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Greenberg and Veeck
After the 1947 season, Greenberg retired from the field to become the Cleveland Indians ' farm system director and two years later, their general manager and part-owner along with Bill Veeck.
" When Veeck sold his interest, Greenberg remained as general manager and part-owner until 1957.
Veeck would sell his shares in the White Sox in, and Greenberg stepped down as general manager on August 26 of that season.
Greenberg immediately became the favorite to become the new team's first owner and persuaded Veeck to join him as his partner.
Greenberg later became a successful investment banker, briefly returning to baseball as a minority partner with Veeck when the latter repurchased the White Sox in 1975.
Among those testifying on his behalf were former players Jackie Robinson and Hank Greenberg, and former owner Bill Veeck ; no active players testified, nor did any attend the trial.
One year later in 1960, Veeck and former Detroit Tigers great Hank Greenberg, his partner with the Indians and White Sox, reportedly made a strong bid for the American League expansion franchise in Los Angeles, California, with Veeck as a minority partner.
Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg was initially on the fast track to be the team's first owner, with Bill Veeck as a partner.
After it became obvious that O ' Malley would never sign off on the deal as long as Veeck was a part-owner, Greenberg was forced to bow out.

Greenberg and teamed
Greenberg typically teamed up with another editor, splitting the duties of story selection, editing, copyright searches, and the handling of author royalties.

Greenberg and up
Among the investors was Bob Hope, who had grown up in Cleveland, and former Tigers slugger, Hank Greenberg.
Greenberg was not bitter, however, stating, " I made up my mind to go when I was called.
* Following up on earlier leads, the Greenberg group report finding that the protein TDP-43 is a very prominent and highly sensitive and specific feature of IBM.
Joseph Greenberg, in The Languages of Africa, set up the family with the following branches.
Tiara Records, along with The Shirelles ' contract, was sold to Decca Records in 1959 for $ 4000 ; Greenberg stayed as the manager, securing performances for the group, including one at the Howard Theatre in Washington D. C. After two singles did poorly, including their first release — with Coley as lead vocalist — of " Dedicated to the One I Love ", a cover of The " 5 " Royales song of the same name, Decca returned them to Greenberg and gave up on them, considering them a one-hit act ; On Greenberg's new label, Scepter Records, they re-released " Dedicated to the One I Love " as a single, which peaked at # 89 ; Wayne Wadhams, David Nathan, and Susan Lindsay in Inside the Hits attribute the low rating to poor distribution.
For Greenberg, avant garde art was too " innocent " to be effectively used as propaganda or bent to a cause, while kitsch was ideal for stirring up false sentiment.
This term, which had first been used in 1919 in Berlin, was used again in 1946 by Robert Coates in The New York Times, and was taken up by the two major art critics of that time, Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg.
The group often took up argumentative positions against such prevailing views of critics like Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried.
Leading up to spring training, Doby read books concerning outfield play and during, received instruction and encouragement from former Indian great and center fielder Tris Speaker and Hank Greenberg.
In 2002, playwright Richard Greenberg released The Dazzle, which told a story loosely based on the brothers ' lives after their parents ' deaths, leading up to their own death.
However, some of Greenberg's doctors felt that this was not a true delusion but rather something Greenberg had made up on the spot to impress her psychiatrist.
Interviewed by Donald Honig in the 1970s, Cramer told of how he would tease Greenberg: " So anywhere I go and Hank is there, I always say, ' You know, once they walked me to get to Hank Greenberg ' --- and never tell ' em what happened, and then Hank always jumps up and says, ' Hey, tell ' em what happened.
While growing up, his two favorite baseball players were Lou Gehrig and Hank Greenberg.
The Buffett Foundation was set up in 1964 but had no director until Greenberg took the job in 1987.
Though Detroit put up single runs in the sixth and eighth ( via a Goose Goslin single that scored Greenberg and a solo home run by Greenberg ), they could get no closer, as Dean struck out Gee Walker to give the Cardinals an 8 – 3 win and a 1 – 0 lead in the series.
Swadesh's Basque-Dennean thus differed from Dené-Caucasian in including ( 1 ) Uralic, Altaic, Japanese, Chukotian, and Eskimo-Aleut ( languages which are classed as Eurasiatic by the followers of Sergei Starostin and those of Joseph Greenberg ), ( 2 ) Dravidian, which is classed as Nostratic by Starostin's school, and ( 3 ) Austronesian ( which according to Starostin is indeed related to Dené-Caucasian, but only at the next stage up, which he termed Dené-Daic, and only via Austric ( see Borean languages )).
Greenberg and Rowe were both called up to the Tigers in.
* In June 2006, Greenberg Traurig agreed to pay the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation $ 7. 6 million for its role as a legal adviser to the now defunct Hamilton Bank of Miami, to settle allegations that it had helped to cover up bank officers ' financial misconduct.
He started with the Double-A West Tenn Diamond Jaxx and on July 8, he was called up along with Adam Greenberg, replacing the struggling Corey Patterson, and Jason Dubois.

