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rickiep00h posted:Roughly 100 pages left, I'm gonna try to finish it all before heading out of town this weekend. How's everyone else doing? I just finished, actually. Boy, Bill Veeck could dismantle someone with a few well-chosen words. What'd he call Weiss and Webb? A couple pitchers of ice water sitting on a conference table?  And Frick was still Commissioner when this was published. Awesome. Bet that caused some pearls to be clutched.Anime Reference posted:I'm pretty sure he would've thrived in the free agent era. He would've fleeced everybody. I do wonder if he would've changed his minds about bonuses. He was forward-thinking in a lot of ways but I thought he was way off base there, I mean, how does giving a signing bonus to a high schooler "siphon money out of the game" any more than a big leaguer's salary? What's the difference? I guess he believed that independent minor league teams needed to sell players to survive. Did some clubs still not own their own MILB teams in the 50's? I thought Branch Rickey invented the farm system in like, the 1930s. It's interesting to imagine an alternate timeline where the minors are still independent. I think the bonuses would be just as big, since the minors teams would be competing to sign prospects to sell to MLB.
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