It's finally here. Baseball is back, and today it the home opener for the Colorado Rockies. In honor of this momentous event, I am featuring a photograph of Comiskey Park that I took back in 1980, along with an image of Bill Veeck that was on the ticket stub of the game honoring his contributions to baseball. By 1980, Veeck could no longer afford to own the Chicago White Sox, and hoped to sell the team to Eddie DeBartalo, who was planning to let Veeck continue to run the team. However, the major league baseball owners, who hated Veeck because of his belief that baseball should be fun, disapproved the sale - I think on the grounds that DeBartalo was Italian. Veeck was forced to sell the team to Jerry Reinsdorf, who promptly stated that "from now on we are going to run a class operation." After Veeck heard that, he became a Cubs fan, finishing his life watching the team that his father once ran and where he worked as a young man. Happy Opening Day People!
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