00:00 Title card and count-in. 00:33 Footage of Bill Veeck on various programs, while Roger Wallenstein narrates. 01:11 Bill Veeck on left-handers. Footage from September 1984. Veeck talks about how left-handers are a minority, and the right-handers have created arbitrary rules that left-handers can’t play third base, shortstop, or catcher. “Left-handers of the world arise! You have nothing to lose but your worthless rights.” 0… Continue reading →
…five decades in the larceny of athletics, and playing games and enjoying every second of it.” 2:29 “Bill Veeck’s Saloon.” 2:53 Veeck, producer Tom Weinberg, and Nick Kladis sitting at the bar. Veeck to Kladis, “Don’t you think athletes are different?” Kladis: “They are no fun any more…” 3:54 They discuss agents and Mark McGwire. 4:40 Waldo at the bar where Weinberg was. They’re dis… Continue reading →
00:00 Color bars. 01:24 Bill Veeck sits in O’Sullivan’s saloon and discusses the question of “who are the best athletes?” Veeck says it’s jockeys. Women jockeys especially. 03:39 Veeck talks about “who are the best athletes?” Take two. 06:50 Veeck sits at the bar in the saloon and introduces himself and the show. 08:30 Veeck introduces himself and the show. Take two. 09:09 Veeck introduces himself and th… Continue reading →
…ales, and claims this means that unmarried kids of the same age feel like they should also be having sex. 00:01 Veeck leading into a commercial break. 00:30 Open to round table with Bill Veeck, Dr. Alfred Flarsheim, Andrea Tyree, and Frank Wallace. They are discussing Flarsheim’s book “Sex and the College Student.” 1:30 Veeckl asks Flarsheim what the most important change has been for college students. Flarsheim responds with a… Continue reading →
00:18 Title card, Baseball Achievement Awards on Good Morning America. 00:27 David Hartman introduces Veeck–it is his last day as president of the Chicago White Sox. 1:17 Veeck, responding to Hartman’s question about leaving: “One has mixed emotions. You are pleased because it is only fair to White Sox fans. We should stop playing as a farm team for other major league teams…” 2:11 The White Sox are troubled by the c… Continue reading →
00:23 Opening title: “Bill Veeck’s Front Office.” 00:36 Veeck is seated at a desk, talking on the phone. He finishes the phone call and walks to the front of the desk, lit cigarette in hand, introduces himself, and explains the purpose of the show. He goes on to explain his authority to speak about baseball, highlighting his history with the sport as a groundskeeper, ticket salesman, and owner. 02:10 Veeck goes over the daily s… Continue reading →
…d a ballpark that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.” —Bill Veeck It’s opening day at Wrigley Field and the Cubs will play the first game of their 100th season at Wrigley. To celebrate we have a video of legendary baseball owner Bill Veeck in the stands at Wrigley on opening day 1985. As a fan and an owner Bill Veeck offered a view of baseball which was ro… Continue reading →
Bill Veeck, Blog, Cubs, Tom Weinberg
…’ve ever met. I guess that’s going out of style talking about your parents that way but, he was.” –Bill Veeck When legendary ball club owner, Bill Veeck Jr., was being posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991, his wife Mary Frances spoke of some of Veeck’s professional commandments. Among them, “in your hiring be color-blind, gender-blind, age-and-experience blind.” For Veeck, everyone… Continue reading →