Episode 11: The Veeck Effect
Rounders: A History of Baseball in America
English - December 14, 2018 19:48 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 101 ratingsSports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What do cornflakes, nylon stockings, exploding scoreboards, baseball jerseys, and disco all have in common? Bill Veeck used them all to get fans into ballparks. And he changed baseball thanks to his visionary marketing and promotional strategies.
But he wasn't just a showman. Bill's advocacy of African Americans in the MLB, along with his support for player rights, guarantees his status as one of the great baseball visionaries.
Chapter 1: In His Father's Image (1:42)
Chapter 2: Promoter Extraordinaire (5:53)
Chapter 3: The Abe Lincoln of Baseball (20:02)
Chapter 4: Baseball's Visionary (32:16)
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