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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 […]

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  Wrigley Field with Harry Caray, Steve Stone, Andre Dawson, Ryne Sandberg

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  Wrigley Field with Phil Bess

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  Seven Days Overexposed

  Chicago, Politics

  In seven short days, Chicagoans saw their greatest joy sour and their country descend into slow-rolling chaos. Shooting for this documentary began in early fall of 2016, to capture, in Guerrilla TV-style, the masses of people that we saw more and more frequently on the streets of Chicago. We started with the debauchery surrounding the Cubs winning the World Series. A week later, Mary Otoo and Lucia Ahrensdorf found themselves filming a citywide protest against the election of Donald Trump. […]

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  [Harry Caray moves to Cubs]

  Chicago, Cubs, Sports

  Press conference and interview on the day Harry Caray switched from being the voice of the White Sox to the voice of the Cubs.

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  Bartholomew “Whoops” and the Bad, Bad Ball

  Chicago, Sports, Tom Palazzolo

  A part animated, part live action short from Tom Palazzolo about Bartholomew “Whoops,” a young “Chi-cargo Cups” fan who accidentally ruins his favorite team’s attempt to make it to the World Series.

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  [Once a Star raw: Phoenix, Arizona #4]

  Once A Star, Sports

  This tape features footage of the ’69 Chicago Cubs and New York Mets teams at a cocktail party in honor of the “Dream Game ’86.” Cubs Announcer Jack Brickhouse introduces the entire Cubs roster at a cocktail party. Shot for the television special “Once A Star.”

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  [Once a Star raw: Holtzman #2]

  Once A Star, Sports

  Part of an interview of Ken Holtzman retired Major League pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles and the New York Yankees by Roger Wallenstein for the television show, “Once A Star.” In this segment of the interview Holtzman discusses his relationship with the Cubs manager, Leo Durocher, and also with what it was like to play in the majors in the mid 1960s through 1970s.