This tape features the pilot for “Bill Veeck’s Saloon,” shot at O’Sullivan’s, at 495 N Milwaukee, Chicago, IL. Veeck speaks with a number of sports journalists and friends about the inflation of players’ salaries in modern day baseball and the re-negotiations of baseball contracts. It is quite an interesting look at the inner workings of the game.
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Raw footage of Bill Veeck in the Wrigley Field bleachers shot for “Veeck: A Man for Any Season.” Veeck continues the story of installing the ivy in Wrigley Field, and also tells of his design and construction of the yardarm above the scoreboard, the screens on the foul poles, and redesigning uniforms for players in the 1930s.
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Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” At Bregstone’s, Bill Veeck looks at and selects materials for mobiles.
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Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man for Any Season.” This tape continues an interview with Veeck at his Hyde Park home. The subjects are day games, the particulars of Veeck’s family life and his parenting, and where finds happiness (gardening, books, people).
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Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” This tape features footage of a Chicago Sports Hall of Fame awards ceremony, where Veeck is being inducted. His acceptance speech is on this tape.
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Raw footage of Bill Veeck at O’Leary’s for Bill Veeck’s Saloon. It is mostly running commentary about a basketball game, watching TV, and several takes of Veeck discussing “peripatetic” coaches, Lou Saban, and jockeys.
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Various footage from The Bill Veeck Show, Bill Veeck’s Front Office, the documentary Bill Veeck: A Man For Any Season, raw footage from interviews, and, at the end of the tape, about five minutes of the movie review show “Sneak Preview” (1984).
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Footage of Bill Veeck and Mike Leiderman in Powell’s Book Store in Hyde Park, March 13, 1981. They discuss Charles van Loan, Grantland Rice, Larry Ritter, and Veeck’s own book.