81. BBC - H2g2 - Max Patkin - Baseball Clown by bill veeck, who was at that time owner of The Cleveland Indians baseball bill veeck said of Max that he was put together by someone who couldn t http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A855290

@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index Thursday 15th September 2005 Text only Guide ID: A855290 (Edited) Edited Guide Entry SEARCH h2g2 Advanced Search New visitors: Returning members: BBC Homepage The Guide to Life The Universe and Everything 3. Everything Sports Sporting Legends Created: 20th November 2002 Max Patkin - Baseball Clown Front Page What is h2g2? Who's Online Write an Entry ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! Max Patkin was one of those rare people - a truly natural funny man. If you've seen the film Bull Durham , you should be familiar with him. He's that goofy-looking character wearing a baseball uniform which is clearly too big and which has a question mark on the back, with his baseball cap on sideways, and who dances like a chicken while Bill Haley's 'Rock Around the Clock' is playing during the scene where the teams are warming up before a game. He also gets to dance with Annie ( Susan Sarandon ) when 'Crash' ( Kevin Costner ) and 'Nuke' ( Tim Robbins ) pick a fight with each other. Rather than playing a fictional character though, Max Patkin was playing himself in

82. Veeck, Bill Famous Quotes Famous Quotes By veeck, bill. 19141986 American baseball Executive. I do notthink that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only http://www.borntomotivate.com/FamousQuote_BillVeeck.html

Famous Quotes By: Veeck, Bill 1914-1986 American Baseball Executive I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing. Veeck, Bill Victory

83. CNN.com - Reading Between The Lines - July 8, 2002 veeck As in Wreck by bill veeck with Ed Linn. Speaking of baseball stories,few could tell one as well as bill veeck, the former owner who made the fans http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/books/07/08/baseball.books/

MAIN PAGE WORLD U.S. WEATHER ... ABOUT US/HELP CNN TV what's on show transcripts CNN Headline News CNN International ... askCNN EDITIONS CNN.com Asia CNN.com Europe CNNenEspanol.com CNNArabic.com ... set your edition Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW InStyle Business 2.0 Reading between the lines An all-star lineup of baseball books By Todd Leopold CNN "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America," French historian Jacques Barzun once famously wrote, "had better learn baseball." Fortunately, for those who want to know America's heart and mind, there are hundreds of books offering lessons on the sport. Whether it's baseball's mathematical precision, the larger-than-life exploits of its players, or simply the crazy luck created by hitting a pitched horsehide-leather sphere, baseball has provided writers with a rich vein of stories and personalities. With the sport's All-Star break at hand, here are nine idiosyncratic choices for a literary all-star team. MORE STORIES Allen Barra: Giving baseball a different spin Bill James: Baseball not just by the numbers EXTRA INFORMATION Get all your All-Star Game coverage from CNNSI.com

84. CNN.com - Bill James On ... - December 13, 2001 bill James baseball not just by the numbers Ed Linn s biographies ( veeckAs in Wreck, with bill veeck; Nice Guys Finish Last, with Leo Durocher), http://archives.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/books/12/13/sidebar.bill.james/

MAIN PAGE WORLD U.S. WEATHER ... ABOUT US/HELP CNN TV what's on show transcripts CNN Headline News CNN International ... askCNN EDITIONS CNN.com Asia CNN.com Europe CNNenEspanol.com CNNArabic.com ... set your edition Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW InStyle Business 2.0 Bill James on ... (CNN) Bill James has something interesting to say on just about anything baseball. Here are a few of his choice thoughts. CONTRACTION: "I'm appalled. College basketball has 320 Division I programs, all of which appear to make enough money ... and I haven't heard anyone say there are too many teams. The weaker teams can compete because the structure works. In baseball, the structure doesn't work. ... Shooting the weaker teams doesn't solve anything." (interview) CRAIG BIGGIO: "Craig Biggio is the best player in major league baseball today. If you compare Craig Biggio very carefully to Ken Griffey Jr. in almost any season, you will find that Biggio has contributed more to his team than Griffey has. ... (A)part from home runs, (Biggio) did everything better than Griffey (in 1998)." (New Baseball Abstract) MORE STORIES Bill James: Baseball not just by the numbers DIZZY DEAN: "(Jimmie) Wilson was the Cardinals catcher when Dizzy Dean came up. He tried to take Dean under his wing, which was kind of like trying to keep a rhinoceros in your bathroom; Dizzy Dean would make Nuke LaLoosh look like a Republican senator." (New Baseball Abstract)

