Bill Veeck's Crosstown Classic
Bill Veeck & Ed Linn
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Description
Baseball Hall of Famer Bill Veeck (1914‑86) was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and one of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. Bill Veeck’s Crosstown Classic, drawn from his uproarious autobiography (cowritten with the talented sportswriter Ed Linn), is an unforgettable trip packed with anecdotes and insight about the history of baseball and tales of players and owners‒some of the most entertaining stories in all of sports literature. Veeck’s own love for the game began when his father was manager and then President of the Chicago Cubs; upon his father’s death in 1930, Veeck was hired as an office boy for eighteen dollars a week. Here, Veeck recollects those halcyon days and how they underscored his development as a wily franchise owner, leading up to quite a rumpus, many years later, during his purchase of the White Sox from the “Battling Comiskeys.”

- $3.99
- Category: Sports & Outdoors
- Published: Dec 20, 2012
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Seller: Chicago Distribution Center
- Print Length: 32 Pages
- Language: English
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