Bill Veeck Quotes
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
Veeck, Bill, and Ed Linn. Veeck--As in Wreck. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962, p. 106.
Clairew Smith, a young black, female sports reporter, had been insulted and demeaned when she entered the team clubhouse after the game. The Baseball Commissioner had ruled that female reporter should have access to the team clubhouse after the games just like the male reportsers. But the team managment, none the less threw her out. Most of the players were in favor of the women being allowed in an finally pesuaded the managment to relent. But just after Smith had been ejected Steve Garvey followed her out into the hallway where she was crying. Then he made this statement and he did staey with her until she could regain her composure and write her column for the day. It was this kind of behavior that made Garvey a favorite amongst everyone and especially women.
William Louis Veeck Jr., also known as "Sport Shirt", was an American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter. Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox. As owner and team president of the Indians in 1947, Veeck signed Larry Doby, thus beginning the integration of the American League, and the following year won a World Series title as Cleveland's owner/president.
