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Bill Veeck Berühmte Gedenkstätte Veteran

Ursprünglicher Name
William
Geburt
Hinsdale, DuPage County, Illinois, USA
Tod
2 Jan 1986 (im Alter von 71)
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Bestattung
Feuerbestattung, Ashes scattered. Insbesondere: Ashes scattered in Lake Michigan
Gedenkstätten-ID
5860750 Quelle ansehen

Major League Baseball Franchise Owner. He was the flamboyant owner of three different Major League Baseball teams: the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, and Chicago White Sox; He also owned some minor league teams. His teams consistently broke attendance records by winning pennants, offering outrageous door prizes, having enthusiastic fan participation, and having ingenious promotional schemes. An innovative hustler and energetic maverick, he introduced to baseball a midget player, Eddie Gaedel, "Bat Day", fireworks, exploding scoreboards and player names on the back of their uniform. He signed the American League's first black player, Larry Doby in 1947, and the oldest rookie, 42-year-old Satchel Paige in 1948. Besides baseball, he was an ardent civil rights activist who was deeply involved in that movement in the 1960s. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991.

Major League Baseball Franchise Owner. He was the flamboyant owner of three different Major League Baseball teams: the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, and Chicago White Sox; He also owned some minor league teams. His teams consistently broke attendance records by winning pennants, offering outrageous door prizes, having enthusiastic fan participation, and having ingenious promotional schemes. An innovative hustler and energetic maverick, he introduced to baseball a midget player, Eddie Gaedel, "Bat Day", fireworks, exploding scoreboards and player names on the back of their uniform. He signed the American League's first black player, Larry Doby in 1947, and the oldest rookie, 42-year-old Satchel Paige in 1948. Besides baseball, he was an ardent civil rights activist who was deeply involved in that movement in the 1960s. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991.

Biografie von: Ron Moody



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  • Gepflegt von: Find a Grave
  • Ursprünglich erstellt von: Ron Moody
  • Hinzugefügt: 19 Okt 2001
  • ID der Find-a-Grave-Gedenkstätte: 5860750
  • Find a Grave, Datenbank und Bilder (https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/5860750/bill-veeck: aufgerufen ), Gedenkstättenseite für Bill Veeck (9 Feb 1914–2 Jan 1986), Gedenkstätten-ID bei Find a Grave 5860750; Feuerbestattung, Ashes scattered, Ashes scattered in Lake Michigan; Gepflegt von Find a Grave.