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Veeck reportedly got the idea of ivy on the walls from Perry Stadium in Indianapolis.
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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.
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As soon as he could, Bill Veeck got rid of those three ," Doby said.
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At age 13, Veeck came up with the idea of planting ivy on the walls of Wrigley Field.
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In 1927 an upper deck was added, and in 1937, Bill Veeck, the son of the club president, planted ivy vines against the outfield walls.
The ivy was planted in 1937 by the Cubs General Manager Bill Veeck, as part of Cubs owner P. K.
( Bill Veeck Jr. was 23 years old when the ivy was planted ).
" Mike's late father, Bill Veeck, Jr. is a well known baseball owner and counts one of his accomplishments as planting the ivy at Wrigley Field.
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Making the most of the cavernous stadium, Veeck had a portable center field fence installed, which he could move in or out depending on how the distance favored the Indians against their opponents in a given series.
Veeck would sell his shares in the White Sox in, and Greenberg stepped down as general manager on August 26 of that season.
When Veeck returned to Cleveland, he was asked by reporter Cleveland Jackson with the Call and Post when the Indians would have a black player on its roster.
Veeck finalized a contract deal for Doby with Manley on July 3.
The Eagles had a doubleheader on July 4 but Doby, who had a. 415 batting average and 14 home runs to that point in the season, only played in the first as Veeck sent his assistant and public relations personnel member, Louis Jones, for Doby.
After firing the White Sox's manager and former Doby teammate Bob Lemon, Veeck replaced him with Doby on June 30,.
After removing Doby from the manager's role and reassigning him to batting coach, the position Doby held before being named manager, Veeck said, " Larry will always have a role on this team in some capacity.
Years later, on July 12, 2001, Mike Veeck apologized to Casey for the event.
Upon assuming ownership in 1947, Bill Veeck, after being approached by Boudreau, renewed the player-manager agreement with mixed feelings on both sides.
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.
Bill Veeck hired Lemon on November 16, 1977, to succeed Paul Richards as the Chicago White Sox ' manager.
Lemon was fired the following season on June 30, 1978, by Veeck after Chicago posted a 34 – 40 record in the first half of the 1978 season.
" This change is not meant as any commentary on Lemon's ability but rather was the result of unusual circumstances which seemed to make a change necessary ," said Veeck.
Many of its known characteristics, such as the pinwheels on the " exploding " scoreboard, were installed by Bill Veeck ( owner of the White Sox from 1959 to 1961, and again from 1975 to 1981 ).
At some point he started " conducting " Take Me Out to the Ball Game during the seventh-inning stretch, egged on by Veeck, who ( according to Harry himself ) said that the fans would sing along when they realized that none of them sang any worse than Harry did.
The most famous ( or infamous ) promotional event ever held at Old Comiskey was " Disco Demolition Night ", organized by longtime Chicago radio personality Steve Dahl and White Sox promotions manager Mike Veeck ( Bill's son ) on July 12, 1979.
Bill Veeck was born on February 9, 1914, in Chicago, Illinois.
Veeck Sr. was a local sports writer who wrote several columns about how he would have run the Cubs differently, and the team's owner, William Wrigley Jr., took him up on it.
Saperstein saved Veeck from financial disaster early on in Milwaukee by giving him the right to promote the Globetrotters in the upper Midwest in the winter of 1941-42.
Shortly afterwards " Grandstand Manager's Day " – involving Veeck, Connie Mack, and thousands of regular fans, enabled the crowd to vote on various in-game strategic decisions by holding up placards: the Browns won, 5 – 3, snapping a four-game losing streak.
In 1959, Veeck became head of a group that purchased a controlling interest in the Chicago White Sox, who went on to win their first pennant in 40 years.
Veeck presented a Bicentennial-themed " Spirit of ' 76 " parade on Opening Day in 1976, casting himself as the peg-legged fifer bringing up the rear.
According to his own autobiography, Veeck-As in Wreck, Indians owner Bill Veeck would move the fence in or out, varying by as much as 15 feet, depending on how it would favor the Indians, a practice that ended when the American League specifically legislated against moving fences during the course of a given season.
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Another Veeck innovation was the " picnic area ", created by replacing portions of the left field walls ( the side of the field not facing the setting sun ) with screens and setting up picnic tables under the seating areas.
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In Bill Veeck formed an investment group that purchased the Cleveland Indians from Bradley's group for a reported $ 1. 6 million.
On September 23, 1949, Bill Veeck and the Indians buried their 1948 pennant in center field the day after they were mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
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.
Veeck had already undertaken efforts in hopes of locating a young, talented player from the Negro leagues.
Unlike the Brooklyn Dodgers ' Branch Rickey who in 1945 declined to pay for the purchasing rights of Robinson with the Kansas City Monarchs, and other owners and general managers in later seasons who felt Negro leagues ' owners did not have to be compensated for luring away their talent, Veeck was " determined to buy Doby's contract from the Eagles.
Veeck paid her a total of $ 15, 000 for her second basemen —$ 10, 000 for taking him from the Eagles and another $ 5, 000 once it was determined he would stay with the Indians for at least 30 days.
Veeck hired two plainclothes police officers to accompany Doby as he went to Comiskey Park to prevent the large number of black fans from affecting the first black player to enter an American League stadium.
" Bill Veeck claimed Landis prevented him from purchasing the Phillies when Landis learned of Veeck's plan to integrate the team.
" Veeck, after looking at pictures from the game said, " They are very interesting pictures, but the game is over.
As mentioned in Veeck ’ s memoirs, his bold plan was to buy the Phillies and stock the team ’ s roster with stars from the Negro Leagues.
Most of the bids came from out-of-town interests, and it appeared that Veeck would succeed in driving the Cardinals out of town.
Veeck would have probably had to sell it in any event ; the 44-year old park was in a poor state of repair, and even with the rent from the Cardinals he did not have the money to bring it up to code.
Veeck was not heard from again in baseball circles until 1975, when he returned as the owner of the White Sox.
On July 12, Veeck, with assistance from son Mike and radio host Steve Dahl, held one of his most infamous promotion nights, Disco Demolition Night, which resulted in a riot at Comiskey Park and a forfeit to the visiting Detroit Tigers.
La Russa spent a half-season at Knoxville before being promoted to the White Sox coaching staff when owner Bill Veeck changed managers from Bob Lemon to Larry Doby.
His first job after graduating from Northwestern in 1960 was a tax delinquency case of Bill Veeck who at the time owned the White Sox.
Veeck claimed that he moved the team's training camp from Florida to Arizona in order to avoid Florida's Jim Crow laws.
DeWitt and his brother Charlie ( 1901 – 1967 ), the Browns ' traveling secretary, bought control of the club from majority owner Richard C. Muckerman in 1948, but the team ’ s struggles on the field and at the box office continued, and the DeWitts sold the Browns to Bill Veeck in 1951.
Bill DeWitt remained in the Browns ' front office until Veeck was forced to sell the club ; it then moved from St. Louis to become the Baltimore Orioles in 1954.
DeWitt's last official post in baseball was as chairman of the Chicago White Sox from 1975 to 1981, working with the flamboyant Veeck once again.
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