85. NewMexiKen » Bill Veeck … bill veeck was also the man who planted the vines in Wrigley Field. Corporate baseball would never allow someone like veeck to own and operate a team http://newmexiken.com/archives/2005/02/004808.php

NewMexiKen Half Wisdom · Half Whimsy · Half Wit Wednesday, February 9, 2005 the man who brought a midget (Eddie Gaedel) to bat in the major leagues, was born on this date in 1914. Veeck as in Wreck Veeck (it rhymes with wreck) died in 1986. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991. Filed on February 9, 2005, under Sports Tom Says: February 9th, 2005 at 11:46 am Grandpa's Sweeties NewMexiKen Stats 6,054 posts 1,733 comments Katrina Donations Amazon Search NewMexiKen NewMexiKen Pages American Indian or Native American? Flag at Half Staff: The Law Largest College Stadiums Ron Howard's Brother ... The Sweeties Categories Albuquerque and New Mexico American Indian Issues Automobiles Best Line of the Day ... Uncategorized Archives February 2005 S M T W T F S September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 ... August 2003 Meta NewMexiKen is powered by and hosted by Hosting Matters Valid XHTML 1.1 Valid CSS 20 queries / 3.909 seconds var site="sm4newmexiken"

86. ALA | Major League Books The New bill James Historical baseball Abstract. Rev. ed. veeck, bill, andLinn, Ed. veeck as in Wreck The Autobiography of bill veeck. Putnam, 1962. http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/campaign/sponsorship/jtmlhome/jtml/majorleaguebooks.h

Major League Fiction Brock, Darryl. Havana Heat. Total Sports, 2000. Luther Taylor, a deaf-mute pitcher who hopes to win a spot on the New York Giants in 1911, finds himself in Cuba coaching a team of Cubans set to play the Giants in a big-money exhibition game. Fascinating social history, believable characters, and terrific ambience. Coover, Robert. The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh. Prop, 1968. J. Henry Waugh is a lonely accountant whose life is consumed by the Universal Baseball Association, a board game of his own creation. Is this a baseball novel or a parable about God? For anyone who has ever hunched over a baseball board game or participated in a rotisserie league, the question may be moot. Duncan, David James. The Brothers K. Doubleday, 1992. Baseball, Vietnam and Seventh Day Adventism form the three corners of this moving, wide-ranging epic of the Chance family in rural Washington State. Brashler, William. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings. Harper, 1973. The history of the Negro Leagues told in the form of a rollicking road novel. Poignant, big-hearted and full of wit.

87. Kids Domain - Baseball Fun baseball sites for kids. Original coloring pages, crafts, word searches, mazes, bill veeck, 1976. A life is not important except in the impact it has on http://www.kidsdomain.com/sports/baseball/quotes.html

Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_xl=0;Ads_yl=0;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_opt=0;Ads_wrd='[KeyWord]';Ads_prf='';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_sec=0;Ads_channels=''; Msg Boards Login Home Travel Parties Reviews Resources Holidays Clipart Crafts Shop Camps Baseball Quotes We've gathered advice on the game from some of baseball's greatest players. See what tips these athletes offer to the next generation of ball players. Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. Satchel Paige You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them. Satchel Paige Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. Satchel Paige It ain't over till it's over. Yogi Berra You observe a lot by watching. Yogi Berra My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. Hank Aaron Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. Bo Jackson The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. Babe Ruth Winners make goals, losers make excuses.

88. Gigablast Search Results 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 http://dir.gigablast.com/Sports/Baseball/People/Management/Veeck,_Bill/

Family filter: On Off Entire Directory Entire Category Pages in Base Category Sites in Base Category Top Sports Baseball People ... Veeck,_Bill Related Categories: Sports: Baseball: Major League: Teams: Chicago White Sox Sports: Baseball: Major League: Teams: Cleveland Indians Sports: Baseball: People: Players: G: Gaedel, Eddie Sports: Baseball: Major League: Teams: St. Louis Browns ... 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. www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/veeck_bill.htm [archived copy] [stripped] [older copies] - indexed: Apr 26 2005 - modified: Apr 14 2005 VeeckAs in Wreck Bill Veeck's autobiography. Site includes reviews, an excerpt, and ordering information. press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14283.ctl [older copies] - indexed: Apr 26 2005 Family filter: On Off Entire Directory Entire Category Pages in Base Category Sites in Base Category Try your search on gigablast google yahoo msn ... dmoz Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. Submit a Site Open Directory Project Become an Editor

