Bill Veeck may not be such a familiar name to most people, but little do they know that he changed the course of sporting event history by one simple promotion. In 1960, while owning the Chicago White Sox, Veeck attempted to attract the public by introducing society's first "exploding scoreboard". For every time an individual would score a home run for the white sox, fire works would shoot out of the board for spectators to chew and enjoy in celebration of the feet. This in itself has inspired almost every present day sporting event including baseball, basketball, football games, and even the Olympics. For example I recently went to a Cleveland Cavaliers game and during the process of the game pyro effects would go off and the crowd would go crazy. As silly as this may sound, this markets to many fans and quite frankly change the way we watch athletics today. On top of it all, this was only one of many brilliant ideas this intelligent man came up with. FOr that I regard him as simply one of Amer