Bill Veeck (63 page)

Mackay, Harvey. “I'd Like 15,000 Tickets for Tonight's Game, Please.” In
Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
. New York: Morrow, 1988.

Maisel, Bob. “In World of Characters, Veeck Was Tough to Top.”
Baltimore Sun,
December 9, 1990.

Mandernach, Mark. “Short Hitter, Long Memory.”
Sports Illustrated
, September 2, 1996.

Mankiewicz, Frank. “Veeck Balked in Havana, and so Did the Cubans.”
Washington Post
, January 5, 1986.

Manley, Effa, and Leon Herbert Hardwick.
Negro Baseball … Before Integration
. Chicago: Adams, 1976.

Mann, Arthur.
The Jackie Robinson Story
. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1950.

Maraniss, David. “Neither a Myth Nor a Legend—Larry Doby Crossed Baseball's Color Barrier After Robinson.”
Washington Post
, July 8, 1997.

Marshall, William.
Baseball's Pivotal Era 1945–1951
. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1999.

McCarthy, Fred. “Veeck as in Wreck?”
Golf World
, January 30, 2004.

McDermott, Mickey, with Howard Eisenberg.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cooperstown.
Chicago: Triumph Books, 2003.

Mehl, Ernest. “Effort to Put Negro Team in N.L. in 30's Disclosed.”
Sporting News
, from an undated clipping in the NBL vertical file marked 1958.

Merchant, Larry. “Bill Veeck Is Off to the Races.”
Look
, July 30, 1970.

Metro, Charlie, with Tom Altherr.
Safe by a Mile
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2002.

Miller, Marvin.
A Whole Different Ball Game: The Sport and Business of Baseball
. Secaucus, NJ: Carol, 1991.

Miller, Patrick B.
Sport and the Color Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth-Century America
. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Moe, Doug. “Bill Veeck Made Baseball Fun.”
Capital Times and Wisconsin State Journal
, October 20, 2005.

Moffi, Larry.
The Conscience of the Game: Baseball Commissioners from Landis to Selig.

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This Side of Cooperstown
. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996.

Moore, Joseph Thomas.
Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby.
New York: Praeger, 1988.

Moore, William. “Bill Veeck's New Life.”
Chicago Tribune
, February 11, 1962.

Muret, Don. “ ‘Turn Back the Clock': One of 49 Events on Chicago White Sox Promo.”
Amusement Business
, May 2, 1994.

Murray, Jim.
Jim Murray: An Autobiography
. New York: Macmillan, 1993.

Myslenski, Skip. “Bill Veeck, the People's Maverick.”
Chicago Tribune
, September 26, 1980.

Nelson, Murry R.
The National Basketball League: A History, 1935–1949
. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009.

Newfield, Jack.
American Rebels.
New York: Thunder Mountain Press/Nation Books, 2003.

Neyer, Rob.
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else
. New York: Fireside, 2008.

Odenkirk, James.
Plain Dealing: A Biography of Gordon Cobbledick
. Tempe, AZ: Spider-Naps, 1990.

O'Neil, Buck.
I Was Right on Time
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

O'Neil, Buck, with Steve Wulf and David Conrads.
I Had It Made.
New York: Fireside, 1996.

Ottley, Roi.
The Lonely Warrior: The Life and Times of Robert S. Abbott
. Chicago: Regnery, 1955.

Overmyer, James.
Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles.
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Trade, 2001.

Paige, Leroy.
Maybe I'll Pitch Forever: A Great Baseball Player Tells the Hilarious Story Behind the Legend.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.

Paige, Leroy, as told to Hal Lebovitz.
Pitchin' Man: Satchel Paige's Own Story.
West-port, CT: Meckler, 1992.

Parker, Gary H.
Win or Go Home: Sudden Death Baseball
. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002.

Patkin, Max, and Stan Hochman.
The Clown Prince of Baseball
. Waco, TX: WRS, 1994.

