Freeze Frame: Baseball, Briefcases, and Bombshelters
“Freeze Frame,” a show sponsored by the Illinois Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Episode #2: Baseball, Briefcases and Bombshelters.
“Freeze Frame,” a show sponsored by the Illinois Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Episode #2: Baseball, Briefcases and Bombshelters.
This tape features of a boxing match in Atlantic City, shot for the 1986 series “Once a Star.” One of the fighters is Tracy Harris Patterson, son of boxing legend Floyd Patterson (1935-2006), who is also Tracy’s coach.
Raw interview footage with Mark–the Bird–Fidrych, former pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, for the TNT special Once a Star. Includes footage of him revealing for the first time publicly that he received arthroscopic surgery for a shoulder injury.
WOMEN IN BASEBALL CLINIC at Comiskey Park. Interviews with staff and participants in a baseball clinic designed to encourage female involvement in baseball. White Sox 3rd base Coach demonstrates hand signs of previous season. Tips on batting from the batting Coach.
Raw tape from Bill Veeck’s Saloon pilot at O’Sullivan’s bar. Commentaries (on jockeys and other stuff) plus conversations.
This tape features a 1984 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 John Schulian of the Chicago Sun-Times, Kenny McReynolds, a WBMX Sportscaster and Assistant Coach for DePaul University’s Men’s Basketball team, WIND reporter Fran Spielman, and John Mengelt, broadcaster and NBA veteran.
B-roll of Robyn Smith walking from the horse stables of a racetrack onto the track itself and back to the stables.