These events would have been plainly visible to a gaggle of sportswriters all eager for some angle to use in spicing up their columns .
Not one of sportswriters saw fit to report what Bill Veeck later claimed to have witnessed that day .
These events would have been plainly visible to a gaggle of sportswriters all eager for some angle to use in spicing up their columns , but not one of them saw fit to report what Bill Veeck later claimed to have witnessed that day .