Greenberg and for
* Adrian ( costume designer ) ( 1903 – 1959 ), born Adrian Adolph Greenberg, costume designer for over 250 films
Clement Greenberg, for instance, argued in 1960 that each artistic medium should seek that which makes it unique among the possible mediums and then purify itself of anything other than expression of its own uniqueness as a form.
His classification was the standard one for many years ( Greenberg 1955: 3 ).
A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation.
Greenberg is the American League record holder for most RBIs in a single season by a right-handed batter — 183 RBI in 1937 ( a 154-game schedule.
Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 / year in salary ( he was paid $ 100, 000, ($ today ) plus $ 25, 000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him ).
Greenberg turned them down and instead attended New York University for a year, after which he signed with the Detroit Tigers for $ 9, 000 ($ today ).
Greenberg played minor league baseball for three years.
Greenberg played 17 games in 1930 for Hartford, then played at Raleigh, North Carolina, where he hit. 314 with 19 home runs.
In 1935 Greenberg led the league in RBIs ( 170 ), total bases ( 389 ), and extra base hits ( 98 ), tied Foxx for the AL title in home runs ( 36 ), was 2nd in the league in doubles ( 46 ), slugging percentage (. 628 ), was 3rd in the league in triples ( 16 ), and in runs scored ( 121 ), 6th in on base percentage (. 411 ) and walks ( 87 ), and was 7th in batting average (. 328 ).
Still, Greenberg came in only 3rd in the vote for MVP.
A prodigious home run hitter, Greenberg narrowly missed breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in 1938, when he was again voted to the All-Star Team and hit 58 home runs, leading the league for the second time.
After having been passed over for the All-Star team in 1935 and being left on the bench for the 1937 game, Greenberg refused to participate in the 1938 contest.
In 1938, Greenberg led the league in runs scored ( 144 ) and at-bats per home run ( 9. 6 ), tied for the AL lead in walks ( 119 ), was second in RBIs ( 146 ), slugging percentage (. 683 ), and total bases ( 380 ), and third in OBP (. 438 ) and set a still-standing major league record of 39 homers in his home park, the newly reconfigured Briggs Stadium.
In 1939 Greenberg was voted to the All-Star Team for the third year in a row.
In 1940, Greenberg was voted to the All-Star team for the 4th year in a row.
The Detroit draft board initially classified Greenberg as 4F for " flat feet ".
Rumors that he had bribed the board and concern that he would be likened to Jack Dempsey, who had received negative publicity for failure to serve in World War I, led Greenberg to be reexamined, and he was found fit to serve.
Greenberg re-enlisted and volunteered for service in the United States Army Air Forces, again the first major league player to do so.
When Greenberg decided to retire rather than play for less, Detroit sold his contract to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Greenberg played first base for the Pirates in 1947 and was one of the few opposing players to publicly welcome Jackie Robinson to the majors.
In his final season of 1947, Greenberg tied for the league lead in walks with 104, with a. 408 on-base percentage and finished eighth in the league in home runs and tenth in slugging percentage.
Greenberg also hit for average, earning a lifetime batting average of. 313.

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