![[Once a Star raw : Floyd Patterson #10]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/644357739_640-228x160.jpg)
This tape features raw footage of an interview with boxing legend Floyd Patterson (1935-2006) at a boxing arena in Atlantic City. Taped for the 1985 television series “Once A Star.” Patterson talks about his legendary boxing career and his schooling in Brooklyn, New York.
![[Once a Star raw: NBA Legends #3 Dallas]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/657818604_640-228x160.jpg)
Raw footage for the 1986 television special “Once a Star.” Footage from the NBA Legends basketball game during the 1986 All-Star weekend. Cazzie Russell (1944-) is interviewed.
![[Once a Star raw: Bowie Kuhn in NYC #2]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/657820353_640-228x160.jpg)
This tape contains the continuation of an interview with former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn (1926-2007), shot for the 1986 television special “Once A Star.”
The first of two hour-long programs profiling former professional athletes. The show focuses on these athletes’ lives after retiring from sports, with archival footage sprinkled throughout. We get an in-depth look at these personalities, while also indirectly getting a sense of the difference between professional sports of the 50s, 60s, and 70s versus today: virtually all of the athletes work for a living. This program features “no-hit” Chicago Cub pitcher Kenny Holtzman; Cy Young Award winner Steve Stone; first African American in the NBA, Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton; TV wrestling pioneer “Dick the Bruiser” (Afflis); all-time NFL scoring leader, kicker and quarterback George Blanda; bowling champ Carmen Salvino; Casey Stengel speaking “Stengelese;” Clown Prince of Baseball, Max Patkin; and one-season phenomenon, pitcher Mark “The Bird” Fidrych.
![[George Blanda raw #3]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/657877176_640-228x160.jpg)
Part 3 of 4 of an interview with former NFL player George Blanda, shot for the series “Once a Star.”
![[Once a Star raw : Floyd Patterson #11]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/644352737_640-228x160.jpg)
This tape features raw footage of an interview with boxing legend Floyd Patterson (1935-2006) taped for the 1985 television series “Once A Star.” Patterson talks about keeping in shape after retirement and having bigger hands than Muhammad Ali. Shot in Atlantic City, NJ.
![[Once a Star raw: NBA Legends #4 Dallas]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/657934979_640-228x160.jpg)
Raw footage for the 1986 television special “Once a Star.” Shot during the 1986 NBA All Star weekend. This tape is a continuation of an interview with Cazzie Russell (1944-) before the game.
![[Once a Star raw: Bowie Kuhn in NYC #3]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/657861442_640-228x160.jpg)
This tape contains the continuation of an interview with former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn (1926-2007), shot for the 1986 television special “Once A Star.”