Fathers and Sons

Mike Veeck
(White Sox executive, 1976-1981)
(Minor league team owner/promoter/consultant)

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  • Learns basic promotional skills with Sox, enhances them in minors
  • Inadvertently invents the "luxury skybox" at Comiskey Park
  • Is persona non grata in MLB after 1979 Disco Demolition promotion
  • Hires baseball's first blind broadcaster (Don Wordlaw)
  • Author of Fun is Good
  • Father: Bill Veeck

    • Like father like son

  • Bill Veeck holds baseball's first Bat Day promotion
  • Mike Veeck holds baseball's first Tonya Harding Mini-Bat Night promotion                 

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