Pepe, Phil. “The Hustler Is Always Looking for the Big Score.”
Scorebook
(Baseball Writers of America), 1978.

Peterson, Robert.
Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball's Early Years
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

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Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Peverelly, Charles A.
The Book of American Pastimes, Containing a History of the Principal Base-Ball, Cricket, Rowing, and Yachting Clubs of the United States.
New York: Charles A. Peverelly, 1866.

Piersall, Jimmy, and Dick Whittingham.
The Truth Hurts
. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1985.

Pluto, Terry.
Our Tribe: A Baseball Memoir
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.

Pollock, Alan J.
Barnstorming to Heaven: Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams
. Ed.

James A Riley. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006.

Posnanski, Joe.
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

Povich, Shirley.
All Those Mornings … at the
Post:
The 20th Century in Sports from Famed
“
Washington Post
”
Columnist Shirley Povich
. New York: Public Affairs, 2005.

———. “Negro Has Found Real Democracy in Baseball.”
Washington Post
, May 10, 1953.

Powers, Jimmy.
Baseball Personalities: Vivid Stories of More than 50 of the Most Colorful Ball Players of All Time.
New York: Rudolph Field, 1949.

Rampersad, Arnold.
Jackie Robinson: A Biography.
New York: Knopf, 1997.

Raphael, Steve, and Terry Brewster. “Bill Veeck: Send in the Clowns.”
Friends
, May 1980.

Rapoport, Ron. “Veeck Legacy Glows on for Holiday Fetes.”
Chicago Sun-Times
, December 24, 1986.

Ribowsky, Mark.
A Complete History of the Negro Leagues: 1884–1955.
New York: Citadel Press, 2002.

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Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Richmond, Peter.
Ballpark: Camden Yards and the Building of an American Dream
. New York: Fireside, 1995.

Riess, Steven A.
Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Riley, James A.
The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues.
New York: Carroll and Graf, 1994.

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Dandy, Day and the Devil
. Cocoa, FL: TK Publishers, 1987.

Ritter, Lawrence S.
The Glory of Their Times.
New York: Morrow, 1984.

Roberts, Howard. “Bill Veeck … Barnum of Baseball.”
Modern Man
, June 1952.

Robinson, Frazier.
Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues
. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999.

Robinson, Jackie.
Baseball Has Done It
. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1964.

———. “What's Wrong With Negro Baseball.”
Ebony
3, no. 8 (June 1948): 19–25.

Robinson, Jackie, and Alfred Duckett.
I Never Had It Made
. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972.

Robinson, Jackie, as told to Wendell Smith.
Jackie Robinson: My Own Story
. New York: Greenburg, 1948.

Rogosin, Donn.
Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues.
New York: Atheneum, 1983.

Rose, Cynthia. “Veeck—as in Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck.” In
American Decades Primary Sources
, vol. 5:
1940–1949
, ed. Cynthia Rose, 590–94. Detroit: Gale, 2004.

Rosebrook, Jeb Stuart. “Integration and the Early Years of Arizona Spring Training.” In
Mining Towns to Major Leagues: A History of Arizona Baseball
, ed. Mike Holden. Cleveland: Society for American Baseball Research, 1999.

Rubin, Robert.
Satchel Paige: All-Time Baseball Great.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1974.

Ruck, Rob.
Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Rusinack, Kelly, “Baseball on the Radical Agenda: The
Daily Worker
and
Sunday Worker
Journalistic Campaign to Desegregate Major League Baseball, 1933–1947.” In
Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream
, ed. Joseph Dorinson and Joram Warmund, 75–85. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998.

Sandomir, Richard. “Jackie Robinson: Perspective—the Coverage.”
New York Times
, April 13, 1997.

Sanford, David. “Edwards vs. Veeck vs. Edwards.”
Skeptic
, September–October 1977.

