Fathers and Sons

Bill Veeck
(White Sox owner, 1976-1981)

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  • Learns basic promotional skills in minors, enhances them in majors   
  • Installs shower in Comiskey Park bleachers to let fans cool off
  • Takes the heat for son's 1979 Disco Demolition promotion
  • Turns broadcaster Harry Caray's singing into a selling point
  • Author of Veeck as in Wreck
  • Son: Mike Veeck

    • Like father like son:

  • Mary Shane, baseball's first female radio broadcaster,
    gets her start with Bill Veeck's 1977 White Sox

  • Ila Borders, baseball's first professional female player,
    gets her start with Mike Veeck's 1997 St. Paul Saints

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