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  [Bill Veeck at O’Leary’s #8]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  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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  [Bill Veeck master for Heart Association]

  Bill Veeck, Sports

  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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  [Bill Veeck #6 at Powell’s Bookstore]

  Bill Veeck, Sports

  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.

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  Commentaries: Baseball According to Bill Veeck

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  A series of commentaries on baseball and sports by Bill Veeck.

• [Veeck commentaries 2, reels 3 & 4]

  Bill Veeck, Sports, White Sox

  Raw footage of Bill Veeck commentary (with some clips from Time Out!). Veeck speaks on various issues, including: money in baseball; baseball contracts; officiating in sports (particularly baseball umpires) and the changing strike zones; and drugs in sports. The tape also include footage from several White Sox games and some archival footage of Veeck. A large portion of the second half of the tape is wild sound takes for narration, voice overs, etc.

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  [Bill Veeck interviews Marvin Miller #2]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  Marvin Miller, director of the Major League Baseball Player’s Association, is interviewed by Bill Veeck in the ballpark in Clearwater, Florida during Spring Training. Raw footage for A View From The Bleachers With Bill Veeck. Part 2 of 2.

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  View From The Bleachers

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports, Viewers Choice

  A show about the current state of affairs in baseball. Bill Veeck and author Bill Brashler focus in on the changes that increasing amounts of money have brought to baseball and its future. Interspersed with their discussion are various interviews and archival clips of baseball players and personalities. It was produced shortly after Veeck sold the Chicago White Sox and retired from active involvement with Major League Baseball.

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  [Bill Veeck off-air]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  Tape of various raw footage from the “Making it in Hollywood” documentary, Bill Veeck off-air, and WBBM news coverage. Veeck talks about a Chicago White Sox comeback and not getting enough media coverage for the Chicago White Sox.