Baseball has seen its share of players who have been hyped before they ever played a game in the Major Leagues. Look no ...

He had just recently joined the St. Louis Browns when he was replaced in the lineup by Eddie Gaedel, a 3-foot-7 circus ...

Frank Saucier had one hit in 14 at-bats in a brief Major League career, but it’s a plate appearance he didn’t get that ties ...

Learn about Larry Doby, who became the second African American player in Major League Baseball when he signed with the ...

In subsequent decades, the bookies just kept showing up at the ballpark. Gamblers, as legendary former owner Bill Veeck once said, are “good customers of a ball club.” ...

Reinsdorf has owned the White Sox since purchasing the team from Bill Veeck in 1981. Still, after years of mismanagement, cost-cutting, and public frustration, his continued ownership remains a ...

Then again in 1950-51. In 1947 Bill Veeck, owner of the Indians, took his team to Tucson for spring training, and Horace Stoneham organized spring training for his New York Giants in Phoenix.

but it’s well known inside the Sox organization he didn’t even have the highest percentage of shares when his group purchased the team from Bill Veeck. Forbes estimated it in 2024 at 19% of ...