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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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41. Bill Veeck Quotes
    bill veeck baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world.If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can t get you  
    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/billveeck104229.html

42. Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Veeck: As In Wreck By Bill Veeck, Reviewed By Th
    There couldn t be a better moment for the reissue of bill veeck s veeck As inWreck. Originally published in 1962, this greatest of all baseball memoirs  
    http://www.powells.com/atl/review/2001_07_10.html

43. Small Business - Veeck Family Values - FORTUNE SMALL BUSINESS - Page
    Just another typical scene for the prince of baseball promotion, Mike veeck. If the name bill veeck means anything to you, it brings to mind a wacky  
    http://www.fortune.com/fortune/smallbusiness/marketing/articles/0,15114,460269,0
    
    Extractions: Marilyn Monroe look-alikes, nuns giving fans back rubs, cross-dressing dog mascots, death to disco night, Bill Murray leading a marching band, Elvis tributes ... Just another typical scene for the prince of baseball promotion, Mike Veeck. Peel back the zaniness and find constant innovation, no fear of failure, and an inherited calling. (Photo: Nathaniel Welch) Mike Veeck 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.

44. Small Business - Veeck Family Values - FORTUNE SMALL BUSINESS - Page 2
    Just another typical scene for the prince of baseball promotion, Mike veeck. veeck Family Values · bill veeck s Greatest Stunts  
    http://www.fortune.com/fortune/smallbusiness/marketing/articles/0,15114,460269-2
    
    Extractions: Marilyn Monroe look-alikes, nuns giving fans back rubs, cross-dressing dog mascots, death to disco night, Bill Murray leading a marching band, Elvis tributes ... Just another typical scene for the prince of baseball promotion, Mike Veeck. Peel back the zaniness and find constant innovation, no fear of failure, and an inherited calling. (Photo: Nathaniel Welch) Mike Veeck 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."

45. Veeck As In Wreck
    the book by bill veeck and Ed Linn Cast bill Murray, veeck.gif (62239 bytes)photo of bill veeck s plaque at the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown  
    http://www.redeemable.com/veeck_as_in_wreck.htm
    
    Extractions: Hall of Fame in Cooperstown SYNOPSIS Bill Murray started on "Saturday Night Live" and since has reached enormous success as a film actor. A few of his credits include: STRIPES, TOOTSIE, GHOSTBUSTERS I & II, THE RAZOR’S EDGE, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, SCROOGED, MAD DOG AND GLORY, WHAT ABOUT BOB, GROUNDHOG DAY, ED WOOD and KINGPIN. See the story in Mr. Showbiz Home Our Slate Press Kits ... Search

46. Bill Veeck, Veeck--As In Wreck, Excerpt
    An excerpt from veeckAs In Wreck The Autobiography of bill veeck. A littlemidget jumps out of a cake and he s wearing a baseball uniform and he s a  
    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.

47. Anecdote - Bill Veeck - Circus Baseball (long)
    Anecdotes, Famous People. Funny Stories. Anecdotes from Gates to Yeats.  
    http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=9724

48. Anecdote - Bill Veeck - Disco Sucks
    American baseball promoter, son of St. Louis Browns owner bill veeck More billveeck anecdotes Related Anecdote Keywords baseball Sports Disco Music  
    http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=13372

49. The Sox, The Cubs And Bill Veeck: Magical Baseball Memories Live On: HeraldTimes
    The Sox, the Cubs and bill veeck Magical baseball memories live on. Access requiressubscription. Subscriber Log In. Username (email address). Password  
    http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2005/07/03/column.0703-SH-A11_RSZ27831.

50. Bill Veeck Quotes - ThinkExist Quotations
    If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can t get you off. bill veeck quotes. Similar Quotes. About baseball quotes. Add to my book  
    http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/bill_veeck/
    
    Extractions: " There are only two seasons winter and Baseball. " Bill Veeck quotes Similar Quotes Add to my book show_bar(332491,null,'there_are_only_two_seasons-winter_and_baseball') " Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. " Bill Veeck quotes Similar Quotes . About: Baseball quotes Add to my book show_bar(199988,null,'baseball_is_almost_the_only_orderly_thing_in_a') " The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people. " Bill Veeck quotes About: Sports quotes Add to my book show_bar(200478,null,'the_most_beautiful_thing_in_the_world_is_a') " I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. " Bill Veeck quotes Add to my book show_bar(199943,null,'i_try_not_to_break_the_rules_but_merely_to_test')

