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4 produkter

1. 

   Veeck As In Wreck – The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

   The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

   Av Bill Veeck, Ed Linn

   Häftad, 2001

   234 kr

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   Bill Veeck was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and one of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. His classic autobiography, written with the talented sportswriter Ed Linn, is an uproarious book packed with information about the history of baseball and tales of players …

2. 

   Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?

   The Improbable Saga of the New York Met's First Year

   Av Jimmy Breslin, Bill Veeck

   Häftad, 2002

   152 kr

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   Here, back in print, is Jimmy Breslin's marvelous account of the improbable saga of the New York Mets' first year, as Bill Veeck notes in his Introduction, "preserving for all time a remarkable tale of ineptitude, mediocrity, and abject failure." Indeed the 1962 Mets were the worst major league …

3. 

   Hustler's Handbook

   Av Bill Veeck

   Häftad, 2009, 12-15 år

   187 kr

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   What is the difference between a promoter and a hustler?" Bill Veeck asks. "Well, let's look at it this way. Neither one of them is an advertiser. An advertiser pays for his space. A promoter works out a quid pro quo . A hustler gets a free ride and makes it seem as if he's doing you a favor." Keep …

4. 

   Thirty Tons a Day

   Av Bill Veeck

   Häftad, 2009

   185 kr

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   In between his romances with baseball, in early 1969 Bill Veeck took up the challenge of managing Boston's semi–moribund Suffolk Downs racetrack. "Being of sound mind and in reasonable possession of my faculties," Veeck wrote, "I marshaled my forces, at the tender age of fifty–four, and marched …