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Bill and Mike Veeck and “The Saint of Second Chances”

Bill Veeck, Blog, Chicago, Cubs, Sports, White Sox

Bill Veeck and Media Burn founder Tom Weinberg at the White Sox’s spring training in 1978. This week saw the release of The Saint of Second Chances on Netflix, the new documentary from acclaimed filmmakers Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor) and Jeff Malmberg (Marwencol). The film is a lively portrait of Mike Veeck, son of Chicago royalty Bill Veeck (1914-1986), who inherited his father’s passion for baseball and for the ballyhoo and PT Barnum-esque stunts that endeared his teams to their […]
South Side Hit Men

Sports

This is a short video of Chicago White Sox highlights, especially home runs. There are also shots of the exploding scoreboard at Comiskey Park and of then-owner Bill Veeck.
[Hang Gliding / Baseball Game / Mahadeva Ashram]

CLIR, Dean and Dudley Evenson, Guerrilla Television

Footage of the desert and of hang gliding in the desert, along with brief footage of a college baseball game and a local news report about the Mahadeva Ashram in Tucson, Arizona.
Wrigley Field with Harry Caray, Steve Stone, Andre Dawson, Ryne Sandberg

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Wrigley Field with Phil Bess

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Happy Birthday Bill Veeck, Renaissance Man

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This Sunday, February 9th, would be the 106th birthday of one of sports, Chicago’s and our personal heroes, Bill Veeck (1914-1986). The Media Burn Archive has close to 300 videos about and with the baseball Hall of Famer who owned baseball teams in Milwaukee, Cleveland, St. Louis and Chicago (twice). But his life and wisdom went far beyond sports. He wrote five books, had his own radio and TV shows for 40 years and did thousands of speaking engagements. Like many […]
Bulls-Sox Underground Show

Chicago, Sports, White Sox

Interview with Jerry Reinsdorf.
Jimmy Piersall, 1929-2017

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Jimmy Piersall died last weekend. He was 87. He was a great outfielder, one of the best I ever saw. But, the thing that made him so well-known is that he was “a character.” Once he ran around the bases backwards. Once he threw a ball at the scoreboard. He was the first bipolar person (manic-depressive, then) in sports to be publicly labeled. He did it himself by writing a remarkable book, Fear Strikes Out., which In 1957, became a […]