I ran across his name in an article I read today, so I'm remembering him. I consider myself extraordinarily lucky.
As a young man, just out of college, for about a year I dated Bill Veeck's daughter, and spent many afternoons in his condo drinking beer with him and listening to him and his delightful wife Mary Francis tell stories about their lives.
This was about three years after he sold the Sox for the second time. He was an incredible man. I have never known anyone as learned as he - not just about baseball, but about history, etymology, politics, government, literature - you name it.
I can safely say, he was the only genius I ever knew.
I only wish I could have perfect recall of the many many stories he told as he chain smoked cigarettes, put them out in the carved-out ashtray in his wooden leg, and asked me to grab him another Old-Style beer!
There was no-one like him, before or since. Anybody else know him or perhaps been affected by him?
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