Veeck

Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck also attempted to purchase Nagashima’s contract in 1968 but also was thwarted by Shoriki.

It all feels like something conjured from the wildest dreams of the late Bill Veeck’s imagination found a home, in a good way.

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.”