[Once a Star raw: Bowie Kuhn in NYC #2]
This tape contains the continuation of an interview with former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn (1926-2007), shot for the 1986 television special “Once A Star.”
This tape contains the continuation of an interview with former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn (1926-2007), shot for the 1986 television special “Once A Star.”
Raw footage for “Once a Star.” Interview with Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, one of the first black players in the NBA and former Harlem Globetrotter.
LUNCH WITH…JACK BRICKHOUSE: Hall of Fame WGN-TV broadcaster, voice of the Chicago Cubs and Sox. Interviewed by Tom Weinberg at the 410 Club in the Wrigley Building. Talks about Minnie Minoso and other characters in sports and broadcasting that he has encountered in his career. They step out onto Michigan Ave. just north of the Chicago River. The street has been rededicated as “Jack Brickhouse Way.”
Raw footage of Bill Veeck being interviewed in his workroom at home. Raw footage for “A Man for Any Season.”
This tape contains b-roll footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” In this video, Veeck continues to watch a University of Illinois men’s basketball game in Champaign, IL.
This tape features footage of a speech by Bill Veeck at Northeastern Illinois University in April 1985. This footage was shot for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” This is the fourth tape of the lecture hall footage, and Veeck has moved on to Q&A.
Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” In this tape, Bill Veeck sits on a park bench and talks about Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, Tipp O’Neill, Nat King Cole, the Tribune Company, Harry Caray, and Mike Royko.
Raw footage of Bill Veeck at O’Leary’s for Bill Veeck’s Saloon. Producer Tom Weinberg and Veeck continue inebriated conversation, now mostly just about the footage already shot.