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Remembering Mary Frances Veeck, an ambassador for baseball and sounding board for the former Chicago White Sox owner

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Bill Veeck, right, and his wife, Mary Frances, on April 9, 1960, to promote the launch of their TV show. (Al Phillips/Chicago Tribune, Al Phillips/Chicago Tribune)

Mary Frances Veeck was recalling the night in 1979 that her husband, former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck, returned from a particularly rough night at Comiskey Park. An anti-disco promotion with a local rock station and radio personality Steve Dahl had gone awry, with thousands of fans invading the field and forcing the forfeiture of the second game of a...


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