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Pirate Tom Willis had no trouble pitching infront of
the rowdy Chicago crowd. |
Close, But No Bill Veeck April 2008 |
| Angels and Angel Gm and owner Matt Ledford
comes into the town for the now popular "Tomato Series."
However, in being like Bill Veeck, Zuber has also had made mistakes
and had ideas backfire on him. In an attempt to draw more women to
the stadiums Zuber tested growing rose bushes on the outfield wall
in some minor league parks and hoped that all would work out and later
change the outfield walls to a rose garden. However that attempt failed
as most outfielders would stop tracking down a fly ball once they
reached the warning track. Another failed attempt was when he tried
to copy the glowing hockey puck idea by having glowing baseballs for
fans that had trouble following the play at home watching on tv. The
hockey pucks would show a blue streak for a pass and a red streak
for a shot, so in following that, different pitches had different
colour. Red was for a fastball, blue for changeup, green a curve,
orange for slider, yellow for sinker, purple for cutter, black for
knuckleball, brown for split finger, silver for a screwball, and also
different colours for different hits by the batter. The idea was thrown
out when too many fans got confused and when too many Canadian hockey
fans made fun of the idea. Box Score |
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