Veeck

ProPublica’s 2021 article traced how owners, starting with the late baseball showman Bill Veeck decades ago, persuaded the IRS to accept a “gimmick” that allows owners to take massive depreciation write-offs.

Bill Veeck, a scrappy, showmanship-savvy Major League Baseball impresario who survived grave injuries as a Marine during World War II, would make a hard act for any child to follow.

That would be Mike Veeck, the subject of the peppy new documentary “The Saint of Second Chances.”

There is even some overlap with “The Saint”: one section touches on Bill Veeck’s signing of the legend Satchel Paige, history’s oldest M.L.B. rookie.

Veeck convinced the New York Giants to join his move west, too.