[Sox #1, outside on field, opening day]
Chicago White Sox warm up before game, shot for “Inside Spring Training.”
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![[Commentary and poem by Bill Veeck #1]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/646360097_640-228x160.jpg)
[Commentary and poem by Bill Veeck #1]
Raw footage of Bill Veeck doing multiple takes of a commentary and a poem. Veeck seems to determine the general topics and trajectory of his speech and then improvises it on-camera. The first 13 minutes are takes of the commentary, and the last 4 minutes is one read-through of the poem. In the commentary, Veeck talks about the subtle differences in baseball today. He says the players don’t play as well (despite being bigger, faster, stronger, and more educated) because they don’t have the same training players used to get. Veeck values very much the apprenticeships in the minor leagues that used to be so common. They were fundamental, he thinks, because players would learn from their peers–other players who had played the majors for a decade and then moved back down–instead of managers or roving instructors. He says players today make mistakes due to their inexperience. In addition, the game has also suffered due to high player salaries. Veeck says this makes players unwilling to take risks with their “million dollar bodies.” Their attitude has changed: players act like prima donnas instead of just loving the game. The poem is called “Ode to an Agent” or “Advice to an Aging Client.” The poem mocks the aforementioned habit of players who put no heart or energy into the game in the name of business and money.
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Image Union, episode 0333
Compilation episode of Image Union featuring “Dan Sandin” by Christine de Lignieres, “Video Junkins” by Nancy Simon Harris, and “Duck and Cover.”
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Time Out, episode 106
This tape features a 1984 episode of “Time Out,” a weekly sports program that is hosted by a number of Chicago area journalists and sportscasters. This week’s commentators are Ray Sons of the Chicago Sun-Times, Kenny McReynolds, a WBMX Sportscaster and Assistant Coach for DePaul University’s Men’s Basketball team, WIND reporter Fran Spielman, and former NBA star John Mengelt. Bill Veeck appears on the show as well. On this episode, the commentators interview DePaul Freshman and basketball sensation Dallas Comegys about his experience with the team.
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Time Out, episode 129
This tape features a 1984 episode of “Time Out,” a weekly sports program that is hosted by a number of Chicago area journalists and sportscasters. This week’s commentators are award winning sports columnist John Schulian, WBMX Sportscaster and Assistant Coach for DePaul University’s Men’s Basketball team Kenny McReynolds, WIND reporter Fran Spielman, and former NBA star John Mengelt.
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[Once A Star raw: Holtzman #1]
Part one of an interview with Ken Holtzman, retired Major League pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles and the New York Yankees, for the television special, “Once A Star.” The interview, conducted by Roger Wallenstein, focuses on Holtzman’s career after baseball as an insurance administrator. Holtzman discusses how being an ex-ballplayer is sometimes a disadvantage in his career, and comments in-depth on “dumb jock syndrome.” Timecode onscreen.
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[Chicago Slices raw : Marc Smith]
Raw footage for Chicago Slices, featuring Marc Smith, founder of the Poetry Slam, at the Green Mill. Brigid Murphy interviews Smith inside the Green Mill, followed by Smith performing two poems.