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  Vintage Veeck Round 3

  Bill Veeck, Sports

  Various footage of Bill Veeck from throughout his career.

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  Time Out, episode 124

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports, Time Out

  This tape features a 1984 episode of “Time Out,” a weekly sports program that is hosted by a number of Chicago area journalists and sportscasters. This week’s commentators are Linda Kay of the Chicago Tribune, Kenny McReynolds, a WBMX Sportscaster and Assistant Coach for DePaul University’s Men’s Basketball team, WIND reporter Fran Spielman, and former NBA star John Mengelt.

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  [Bill Veeck on books]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  John Callaway and Bill Veeck sit at 57th Street Beach in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood and discuss book recommendations for summer reading. However, most of the segment is taken up by listing the books displayed in the windows of prominent bookstores, and Veeck gets little time to share his thoughts.

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  Time Out, episode 106

  Chicago, Sports, Time Out

  This tape features a 1984 episode of “Time Out,” a weekly sports program that is hosted by a number of Chicago area journalists and sportscasters. This week’s commentators are Ray Sons of the Chicago Sun-Times, Kenny McReynolds, a WBMX Sportscaster and Assistant Coach for DePaul University’s Men’s Basketball team, WIND reporter Fran Spielman, and former NBA star John Mengelt. Bill Veeck appears on the show as well. On this episode, the commentators interview DePaul Freshman and basketball sensation Dallas Comegys about his experience with the team.

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  Time Out, episode 129

  Chicago, Sports, Time Out

  This tape features a 1984 episode of “Time Out,” a weekly sports program that is hosted by a number of Chicago area journalists and sportscasters. This week’s commentators are award winning sports columnist John Schulian, 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.

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  Robyn Smith #1

  Once A Star, Sports

  An interview with Robyn Smith, the famed jockey. As the one of the first females to race horses professionally, she touches on her jockeying career and the struggles she had encountered throughout it. Smith also discusses her passion for riding, the debate over whether it is the jockey or the horse that wins the race, and the politics and biases of the horse racing world.

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  [Once A Star raw: Holtzman #1]

  Chicago, Once A Star, Sports

  Part one of an interview with Ken Holtzman, retired Major League pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles and the New York Yankees, for the television special, “Once A Star.” The interview, conducted by Roger Wallenstein, focuses on Holtzman’s career after baseball as an insurance administrator. Holtzman discusses how being an ex-ballplayer is sometimes a disadvantage in his career, and comments in-depth on “dumb jock syndrome.” Timecode onscreen.

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  [Inside Spring Training raw #23]

  Chicago, Sports, White Sox

  Raw footage of an interview with Chicago White Sox Pitcher Rich Hinton. The interview was shot for the documentary, “Inside Spring Training,” a look at the White Sox 1978 team.