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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #24]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  This tape features raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” In this video, Veeck is interviewed in Assembly Hall at the Illinois high school basketball championship tournament in Champaign.

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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #58]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” In this tape, Bill Veeck and John Mengelt continue to talk about the business of baseball at Lake Michigan, with the Chicago skyline in the background.

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  The Best of Bill Veeck

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  This video features a compilation of baseball hall of famer Bill Veeck in a number of different conversations and interviews. Highlights include his commentaries on “Time Out!,” a Chicago sports television show that aired in the early ’80s, his interviews with Reggie Jackson, Rick Sutcliffe, and Ted Turner, interviews of Veeck himself in Wrigley Field and displaying his wonderful, colorful, and wise commentary about sports and life.

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  [Baseball writers dinner]

  Sports

  This is low quality (dark, grainy) video of the baseball writers’ dinner, taken in 1985. Various baseball personages (writers, players) are being introduced as they take their place at the dais. There is lots of crowd noise and applause, and a piano playing in the background.

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  [Veeck in the garden #1]

  Bill Veeck, Sports

  Raw footage of Bill Veeck at work in his garden at home in the spring of 1985, shot for the documentary “Veeck: A Man for Any Season.” Although Veeck appears to be talking to someone off camera, the sound is not audible.

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  [Bill Veeck #2 at O’Sullivans]

  Bill Veeck, Sports

  Raw footage of sports commentary by Bill Veeck in O’Sullivan’s bar.

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  [Veeck Pix #1]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Sports, Tom Weinberg

  Stills shot for “Veeck: A Man for Any Season.”

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  Harold Washington spots

  Chicago Politics, Harold Washington

  A collection of Harold Washington Chicago Mayoral Campaign ads.