before the second game got underway , the press agreed that the " midget-in-a-cake " appearance had not been up to veeck 's usual promotional standard .. This sentence is hard to understand. A simpler version with equivalent meaning is the following:
before the second game got underway , the press agreed that the &quot; midget-in-a-cake &quot; appearance had not been up to Veeck &apos;s usual promotional standard .