Sangree, Allen. “Fans and Their Frenzies: The Wholesome Madness of Baseball.” Everybody's
Magazine
17, no. 3 (September 1907). “Satchel” [editorial].
New York Times
, June 10, 1982.

Schmuhl, Robert. “Bill Veeck Belongs in Hall of Fame.”
Chicago Sun-Times
, July 16, 1996.

Schneider, Russell.
The Boys of the Summer of '48.
Urbana, IL: Sports Publishing, 1998.

Schoor, Gene.
Bob Feller: Hall of Fame Strikeout Star.
New York: Doubleday, 1962.

Schulian, John.
Twilight of the Long-Ball Gods
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

Scully, Gerald W. “Discrimination: The Case of Baseball.” In
Government and the Sports Business
, ed. Roger G. Noll. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1974.

Seymour, Harold.
Baseball: The People's Game.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Shane, Ted. “Bill Veeck—Bad Boy of Baseball.”
Reader's Digest
, April 1952.

Shea, Stuart, with George Castle.
Wrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography.
Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2004.

Sherman, Charles. “St. Louis' Iron Man.”
St. Louis Globe-Democrat Tempo Magazine
, August 12, 1951, 8–10.

Shoemaker, Robert H.
The Best in Baseball
. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1959.

Sickels, John.
Bob Feller: Ace of the Greatest Generation.
Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2004.

Siegel, Morris. “A Way Out.”
Baseball Digest
, February 1967.

Silber, Irwin, with Lester Rodney.
Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports
. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.

Simon, Scott.
Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan
. New York: Hyperion, 2000.

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Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2002.

Smith, Curt.
America's Dizzy Dean.
St. Louis: Bethany Press, 1978.

Smith, Red.
Red Smith on Baseball: The Game's Greatest Writer on the Game's Greatest Years
. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000.

Smith, Robert.
Baseball in the Afternoon: Tales from a Bygone Era.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.

Smyth, Jeanette. “Shrewd Pitches from the Artful Dodger.”
Washington Post,
August 31, 1975.

Snyder, Brad.
Beyond the Shadow of the Senators: The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Solomon, Burt.
The Baseball Timeline: The Day-by-Day History of Baseball from Valley Forge to the Present Day.
New York: Avon Books, 1997.

Spink, J. G. Taylor.
Judge Landis and 25 Years of Baseball
. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1947.

Stark, Douglas. “Paving the Way: History of Integration of African Americans into Professional Basketball League.”
Basketball Digest
, February 2001.

Stengel, Casey, as told to Harry T. Paxton.
Casey at the Bat
. New York: Random House, 1962.

Stewart, Mark. “Bill Veeck: The Tucson Years.”
Arizona Daily Star
, July 14, 1991.

Sugar, Bert Randolph.
Hit the Sign and Win a Free Suit of Clothes from Harry Finklestein
. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1978.

Talley, Rick.
The Cubs of '69: Recollections of the Team That Should Have Been
. Chicago: McGraw-Hill Contemporary, 1989.

Terry, Clifford. “Veeck in Boston: Two Years at the Races.”
Chicago Tribune
, April 4, 1971.

Tootle, Jim. “Bill Veeck and James Thurber: The Literary Origins of the Midget Pinch Hitter.”
Nine
10, no. 2 (Spring 2002).

Torrance, Roscoe C., and Robert F. Karolevitz.
Torchy!
Mission Hill, SD: Homestead, 1988.

Trouppe, Quincy.
20 Years Too Soon: Prelude to Integrated Baseball.
St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1995.

Tye, Larry.
Satchel Paige
:
The Life and Times of an American Legend
. New York: Random House, 2009.

Tygiel, Jules.
Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

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Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

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Pastime: Baseball as History
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

———. “Revisiting Bill Veeck and the 1943 Phillies.”
Baseball Research Journal
35 (2007).

———. “Those Who Came After.”
Sports Illustrated
, June 27, 1983.