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90. PBS VIDEOIndex Online Printed Index on AllAmerican Girls Professional baseball League, BASE011/5947 Negro Leagues veeck, bill, Jr. Landis, Judge Kenesaw Mountain, and, BASE011/10318 http://videoindex.pbs.org/printed_index/printed.jsp?item_id=6294&subject=ALL&tit

91. Bill Veeck Quotes. Famous Quotes By Bill Veeck. bill veeck quotes baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderlyworld. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can t get http://chatna.com/author/veeck.htm

Famous quotes by Bill Veeck From All the Best Quotes Home Search Bill Veeck quotes 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. The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people. There are only two seasons - winter and baseball. I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

92. Baseball -- Special Collections -- Ritter Audio Tapes 1, bill veeck, 3 Aug 1963, Easton MD. 2, bill veeck (cont). 3, bill veeck (cont).4, Goose Goslin, 7 Aug 1963, Bayside NJ. 5, Goose Goslin (cont) http://www.sports.nd.edu/Baseball/ritter.html

BASEBALL - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS - RITTER AUDIO TAPES Location: HESB Special Coll (Sports) row 4, sec 9 Note: Tape numbers are those of Lawrence Ritter; they are broadly consistent with the order in which the interviews were conducted. Most tapes are 1 mil mylar, 1/4 in x 1800 ft on 7 inch reels. Unless noted otherwise in the comments, recordings are single track at 7.5 ips; most of these latter have a playing time of around 45 minutes. Transcripts are available for the following subjects: Jimmy Austin, Rube Bressler, Al Bridwell, Sam Crawford, Heinie Groh, Charley Jamieson, Willie Kamm, Marty McHale, Fred Snodgrass, Paul Waner, Billy Werber, Joe Wood. No Subject Date Place Comments Bill Veeck 3 Aug 1963 Easton MD Bill Veeck (cont) Bill Veeck (cont) Goose Goslin 7 Aug 1963 Bayside NJ Goose Goslin (cont) Goose Goslin (cont) Billy Werber 8 Aug 1963 Washington DC Billy Werber (cont) Billy Werber (cont) Rube Marquard 8 Aug 1963 Baltimore MD Rube Marquard (cont) Rube Marquard (cont) Bill Wambsganss 14 Aug 1963 Lakewood OH Bill Wambsganss (cont) Bill Wambsganss (cont) Bob O'Farrell 16 Aug 1963 Waukegan IL Bob O'Farrell (cont) Bob O'Farrell (cont) George Gibson 20 Aug 1963 Mt Brydges ON Joe Wood 15 Oct 1963 Twin Lakes PA TR: 2. SP: 7.5 ips. T: 2 hrs

93. Minor League Baseball History Top 100 Teams By bill Weiss Marshall Wright, baseball Historians In 1941, the Brewerswere purchased by the eccentric bill veeck. He immediately pumped money into http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/milb/history/top100.jsp?idx=100

94. Moviebb The life of Lou Gehrig could very well be the best baseball movie ever made. bill veeck, Bob Feller, Lou Boudreau, Satchell Paige and others have http://www.sandlotshrink.com/moviebb.htm

Best Baseball Movies Golden Age (1930-1969) best to worst 1. Pride Of the Yankees (1942)... The life of Lou Gehrig could very well be the best baseball movie ever made. It casts Gary Cooper perfectly as the Iron Horse with Teresa Wright and Walter Brennan in supporting roles. Babe Ruth, Joe McCarthy, Bill Dickey, Bob Muesel and Mark Koenig have cameos. Nominated for best picture, as was Wright for best actress. Ex-National League slugger Lefty O'Doul tutored the right-handed Cooper as best he could. (Ex-Dodger star Babe Herman doubled for Cooper in the long shots.) Final sequence extremely moving. Filmed at the ubiquitous Wrigley Field in Los Angeles (home of the PCL Angels) where most of the ballpark scenes were filmed prior to 1960 including 1959's syndicated TV show, Home Run Derby 2. The Stratton Story (1949)... The story of White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton, whose leg was amputated at age 26 after a hunting accident was a box office smash starring Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson. Frank Morgan steals a few scenes as manager Barney Wiles. Stratton, who was an active advisor on the set, won 36 games in his brief career with a trick pitch he called the gander. Ex-players Jimmy Dykes, Bill Dickey, Spec Shea, Ted Lyons and active (at the time) players Luke Appling, Gene Beardon, Lou Novikoff and George Vico appear. Won an Oscar for best story. Filmed at L.A.'s Wrigley Field and Gilmore Park as well as scenes in Comiskey Park, Cleveland Stadium, Griffith Stadium and Tiger Stadium. 3. It Happens Every Spring (1949)...

