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16 de abr. de 2013 · Bill Veeck certainly took note of his father’s supervision of the building of the modern symbols of the Cubs. With attendance on the rise, a second deck was installed at the newly-renamed Wrigley Field over the course of 1926-1928. The Ladies Days promotions made the Cubs a favorite of female fans, a status that continued.
Bill Veeck spent the balance of his life challenging and bringing change to the business of baseball. A larger than life figure, he was a chain-smoking, charismatic, photogenic redhead with a big open face. He had a deep, compelling voice that writer Dave Kindred said “came as a train in the night.”.
3 de mai. de 2019 · He took two teams to the World Series but earned fame not for winning but for outrageous stunts. Sportswriters dubbed him “the Barnum of Baseball.”. Veeck put blackboards in stadium bathrooms to encourage graffiti. He presented umpires with bouquets of rotting vegetables while the PA system blared “Three Blind Mice.”.
1 de out. de 2019 · Bill Veeck se paseaba por el estadio. Se preocupa de que las promociones salieran bien. Hablaba con los aficionados para averiguar que era lo que les había llevado al estadio. Ayudaba a los acomodadores y a los vendedores de cerveza y perritos calientes. Si era necesario se ponía el pantalón corto y sin darle ninguna importancia al hecho de ...
3 de jan. de 1986 · Bill Veeck, the baseball impresario who once sent a midget to bat as a pinch-hitter for the St. Louis Browns, died yesterday in Chicago at the age of 71 after a 45-year career as one of the most ...
When Bill was four, his father, sportswriter William Veeck Sr., became president of the Chicago Cubs. By the time he was 11, Bill was working as a vendor, ticket seller and junior groundskeeper.
Veeck was a Chicago American sportswriter working under the pseudonym Bill Bailey before Cubs owner William Wrigley Jr. hired him to be vice-president of the baseball club in 1917. Having won the National League pennant in 1918, Wrigley promoted him to president of the club in July 1919.
