Background
Veeck, Bill William Louis was born on February 9, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of William L. and Grace Greenwood (De Forrest) Veeck.
( Bill Veeck was an inspired team builder, a consummate s...)
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.
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(10-volume hardcover set. 10 classic sports books, handsom...)
10-volume hardcover set. 10 classic sports books, handsomely bound, with gilt lettering on spine.
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(The warmly personal, hugely hilarious autobiography of a ...)
The warmly personal, hugely hilarious autobiography of a man who started with nothing but eleven dollars in his pocket and a wild sense of humor and wound up as owner of the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox. Here is the career of a promoter with a flair amounting to genius for entertaining the fans, whose antics provoked storms of disapproval from staid league management, whose teams broke attendance records and won pennants. Packed with good stories, VEECK -- AS IN WRECK tells of the zany players Veeck liked and hired when nobody else would, of non-stop gambits and gamesmanship that made fans cheer and management roar; of the behind-the-scenes chicanery of big-league bosses told with a frankness that will bring cries of outrage from those named. (book description provided courtesy of seller keymedia)
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(In between his romances with baseball, in early 1969 Bill...)
In between his romances with baseball, in early 1969 Bill Veeck took up the challenge of managing Boston's semi–moribund Suffolk Downs racetrack. "Being of sound mind and in reasonable possession of my faculties," Veeck wrote, "I marshaled my forces, at the tender age of fifty–four, and marched upon the city of Boston, Massachusetts, like a latter–day Ben Franklin, to seek my fame and fortune as the operator of a racetrack. Two years later, fortune having taken one look at my weathered features and shaken its hoary locks, I retreated, smiling gamely." When he took over the track, Veeck had yet to learn that the normal daily output of some sixteen hundred horses (including straw) would amount to so much, or be so hard to dispose of. But that was the least of his problems. In the tough–minded and Tabasco–tongued prose that is his trademark, Veeck recalls the battles he won and lost, the fun he had, and what he discovered about horse racing at "Sufferin' Downs." It's a zesty, complicated story but a relentlessly fascinating one about the inside workings of one of the most popular sports in America.
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Veeck, Bill William Louis was born on February 9, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of William L. and Grace Greenwood (De Forrest) Veeck.
Student, Kenyon College.
With, Chicago Cubs professional baseball team, 1933-1941; treasurer, assistant secretary, Chicago Cubs professional baseball team, 1940-1941; president, owner professional baseball teams, Milwaukee Brewers (American Association), 1941-1945; president, owner professional baseball teams, Cleveland Indians, 1946-1949; president, owner professional baseball teams, St. Louis Browns, 1951-1953; president, owner professional baseball teams, Chicago White Sox, 1959-1961, 76-81; sports announcer, NBC-television, 1957-1958; president, owner, Suffolk Downs, Boston, 1969-1971. Co-host (with Mary-Frances Veeck) radio and television shows, Cleveland, St. Louis, Chicago.
(The warmly personal, hugely hilarious autobiography of a ...)
(The warmly personal, hugely hilarious autobiography of a ...)
(In between his romances with baseball, in early 1969 Bill...)
( Bill Veeck was an inspired team builder, a consummate s...)
(Bill Veeck was an inspired team builder, a consummate sho...)
(10-volume hardcover set. 10 classic sports books, handsom...)
With United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1943-1945.
Married Eleanor Raymond, December 8, 1935 (divorced 1949). Married Mary Frances Ackerman, April 29, 1950. 9 children.