[Bill Veeck #4 at Powell’s Bookstore]

Raw footage of Bill Veeck at Powell's Bookstore in Hyde Park with Mike Leiderman.

00:00Copy video clip URL Bars.

00:37Copy video clip URL Bill Veeck sits in Powell’s Bookstore in Hyde Park, Chicago, IL. He talks to Mike Leiderman for his show.

02:49Copy video clip URL Bill Veeck begins to introduce Mike Leiderman again.

04:20Copy video clip URL Veeck introduces Mike Leiderman and Powell’s bookstore. They discuss how Bill’s real love is reading and browsing bookstores. They discuss books and the plots of their favorite books.

08:10Copy video clip URL Veeck discusses the origin of court tennis. He doesn’t consider it a very interesting game.

13:30Copy video clip URL They start their conversation of sports short stories again. They are a dying art form because there are no longer magazines that will buy them. They discuss Charles Van Loan, a sportswriter who also wrote short stories. He’s a “sports O. Henry.”

20:12Copy video clip URL End of tape.

 

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