Bill Veeck
Businessman
1914-02-09 – 1986-01-02
Bill Veeck was an American baseball executive and team owner known for innovative promotions and for integrating the American League by signing Larry Doby to the Cleveland Indians in 1947.
Quotes by Bill Veeck
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After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
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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.
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The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
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The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.
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There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
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