95. Largehearted Boy: Baseball Books bill James Historical baseball Abstract, by bill James bill James is a leader in veeck As In Wreck The Autobiography of bill veeck, by bill veeck http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2004/02/baseball_books.html

Largehearted Boy Map about a boy largehearted portal largehearted boy weblog fingertips weblog ... gbv radio Contact e-mail AOL IM ICQ Yahoo Messenger ... my wishlist Search Search Largehearted Boy Note Books John Darnielle John Vanderslice Book Notes 2005 Contributions 52 Books 52 Weeks The Resolution 52 Books 2005 Archive 52 Books ... 2004 Archive Tuesday Tunes "Alabama Nova" "Going to Lebanon" Mountain Goats Previous Selections Main February 23, 2004 Baseball Books With spring training in session (for pitchers, catchers and voluntary workouts), I find myself devouring every bit of news about my favorite team (the Phillies) and anticipating the upcoming season. I am especially fond of interesting baseball books, here are my favorites of the moment: The Great American Novel, by Philip Roth : I've read this wartime farce several times, and I'm always laughing out loud throughout the book. The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., by Robert Coover : This is an amazing novel that follows a clerk and his fascination with his dice-based baseball simulation. Eventually the lines between reality and fantasy begin to blur, and that's where the novel takes off. I particularly enjoyed this book because I played baseball board games as a kid. My brother and I would eagerly await each year's shipment of the Strat-O-Matic cards, and draft our own teams for our own league.

96. Baseball: Chicago Baseball Trivia Inducted into The National baseball Hall of Fame in 1991, bill veeck (19141986)was one of the most innovative team owners in professional baseball history http://www.fieldmuseum.org/baseball/trivia7.html

Which two-time owner of the Chicago White Sox introduced an exploding scoreboard at Comiskey Park? Baseball As America Baseball Home About the Exhibition Chicago Baseball Trivia Baseball Timeline ... Field Museum Home 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605-2496 Linking Policy Technical Support webmaster@fieldmuseum.org

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98. Marketing Your Dreams: Business And Life Lessons From Bill Veeck Baseball's Mark bill veeck marketed, promoted, and sold baseball like no one before him and likeno one since. Influenced and inspired by the classic sports book veeck As http://highboskage.com/baseball-books/free.php?in=us&asin=1582611823

99. Grudge Match: PGE Park Battle Reveals New Layers Of Families’ Feud | PortlandTr veeck, the son of legendary baseball team owner bill veeck, baseball’s intheir blood Branch Rickey died in 1965 and bill veeck 20 years later. http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=22024

100. Wrigley Field Some classic moments in baseball history have taken place at Wrigley, startingwith the Ivy was planted on the outfield walls in 1937 by bill veeck, http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/national/wrigle.htm

Wrigley Field Chicago, Illinois Tenant: Chicago Cubs (NL) Opened: April 23, 1914 First Cubs game: April 20, 1916 First night game: August 8, 1988 (scheduled), August 9, 1988 (official) Surface: Merion Bluegrass and clover Architect: Zachary Taylor Davis (1914) Construction: n/a Owner: Charlie Weeghman (1914-1916); Chicago Cubs (since 1916) Cost: Chicago Cubs tickets: Prime Seat Tickets Cubs tickets Baseball tickets MLB All Star tickets ... Wrigley Field tickets and Chicago Bears tickets Gotickets.com - Buy Chicago Cubs tickets World Series tickets , all MLB baseball tickets and concert tickets . Print your Wrigley Field seating chart online. Capacity: Wrigley Field attendance figures A.K.A.: North Side Ball Park (1914); Weeghman Park (1914-15); Cubs’ Park (1916-26); Whales Park (1915); Bobby Dorr’s House. Location: Left field (N), West Waveland Avenue; third base (W), Seminary Avenue; home plate (SW), North Clark Street; first base (S), 1060 West Addison Street; right field (E), North Sheffield Avenue. Dimensions: Left field: 345 (April 1914), 310 (May 1914), 327 (June 1914), 343 (1921), 325 (1923), 348 (1925), 364 (1928), 355 (1938); left center deepest corner in the well: 357 (1938); power alleys: 364 (1914), 368 (1938); center field: 440 (1914), 447 (1923), 436 (1928), 400 (1938); right center deepest corner in the well: 363 (1938); right field: 356 (April 1914), 345 (June 1914), 321 (1915), 298 (1921), 399 (1922), 318 (1923), 321 (1928), 353 (1938); backstop: 62.42 (1930), 60.5 (1957), 62.42 (1982), 60 (current); foul territory: very small.

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