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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.
Career Counciling for Women in the Arts: Ann Kemp and Sherrie Cutler

Pat Lehman

Two interviews conducted as part of the series “Career Counciling for Women in the Arts.” This tape features TV news cinematographer and producer Ann Kemp and architect/designer Sherrie Cutler.
[Sherrie Cutler interview]

Pat Lehman

Footage filmed on a beach, followed by an interview with architecture Sherrie Stephens Cutler, filmed for the series “Career Counciling for Women in the Arts.”
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 […]
For Fathers Day: Bill Veeck on his Daddy

Bill Veeck, Blog, Cubs, Tom Weinberg

“He was the nicest man I’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 held the potential to teach him something. Famous for his wild and […]
Opening Day: Bill Veeck’s Signs of Spring

Bill Veeck, Blog

“I have discovered in 20 years of moving around 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 […]
Who was Bill Veeck’s greatest hero?

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BABE RUTH… Ask people to name five baseball players. Most will include “Babe Ruth,” even though his prime was 80 or 90 years ago and he died in 1948, 67 years ago this week. Many consider George Herman Ruth Jr. one of the greatest icons not only in baseball, but in all of American history. He was the most dominant player ever. In the 1922 season, he hit 54 home runs. No other player hit more than 19 and only […]