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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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.
I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.
How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
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 almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.