Bill Veeck
Bill Veeck
William Louis "Bill" Veeck, Jr., also known as "Sport Shirt Bill", was a native of Chicago, Illinois, and a franchise owner and promoter in Major League Baseball. Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox. As owner and team president of the Indians in 1947, Veeck signed Larry Doby, thus beginning the integration of the American League. Veeck was the last owner to purchase a baseball franchise without an independent...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth9 February 1914
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it.
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed
If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.
Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.
People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.