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Baseball's first (fun) family

By Jim Caple
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- It's a dripping hot summer evening and behind the dugout of the Charleston RiverDogs, Night Train Veeck is stepping into his father's shoes. Well, not literally his father's shoes. These are so big and puffy and awkward to wear, they're more like Shrek's bedroom slippers. But in spirit, they are the shoes worn by his father, Mike Veeck, as well as by his grandfather, Bill Veeck, the legendary baseball promoters behind Wrigley's ivy walls, Eddie Gaedel, Disco Demolition Nigh ...

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