People Management
    National baseball Hall of Fame bill veeck Post Review Profile and photograph ofthe maverick owner who was elected to the Hall by the Committee on baseball  
    http://listingsworld.com/Sports/Baseball/People/Management/Veeck,_Bill/

11. The BASEBALL Page - Bill Veeck And The Grandstand Managers
    Over A’s.” And as bill veeck himself wrote, “Never has a game been called better.”Ron Visco is a Museum Educator at the National baseball Hall of Fame  
    http://www.thebaseballpage.com/features/grandstand.htm
    
    Extractions: Fifty years ago, St. Louis Browns ace Ned Garver took to the mound to face the Philadelphia Athletics. The first batter hit a line drive so hard that it pushed the Browns shortstop backward, but he still managed to make the play and register an out. The next two batters singled, and then Gus Zernial hammered a homer to give the Athletics a 3-0 lead. An error and another Philadelphia single put runners on the corners, still with only one out. Garver was obviously shaky, so shaky that it seemed like he might not last the first inning. So was the Browns manager thinking of getting someone up in the bullpen? Actually, St. Louis skipper Zack Taylor was sitting in the stands. In a rocking chair. In slippers. Smoking a pipe. And why was that? Well, managing chores that day had been left to the St. Louis fans. Who would concoct such a scheme? Only one man: a promotional wizard by the name of Bill Veeck. The Browns’ owner had, only five days earlier, sent 3’7” midget Eddie Gaedel up to bat. Now Veeck was running another promotion, allowing a group of fans to run the game. After all, don’t many fans think they can do as good a job as their team’s regular manager? Well, here was their chance, courtesy of Veeck.

12. Bill Veeck Recognition Page - Baseball-Reference.com
    You can sponsor a page. bill veeck's autobiography, a baseball classic,is published by the University of Chicago Press. The first  
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/nonmlbpa/veeckbi99.shtml
    
    Extractions: Be alerted when new features are added. Veeck as in Wreck sponsor(s) this page. You can sponsor a page Bill Veeck's autobiography, a baseball classic, is published by the University of Chicago Press. The first chapter, telling the story of Eddie Gaedel, is available online. You Are Here Baseball-Reference.com Non-MLBPA Persons Bill Veeck Quick Index: Players Teams Leagues Managers ... Random

13. Non-MLBPA Persons Index - Baseball-Reference.com
    baseball Executive or Pioneer Morgan Bulkeley Alexander Cartwright Henry Chadwick JohnsonKenesaw Landis Larry MacPhail Lee MacPhail bill veeck George Weiss  
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    Extractions: About Us Analysis Stats Stuff News SUPPORT BR.com Quick Index: Players Teams Leagues Managers ... Random You Are Here Baseball-Reference.com Non-MLBPA Persons For the most part these are people in the Hall Of Fame for their contributions as umpires or executives or in the Negro Leagues. Baseball Executive or Pioneer Morgan Bulkeley Alexander Cartwright Henry Chadwick Happy Chandler ... Tom Yawkey Associated with the Negro Leagues Cool Papa Bell Oscar Charleston Ray Dandridge Leon Day ... Joe Williams Major League Umpire Al Barlick Nestor Chylak Tom Connolly Billy Evans ... Bill McGowan You Are Here Baseball-Reference.com Non-MLBPA Persons Quick Index: Players Teams Leagues Managers ... Random

14. Famous Quotes - Bill Veeck - Baseball Is Almost The Only...
    baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get threestrikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. bill veeck  
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15. Bill Veeck - Famous Quotes And Quotations
    Author bill veeck, baseball is almost the only - I try not to break - The most beautiful thing in Get Our eBook, Fun and Games, Subscribe.  
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16. Veeck, Bill
    AD.COM Web Directory, search, veeck, bill. Top Sports baseball People Management veeck,_bill 1, National baseball Hall of Fame bill veeck.  
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17. Baseball Lore: Bill Veeck And Eddie Gaedel
    baseball LORE bill veeck AND EDDIE GAEDEL Eliot Cohen. bill veeckwas a great innovator on the public side of the game. veeck, who  
    http://www.enel.net/beisbol/player/veeck.asp
    
    Extractions: Eliot Cohen B ill Veeck was a great innovator on the public side of the game. Veeck, who planted the ivy in Wrigley Field while his father was president of the Cubs, saw baseball as entertainment, and his clubs always had a carnival element. (Veeck tried to buy the Ringling Brothers Circus in the 1950s.) He was a kindly huckster, not unlike the Wizard of Oz. When he staged morning games during World War II for workers coming off the graveyard shift, Veeck helped serve coffee and doughnuts in the stands. He let fans decide strategy with voting cards. But Veeck wanted to win, too. He rigged fences so that they could be moved in and out to his team's advantage. His grounds crew would hose down the infield until it was muddy to slow down opposing baserunners. He sold mirrors to fans in the bleachers to shine in enemy batters' eyes. But Veeck's most famous coup was hiring Eddie Gaedel to play for the St. Louis Browns in 1951. Eddie Gaedel Veeck's stunt came in the second game of a doubleheader between the Browns and Tigers on August 19. Between games Veeck staged an elaborate 50th-anniversary celebration for the American League, attended by Commissioner "Happy" Chandler. The celebration featured acrobats, antique cars, a band made up of Browns players, and for the finale, an anniversary cake. The 3-foot-7 Gaedel jumped out of the cake, wearing number 1/8 on a Browns uniform originally made for the son of former owner Bill DeWitt.

18. Baseball Quote Of The Day - Search Page
    There are only two seasons winter and baseball. bill veeck Cleveland IndiansOwner Contributed by Ken Phifer. Not really - they lean towards cash.  
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19. Directory :: Look.com
    National baseball Hall of Fame bill veeck Profile and photograph of the maverickowner who was elected to the Hall by the Committee on baseball Veterans in  
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