Biography"Rudie Schaffer [was a] long-time business associate of Bill Veeck in a variety of sports endeavors... Schaffer, who held positions ranging from assistant to the president to general manager to business manager, joined Veeck in baseball five different times, including two stints with the White Sox (1959-69 and 1976-81). In addition to the White Sox, Schaffer and Veeck teamed together with the Minor League Milwaukee Brewers, the Cleveland Indians (1946-50) and the St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles (1951-54). Schaffer also spent time with the Toronto Maple Leafs Minor-League baseball team in the mid 1950s, at Boston's Suffolk Downs Race Track, in professional basketball with the Baltimore Bullets and running the Cincinnati Stringers of the World Hockey Association. Schaffer last worked for ARA, a national food service, after leaving the White Sox in 1981... Schaffer was with Cleveland in 1948 when the Indians captured a World Series title, and he was involved with seven different pennant winners over his career in baseball. His signature is on the Indians' contract with Larry Doby when the first baseman broke the American League's color barrier in 1947. That contract resides in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Schaffer also was part of a famous three-person photo taken in 1976 that re-enacted a famous Revolutionary War painting. Bill Veeck dressed in the Spirit of '76 as a fife player, Paul Richards as a flag bearer and Schaffer as the drummer."--http://mlb.mlb.com/content/printer_friendly/cws/y2007/m11/d28/c2313130.jsp
