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Bill Veeck's Crosstown Classic
By Bill Veeck and Ed Linn
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Baseball Hall of Famer Bill Veeck (1914–86) was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and one of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. Bill Veeck’s Crosstown Classic, drawn from his uproarious autobiography (cowritten with the talented sportswriter Ed Linn), is an unforgettable trip packed with anecdotes and insight about the history of baseball and tales of players and owners—some of the most entertaining stories in all of sports literature. Veeck’s own love for the game began when his father was manager and then President of the Chicago Cubs; upon his father’s death in 1930, Veeck was hired as an office boy for eighteen dollars a week. Here, Veeck recollects those halcyon days and how they underscored his development as a wily franchise owner, leading up to quite a rumpus, many years later, during his purchase of the White Sox from the “Battling Comiskeys.”
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This excerpt from Bill Veeck's autobiography Veeck--As In Wreck is the February free e-book from the University of Chicago Press, which consists of two chapters from that book. Veeck (1914-1986) was a famous baseball innovator and owner of three professional ball clubs, who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991. He is best known for planting the ivy at Wrigley Field, the longtime home of the Chicago Cubs; signing Larry Doby, the first African American to play for an American League team (the Cleveland Indians) in July 1947, several months after Jackie Robinson integrated the National League in May of that year (with the Brooklyn Dodgers); using the midget Eddie Gaedel as a pinch hitter for the woeful St. Louis Browns in 1951; and his disastrous 1979 promotion "Disco Demolition Night" while he owned the Chicago White Sox, which led to a riot in the stands and a forfeiture of the game. Veeck was a colorful and controversial figure, and I thought that this excerpt would be an entertaining short read. It consists of two chapters, "The Battle of Wrigley Field", which describes his early career spent working for Chicago Cubs owner Phil Wrigley, his successful idea to cover the outfield wall with ivy, and his failure in getting Wrigley to install lights for night games, which was mildly interesting, and "Chuck Comiskey and the National Debt", a dreadfully boring financially based discussion of his acquisition of the Chicago White Sox in the late 1950s. These chapters were poorly written and massively disappointing, and I'd only recommend this excerpt to the diehard fan of either Chicago baseball club.
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