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Please try again later. He was right on the first count, but wrong on the second. A double-header was scheduled between the Browns and the Detroit Tigers the next day. Veeck later insisted he got the idea from listening to the conversations of Giants manager John McGraw decades earlier when Veeck was a child. Edson was told to go to the given address in Chicago and pick up a guy called Eddie Gaedel. In , Bill Veeck was the colorful owner of the St. Please upgrade your browser.

Gaedel made a single plate appearance and was walked with four consecutive balls before being replaced by a pinch-runner at first base. Presumably, to show off their white socks. This was also the height of the Vietnam era, and Thurman was required to register with his local draft board.