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Language: en
Pages: 401
Pages: 401
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-24 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Bill Veeck was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and one of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. His classic autobiography, writte
Language: en
Pages: 601
Pages: 601
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-24 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
William Louis "Bill" Veeck, Jr. (1914-1986) is legendary in many ways-baseball impresario and innovator, independent spirit, champion of civil rights in a time
Language: en
Pages: 0
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
What is the difference between a promoter and a hustler?" Bill Veeck asks. "Well, let's look at it this way. Neither one of them is an advertiser. An advertiser
Language: en
Pages: 0
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
In between his romances with baseball, in early 1969 Bill Veeck took up the challenge of managing Boston's semi-moribund Suffolk Downs racetrack. When he took o