[N. Theknow]

One of my fondest memories of the Old Perfesser was when Bill Veeck had fireworks installed in the scoreboard at the old Comiskey Park in Chicago and they were set off whenever a White Sox player hit a homerun.

I forget who the player, John Blanchard seems to ring a bell, was on the Yankees that hit a homerun and Casey had the players on the bench come out and run around the on deck circle and home plate with sparklers in their hands.

In the National League, The St. Louis Cardinals in Sportsman's Park had a large A-B emblem with the eagle in it that would light up and the eagle would flap its wings whenever one of the Cardinals would hit a hoer. A redbird swinging a bat would hit a large neon ball and it would go across the scoreboard and light up another neon ball with the words "It's A Hit!" whenever they would even get a single.

Casey also found a sparrow in the dugout one day when they were playing on the road and put it under his cap before going to the mound to have a little talk with Whitey Ford. On his way back to the dugout someone that had been heckling him all day gave him the raspberry and Casey tipped his cap and the bird flew out. The guy was so stunned he never said another word for the rest of the game.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Casey and Bill Veeck would be quite a pair. You probably couldn't get away with some of the stuff they did in these PC days. Can you imagine the animal rights groups going nuts over the sparrow?

[Mr. Mojo]

Casey had the players on the bench come out and run around the on deck circle and home plate with sparklers in their hands.

LOL....classic. They'd have a lot of fun with that on Sportcenter these days. ....Although it probably would've spaked a major brawl on the field, players delicate emotions being what they are today.