Biography

Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1991.

Was a fanatical reader and gardner.

Was nominated to be President of the American Football League in the mid-sixties (didn't get job).

Bought the Chicago White Sox for a second go round 1976-1980. He was responsible for reviving fan interest, particularly with 1977's edition, dubbed "the South Side Hit Men". Sold team in 1981.

Bought the Chicago White Sox in 1959, the year in which they won the American League flag for the first time since 1919. In 1960 introduced baseball's first interactive score board. It would discharge a great display of lights, music and fireworks when a home team player would hit a home run. Sold White Sox in 1961, due to poor health.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

To compare baseball with other team games is to say the Hope Diamond is a nice chunk of carbon. The endless variety of physical and mental skills demanded by baseball is both uncomparable and incomparable.

I have discovered, in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.