Rate Field, Chicago (Veeck, As in SPECtacular)
By Associated Press or ACME Newspictures or team photographer - The Philadelphia Inquirer, Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4443428 I find it impossible to go to a White Sox game in Rate Field, with the “exploding scoreboard” and memories of the out-of-control “Disco Demolition Night,” without thinking about Bill Veeck , one of my absolute favorite characters in the history of baseball. “Character” is completely appropriate for Veeck. He owned three major league teams, one of them (the White Sox) twice, and made a play for ownership of at least three others, and did something memorable everywhere it went, even if it was just having the shortest player in major league history (see photo above, story below). In 1962, between his two stints owning the White Sox, he published an autobiography titled Veeck – As in Wreck , a play on his difficult-to-pronounce last name. Bill Veeck was innovative, original, outspoken, hated by his fellow owners (he...