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  1. Bill Veeck: A Baseball Legend by Gerald Eskenazi, 1987-09
  2. Marketing Your Dreams: Business and Life Lessons from Bill Veeck Baseball's Marketing Genius by Pat Williams, Michael Weinreb, 2001-02-01
  3. Bill Veeck: A Baseball Legend. by GERALD ESKENAZI, 1988
  4. Bill Veeck: A Baseball Legend
  5. BILL VEECK. A Baseball Legend. by Gerald. (Bill Veeck) ESKENAZI, 1988
  6. 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)
  7. 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)
  8. Veeck-As in Wreck The Chaotic Career of Baseball's Incorrigible Maverick by Bill and Linn, Ed Veeck, 1962
  9. Jolly Cholly's Story Baseball, I Love You! Charlie Grimm with Ed Prell by Bill Veeck, 1968
  10. JOLLY CHOLLY'S STORY, BASEBALL, I LOVE YOU!, Signed By Charlie Grimm by Charlie, with Ed Prell, Introduction By Bill Veeck Grimm, 1968
  11. The Hustler's Handbook (Baseball America Classic Books) by Bill Veeck with Ed Linn, 1996
  12. Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck by Bill Veeck, Ed Linn, 2001-04-07
  13. The Hustler's Handbook (Fireside Sports Classics) by Bill Veeck, Ed Linn, 1989-06
  14. The Hustler's Handbook by Bill Veeck, 1996

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43. Bill James Guide To Baseball Managers
baseball Managers. sent a pinchhitter for him, 168-169 Casey Stengel in a Box,168-176 Popular Vote sidebar - Zach Taylor and bill veeck s popular vote
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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.

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By Rick Brooks Written December 16, 2002 I just finished reading Veeck as in Wreck , the autobiography of Bill Veeck, with an assist from Ed Linn. If you didn't get this book in your Christmas stocking, run - don't walk - run to the nearest bookstore and grab a copy. Now you're set for your winter baseball reading. With Bill Veeck, here is the bottom line: BASEBALL IS FUN! The stodgy old suits who run major league baseball should be required to repeat this mantra 10,000 times a day: BASEBALL IS FUN! They and their predecessors long ago took the fun out of baseball for millions of people by turning it into a business and only a business. And they ran Bill Veeck out of major league baseball for having so much fun that he proved every day what stiff old ironing boards they were. What is the fantasy baseball relevance? you might ask. Well, FANTASY BASEBALL IS FUN! If you cannot earnestly recite this motto, then you might want to seriously consider another hobby. If fantasy sports in general and fantasy baseball in particular has ceased being fun for you, then what in the heck are you doing investing your time and money in an activity that isn't fun anymore? Move west, young man - or something like that. What about the midget? you might ask. Ah, yes, the midget. I guess the politically correct term now is little person, but back then, he was a midget. Bill Veeck is perhaps best known nowadays as the baseball executive who sent Eddie Gaedel up to bat for his St. Louis Browns in 1951. Well, how can a perennial bottom-feeder have fun in baseball? Let me count the ways. There's sending a midget up to bat, and... and...and.... Seriously, Bill Veeck loved his promotions, which he called gags, and he had hundreds of them. What's wrong with a little fun at the old ballpark? Who wouldn't want to win a milking contest and get rewarded with taking home the whole cow? I sure would - wouldn't you? By the way, the midget walked.

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    55. Chatter From The Dugout By C. Philip Francis - August 22, 2001
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    Bygone Baseball: The unfamiliar, the unusual, the dramatic by C. Philip Francis August 22, 2001 Part 1 PROLOGUE: Bill Veeck was a master of promotional stunts, hustler, and a showman. He would do anything for publicity, but was a sound baseball man who developed winners in Cleveland and Chicago. Bill was born in 1914, grew up in a baseball-oriented family, and was the man responsible for planting the ivy that adorns the outfield wall in Chicago’s Wrigley Field. His father was a good friend of the New York Giants’ legendary manager, John McGraw, and often regaled the Veeck family with stories of his beloved ballteam. One was about a hunchbacked batboy for the Giants named Eddie Morrow, and said that he was often tempted to send the little fellow up to the plate just to get a walk. The young Veeck sat at McGraw’s feet where he listened and learned. The same idea was used in a James Thurber short story when a midget named Duke du Monville was sent up to bat. The American League joined the National League in 1901 to establish the Major Leagues, and with 1951 as the league’s fiftieth anniversary Bill now found a way to celebrate. The Falstaff Brewery, the team’s long time radio sponsor, also became part of the festivities. Owner Veeck chose a Sunday in August when the Detroit Tigers would be in town for a double-header. That summer the Browns were far down in the standings as usual, and the Tigers were battling to stay at .500. A game between the Browns and the Tigers was not much of a gate attraction, but a good time for the Barnum and Bailey of Baseball to get his imagination in overdrive.

    56. Chatter From The Dugout By C. Philip Francis - August 29, 2001
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    If the name Bill Veeck means anything to you, it brings to mind a wacky showman out of baseball's Golden Era. He was a guy who pulled wild stunts like sending a midget to the plate for the old St. Louis Browns in '51, a good-time Charlie running loose among his dour fellow owners, and a symbol of what some people feel is missing in baseball today, namely fun. "We give the fans good baseball. That's good enough for the dyed-in-the-wool fan," he'd say, winding up for his big pitch. "But for the others, for the fellow who is just out for amusement, it takes something a little different, a little extra, to tip the scales and bring him out to the ballyard." Bill Veeck, who owned ball clubs in Milwaukee and St. Louis, Cleveland and Chicago, was forever dreaming up new promotions like bat day and post-game fireworks, and ballpark innovations that have since become standards, like exploding scoreboards and on-site nurseries. His son Mike, 52, remembers all that stuff, of course. No matter that he was just a child (one of nine from two marriages) when the old man was in his prime. But he remembers other things too, things that hint at the spirit behind his father's bursts of color in the sky.

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    Veeck moved to Florida. He hung dry wall (because "wallboard doesn't talk back to you"), watched a lot of jai alai, mourned the 1986 death of his father, had a son, had a heart attack, got divorced, started going to AA meetings, pulled himself together enough to start his own ad agency, and was living alone in an apartment in Pompano Beach ten years later, in 1989, when he got a call from Goldklang, who had just bought the independent Miami Miracle. Goldklang says former White Sox general manager Roland Hemond had told him, "'If you're foolish enough to have purchased that franchise, you're probably crazy enough to hire Bill Veeck's son to run it.' That's how I was turned on to Mike." You might wonder why some of that stuff wouldn't work in the big leagues. You wouldn't be the first. Veeck has had opportunities over the years, with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the Florida Marlins, and the Detroit Tigers. The first two ended badly; the jury is still out on the third. Major League Baseball may be too stuffy for a Veeck. "I think clubs spend more time worrying about being embarrassed than in trying new things," says John Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox and the one who briefly hired Veeck when he owned the Marlins. "Not many fans write letters about the things they like. They write to complain. That's fine. But it doesn't help those responsible who are sensitive to criticism and who may work with someone as creative as Mike."

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