After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.

Early life
Bill Veeck was born on February 9 1914 in Chicago Illinois. There was no rule against that activity as such but Veeck then took it to an extreme rolling it out when the opponents batted and pulling it back when the Brewers batted. Veeck Sr.

Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians St. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame five years later in 1991. Finding it hard to financially compete Veeck retired after the 1980 Chicago White Sox season.