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    Paul Sullivan: Remembering Mary Frances Veeck, an ambassador for baseball and sounding board for the former White Sox owner

    CHICAGO — Mary Frances Veeck was recalling the night in 1979 that her husband, former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck, returned from a particularly rough night at Comiskey Park. An anti-disco promotion with a local rock station and radio personality Steve Dahl had gone awry, with thousands of fans invading the field and forcing the forfeiture of the second game of a scheduled doubleheader ...
    by Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune Sep 27, 2022 4 minutes
    Bill Veeck, right, and his wife, Mary Frances, on April 9, 1960, to promote the launch of their TV show.

    CHICAGO — Mary Frances Veeck was recalling the night in 1979 that her husband, former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck, returned from a particularly rough night at Comiskey Park.

    An anti-disco promotion with a local rock station and radio personality Steve Dahl had gone awry, with thousands of fans invading the field and forcing the forfeiture of the second game of a scheduled doubleheader with the Detroit Tigers.

    Bill returned to their South Side home in a foul mood.

    “Bill was upset at having to forfeit the game,” Mary Frances told the Chicago Tribune in a 1989 interview.

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