Manager Al Lopez and pitching coach Ray Berres had their eyes on Pizarro for a few years, but Milwaukee refused to deal him to the Sox. Veeck craftily got his friend Bill DeWitt of Cincinnati to swing a deal with Milwaukee, with DeWitt then shipping Pizarro to the South Side.
The first came in the later 1950s, when he lowballed his sister Dorothy; Dorothy had decided to sell her 46% of the club to Chuck, but instead sold to Bill Veeck once Chuck's insulting offer came across her desk. The second mistake was Chuck compromising his own 46% share of the White Sox - he remained the biggest shareholder in the team through 1961 - by selling out.
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