If there are 10 or 200 fans see a baseball game, as if they are 50 or 60 thousand, according to what they say, everyone seems to be better managers or leaders than the two in charge of that mission in the field. without referring to the thousands who watch the games on television, and listen on the radio. that's why the idea of ​​Bill Veeck (Owner of the San Luis Browns) that the fans directed his team was great and also successful.

It happened on the night of Friday, August 24, 1951, when the Philadelphia Athletics (at the time) visited the Carmelites, before 3,925 fans, who did not care that their team had the worst record of both 37 leagues and 81 lost, they continued attending the field of play.

When the fans, because that's what the managers were for, they made the line-up through some forms that they filled with the nine names, they ordered to include part of their bench players, one of them the receiver Sherman Lollar and the first baseman Hank Arft, in It was the regular time, in addition to a pitcher who did not play that day to throw Ned Garver.

During the game they must use two posters they gave them, one with red letters that said "NO" and the other with black letters that read "YES". They were also asked in writing.

In the first inning, the Athletics punished Garver with five hits and three runs, but the "no" vote kept the man in the game when they asked if he was out.

In the closing of the first one, Lollar, the receiver imposed by the conclave, got into rally of three races with single, and in the third he won the tie with a homer. He had single, double, home run, three runs scored and one run in four innings.

Garver allowed only two hits after his initial anguish, when he saw so many "NO" signs. and he threw the whole game and won it 5 to 3.

Now why did Veeck come up with that idea? He had originally hired two fans, Charles E Hughes and Clark Mitze, to serve as coaches for that game, but the president of the American League did not allow it.

So without asking permission, he then arranged for all the fans to lead, while the real manager Zack Taylor, watched the game from a box near the Carmelite dogout and accompanied by Hughes and Mitze.

After the victory Bill Veeck wanted to continue with his managerial public, but that was also forbidden. The Carmelites were last with a record of 52-102.

After finishing the game, the last of the season Veeck commented to the reporters "The experience of the public manager had record of a thousand points, with a victory in a game, that is to say, that of having continued with that collegiate direction we would all games, and instead of finishing 52-102, we would have finished with a record of 73-81 ..... ".