[Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #39]
Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” This tape features footage of Bill Veeck at his Hyde Park home, talking about racial integration.
Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” This tape features footage of Bill Veeck at his Hyde Park home, talking about racial integration.
Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” Bill Veeck picks out books at Kroch’s bookstore. He looks at the gardening section and books by Graham Greene and Elmore Leonard. He feels that there wasn’t one truly outstanding book over the winter, and is hopeful for a more eventful summer in reading.
Raw footage for the documentary Veeck: A Man For Any Season. This tape continues an interview with Bill Veeck at home. The tape begins in the middle of him discussing what it is like to be disfigured. He describes various public health perceptions about leprosy and cancer. Later, he talks about his “ongoing love affair” with the English language and quotes Rudyard Kipling’s “The Wolf.” The end of the tape is footage of glass mobiles hanging inside and in Veeck’s backyard.
This tape features and episode of “Time Out,” a weekly sports program that is hosted by a number of Chicago area journalists and sportscasters. This week’s commentators are Kenny McReynolds, a WBMX Sportscaster and Assistant Coach for DePaul University’s Men’s Basketball team, Rick Telander, a Chicago-based writer for Sports Illustrated, WIND reporter Fran Spielman, and broadcaster and former NBA star John Mengelt. Gary Fencik joins the group later in the tape.
Short highlight reel of Tom Weinberg’s career for his Silver Circle Award presented by the Chicago / Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
An episode of “Watch It!” featuring short segments centered around sports. Segments cover bungee jumping, Bill Veeck, the importance of neighborhood basketball games, and more.
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.