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Eddie Gaedel, who stood 3’7″ tall, holds the grand distinction of being the shortest Major League player in history. The ...
The White Sox celebrated their late owner and Hall of Famer, Bill Veeck, throughout Saturday’s 3-1 loss against the Guardians ...
The Chicago White Sox threw a party that would have made Bill Veeck proud. The club celebrated its quirky former owner with ...
When the Savannah Bananas brought their one-of-a-kind Banana Ball to Chicago for two sold-out nights, owner Jesse Cole couldn ...
Eddie Gaedel worked jobs that fit. In World War II he was a riveter who crawled into plane engines and wings. And once, he was a big league player.
White Sox president Bill Veeck acknowledges the cheers of nearly 19,000 fans on Sept. 30, 1980, in Comiskey Park during ceremonies honoring the 66-year-old baseball maverick’s contributions to ...
Hello everyone I’m Dan Lucy on the Ozarks First digital desk. Baseball promotions are common place these days, from Wolf ...
The son of former Indians owner Bill Veeck is glad to see the "Chief Wahoo" logo, implemented by his father in 1947, will be eliminated from uniforms after this season.
Although Bill Veeck was dissuaded from using the 20-second monitoring device, his son implemented a similar one in St. Paul 25 years ago, but just once. "It's a rule, for God's sake," Mike Veeck said.
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.
Bill Veeck developed a lifelong fascination for concessions while working at Wrigley, first as a vendor, and eventually as head of concessions in the late ’30s, when he employed a young ...
As a boy, Veeck learned about the game from the legendary John McGraw, who played for the 1891 Baltimore Orioles, and as a 65-year-old he gave Tony LaRussa, who led the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals to ...