51. AllRefer.com - Bill Veeck (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia
    bill veeck (William Louis veeck, Jr.), 1914–86, American baseball executive, b.Chicago. The son of an owner of the Chicago Cubs, veeck began his executive  
    http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/V/VeeckB.html
    
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52. New York Daily News - Baseball - Bill Madden: Brewers Get Cheap Thrills
    When Roland was working for bill veeck with the White Sox, he went to veeck Veteran baseball people had scoffed at Pena s jocular, turnup-the-volume  
    http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/story/309612p-264962c.html
    
    Extractions: var MenuLinkedBy='AllWebMenus [2]', awmBN='528'; awmAltUrl=''; Current Archive Bill Madden joined the Daily News in 1978 after nine years at United Press International where he covered baseball, track and field and Olympics. He was the Daily News' Yankee beat writer from 1980-88 before becoming the News' national baseball columnist. In his 24 years with The News, Madden has broken numerous major baseball stories. He is the author of the just-published "Pride of October: What It Was to Be Young and a Yankee," as well as two other books on baseball - "Damned Yankees" in collaboration with Moss Klein of the Newark Star-Ledger, and Don Zimmer's best-selling autobiography, "Zim-A Baseball Life." Email: bmadden@ edit.nydailynews.com Brewers get cheap thrills Carlos Lee and Brewers are enjoying a fine start thanks to some creative moves made by general manager Doug Melvin. John McMullen, the delightfully irascible former Houston Astros owner, was fond of chiding his free-spending bigger market brethren by periodically releasing to the media what he called his "payroll performance" standings. It was a simple formula in which McMullen divided the teams' victory totals into their payrolls to come up with a cost per win.

53. Eddie Gaedel Game - Box Score Of Major League Debut
    baseball Almanac examines the box score from the publicity game which featured The owner of the St. Louis Browns, bill veeck, promised local fans a  
    http://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/08191951.shtml
    
    Extractions: Baseball Almanac "(Eddie Gaedel) used to play shortstop when he was smaller, but went into semi-retirement several years ago when the big kids failed to pick him in a corner lot game." - Bill Veeck Press Release T he owner of the St. Louis Browns, Bill Veeck, promised local fans a "Festival of Surprises" when they came to the ballpark to watch their hometown Browns play the Detroit Tigers in a doubleheader. P lanned surprises included a marching band led by Satchel Paige, a performance by baseball clown Max Patkin, and various juggling and dancing acts. The sponsor of the festival wanted more and Veeck responded by putting vaudeville actor Eddie Gaedel, who was 3' 7", into the bottom half of the doubleheader. Eddie Gaedel August 19, 1951 at Sportsman's Park NAME POS AB R H RBI Jerry Priddy Dick Kryhoski George Kell Vic Wertz rf Charlie Keller rf Pat Mullin cf Steve Souchock lf Bob Swift c c- Johnny Lipon pr Joe Ginsberg c Neil Berry ss Bob Cain p Dizzy Trout p Totals NAME POS AB R H RBI Frank Saucier rf a- Eddie Gaedel ph b- Jim Delsing cf Bobby Young Cliff Mapes cf-rf Sherm Lollar c Ken Wood lf Hank Arft Fred Marsh Bill Jennings ss Duane Pillette p Jim Suchecki p d- Jack Maguire ph Totals a : Bases on balls for Saucier in 1st inning.

54. Luis Aparicio Biography By Baseball Almanac
    baseball Almanac Where What Happened Yesterday is Being Preserved Today Chicago White Sox team owner bill veeck wrote in veeck As In Wreck The  
    http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/luis_aparicio_biography.shtml
    
    Extractions: Baseball Almanac "Luis Aparicio is the only guy that I ever saw go behind second base, make the turn and throw Mickey Mantle out. He was as sure-handed as anyone." - Phil Rizzuto on the National Baseball Hall of Fame (website) T his Luis Aparicio biography is a carefully researched account of the life of baseball shortstop Luis Aparcio. It is part of Baseball Almanac's hall of fame biographical history series and researched by historian Dennis Yuhasz. Luis Aparicio Biography by Dennis Yuhasz Before the arrival of such power hitting shortstops such as Ernie Banks Cal Ripken Alex Rodriguez , etcetera, the position was played by those who contributed solid fundamental offense, outstanding defense and many intangible things that never appear in a box score. The epitome of such a shortstop was Luis Aparicio , who never played a single inning at any other position over an eighteen year career, and whose slick fielding and base stealing abilities were big keys to team and personal success. Born in Venezuela

