Mark The Bird Fidrych #5
Raw interview footage with Mark–the Bird–Fidrych, former pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, for the TNT special Once a Star. Topics include his farm, family, marriage, and children.
Raw interview footage with Mark–the Bird–Fidrych, former pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, for the TNT special Once a Star. Topics include his farm, family, marriage, and children.
WOMEN IN BASEBALL CLINIC at Comiskey Park. Interviews with staff and participants in a baseball clinic designed to encourage female involvement in baseball. White Sox 3rd base Coach demonstrates hand signs of previous season. Tips on batting from the batting Coach.
This tape features a 1985 episode of “Time Out,” a weekly sports program that was hosted by a number of Chicago area journalists and sportscasters. This week’s commentators are Sports Illustrated correspondent Rick Telander, 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.
Raw footage of Bill Veeck in the bleachers at Wrigley Field shot for “Veeck: A Man for Any Season.” Veeck tells the story of constructing the bleachers and the scoreboard, and installing the ivy in Wrigley Field.
Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” At Bregstone’s, Bill Veeck looks at and selects materials for mobiles.
Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” This tape continues the interview with Bill Veeck at his home in Hyde Park. Money and business are discussed.
Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” In this tape, Bill Veeck sits on a park bench and talks about baseball clinics, the story behind an odd photograph, Illinois Masonic, patience, and Al Capone.
Raw footage of Bill Veeck at O’Leary’s for Bill Veeck’s Saloon. Continuation of inebriated conversation about sports.