Notice bibliographique
Résumé
Paul Dickson. Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick. New York: Walker and Company, 2012. 366 pp. Cloth, $28. For Bill Veeck, legendary Hall-of-Fame club owner, the epitome of pleasure was hoisting beer and singing 'Take Me Out to Ball Game' and in his excellent and accessible biography of Veeck, Paul Dickson reveals story behind what made Veeck such standout character and, as noted on his plaque in Cooperstown, a champion of little guy. Employing plethora of diverse primary and secondary sources, including interviews with Veeck family members and close associates, Dickson renders an engaging portrait of man who was more than just facilitator of Eddie Gaedel, Larry Doby, and Comiskey Park's exploding scoreboard. An unapologetic liberal who was blind to color of his fellow man's skin, Veeck learned at an early age that catering to all fans who ultimately provided baseball team's revenue was key component to any franchise's success. Creative marketing conflated with entertainment value became Veeck's mantra, and when players on field delivered by padding win column with more and more victories, resulting symbiosis of success benefited fans, players, and front office. Dickson covers full scope of Veeck's life, but details and minutiae author draws into text are what make book both enjoyable and informative. Salient among book's highlights are Dickson's probing of what Jesse Butler of Cleveland Call and Post cited as Veeck's attack on racial discrimination and segregation in this country by giving Negroes chance to show their real ability as major leaguers (173). To this end, Dickson not only chronicles Veeck's integrating of American League in 1947 with addition of Larry Doby to Cleveland Indians roster but defends Veeck by noting Doby signing as seminal moment not just for baseball but as part of broader but still inchoate civil rights movement. Veeck endeavored to purchase Philadelphia Phillies four years earlier with designs on revamping roster with mostly black players, plot disputed by group of Society for American Baseball Research authors in late 1990s. But Dickson goes to great lengths (in ten-page appendix) to side with Veeck, who, at time of Philadelphia intrigue, was owner of American Association's Milwaukee Brewers and in partnership with Harlem Globetrotters owner Abe Saperstein. The success of basketball team provided Veeck with glimpse of what might have been achievable by an all-black baseball team on major-league diamond. Serving on front lines in Bougainville during World War II, Veeck endured many maladies, worst of which was foot injury that eventually resulted in amputation of his right leg. Here, Dickson's work shines with information he has culled from many sources, including National Archives, to explain significant discrepancy in government's report of Veeck's discharge (103). The military claimed preexisting condition was genesis of Veeck's woes, but Dickson marshals his findings to show that Veeck, man whose physical limitations prior to enlistment were few in spite of his proclivity for liquor and cigarettes, had truly become yet another casualty of combat. Crowning glory on diamond came for Veeck in 1948 when his Indians won American League pennant and World Series, although other AL team owners were rankled by Veeck's signing of Satchel Paige that season. …
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Prédiction machine sur la base complète
Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Le volet Gemma est une étiquette directe du modèle pour chaque travail de la base, lue sur la notice réduite au titre. Le volet Codex est un classifieur appris des 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et calibré sur les taux pondérés de l'échantillon; les champs sans appui suffisant ne portent aucun appel Codex. Le mode candidate est l'union des deux volets; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont pas des étiquettes humaines.
Scores du classifieur distillé par catégorie (deux têtes)
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,000 | 0,001 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,001 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,001 | 0,001 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,002 | 0,000 |
| Communication savante | 0,004 | 0,002 |
| Science ouverte | 0,001 | 0,002 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,001 | 0,002 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,396 | 0,179 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
machine, non validéePrédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule source (Gemma direct ou Codex distillé), pas un consensus.
Le détail, modèle par modèle et score par score, se trouve en fin de page sous « Comment cette classification a été obtenue ».