55. Bill Veeck's Ideas Not So Ridiculous Today
    bill veeck s ideas not so ridiculous today. Sunday, June 12, 2005. baseball ISCURRENTLY in the midst of another round of interleague play and that makes me  
    http://www.courierpostonline.com/columnists/cxda061205a.htm
    
    Extractions: News Sections South Jersey News World Report Sports Business ... Varsity Weekly Sections Communities New! Nuestra Comunidad South Jersey Golf Senior Scoop South Jersey Living ... Women on the Run Columnists Columnist Index Phil Anastasia Robert Baxter Joe Busler ... Jim Walsh In Our Community Corrections Dating Gannett Foundation In Memoriam ... Pets New! Spot News Kids Korner South Jersey Guide BASEBALL IS CURRENTLY in the midst of another round of interleague play and that makes me think about one of my personal heroes, Bill Veeck. If you know Veeck's name at all, it's probably because he was the one who signed Eddie Gaedel, a little person, to pinch hit in a Major League ball game in 1951. But there's far more to the man who took great delight in explaining his name rhymes with "wreck."

56. Bill Veeck
    bill veeck. AKA William Louis veeck, Jr. Born 9Feb-1914 Gender MaleEthnicity White Sexual orientation Straight Occupation Sports - baseball  
    http://www.nndb.com/people/133/000085875/

57. Why I Like Baseball, By Cecilia Tan
    You see, there s this kinda zany baseball promoter named Mike veeck, son of thelate, esteemed bill veeck, who had once owned the St. Louis Browns,  
    http://www.ceciliatan.com/Entry34.html
    
    Extractions: Slouching Towards Fargo So, the other night, while sitting in the stands in the freezing cold wind of Yankee Stadium's upper deck, my brother gave me my birthday present, lovingly wrapped in a page of the sports section of the local paper with Ken Griffey, Jr. photo large on it. (I couldn't help but say, as I ripped the paper to shreds: "Omigod, I killed Kenny!") It was just a coincidence that that night's game was near my birthday and that I happened to be in NYC. Julian, ever the thoughtful brother, bought me a copy of the Major League Rule Book, which I have already used twice, and also another baseball-related book, "Slouching Toward Fargo" by Neal Karlen. The subtitle of the book tells it all: "A Two-Year Saga of Sinners and St. Paul Saints at the Bottom of the Bush Leagues With Bill Murray, Darryl Strawberry, Dakota Sadie, and Me." You see, there's this kinda zany baseball promoter named Mike Veeck, son of the late, esteemed Bill Veeck, who had once owned the St. Louis Browns, among other teams, and who was called "the greatest showman in baseball." The younger Veeck got blackballed from the game when both Veecks were with the Chicago White Sox, and Mike arranged the infamous "Disco Demolition Night"which resulted in a riot, torn up field, and a forfeited game. Veeck's only route back to The Show, like the many desperate, end-of-the-line players he would hire, was through the independent bush leagues, not part of "organized baseball."

58. NINE: A Journal Of Baseball History And Culture, Volume 10 - Table Of Contents
    bill veeck and James Thurber The Literary Origins of the Midget Pinch Hitter veeck, bill. Gaedel, Eddie. baseball in literature.  
    http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nine/toc/nin10.2.html

59. Project MUSE
    In an endof-the-century list of baseball s most Unusual and UnforgettableMoments, the One might ask if bill veeck got his idea from James Thurber,  
    http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nine/v010/10.2tootle01.html
    
    Extractions: In an end-of-the-century list of baseball's most "Unusual and Unforgettable Moments," the editors of The Sporting News selected St.Louis Browns owner Bill Veeck's use of midget pinch hitter Eddie Gaedel as the number one event in this category. Gaedel's plate appearance in an official American League game in 1951 won the honor over such other contenders as the "pine tar game" in 1983, the earthquake that interrupted the World Series in 1989, young Jeffery Maier's catch of Derek Jeter's homer in the 1996 playoffs, and Juan Marichal's bat attack on catcher John Roseboro in 1965. Veeck's Classic Ploy Gaedel's game appearance was a well-planned maneuver that occurred August 19, 1951, in the context of a gala ceremony at Sportsman's Park to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the American League. Veeck, the former owner of the Cleveland Indians, had just purchased the Browns franchise from William and Charles DeWitt in June. The club was not doing well in the standings or at the gate, and Veeck, one of baseball's legendary masters of creative promotions, began trying various measures to increase interest in the team.

60. Bill Veeck's Grandstand Managers
    The baseball Page has original baseball commentary, with a perspective on baseballhistory. baseball player pages, alltime teams, franchise pages,  
    http://www.thebaseballpage.com/features/2001/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.

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