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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #17]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports, Tom Weinberg

  Bill Veeck wraps up an interview in the bleachers at Wrigley Field. Raw footage for “A Man for Any Season.”

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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #34]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  This tape features a speech given by Bill Veeck at Northeastern University in April 1985. This is a continuation from the previous tape. This footage was shot for a documentary entitled “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.”

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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #67]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports, Tom Weinberg

  Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” Last day. Veeck talks about computers and how they changed baseball, among other things.

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  [Bill Veeck at O’Leary’s #10]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  Raw footage of Bill Veeck at O’Leary’s for Bill Veeck’s Saloon. Continuation of discussion about sports and baseball. Participants are noticeably inebriated (Veeck in particular).

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  [music for Veeck: A Man For Any Season]

  Uncategorized

  Tape with just audio: Two versions of “When You’re Smiling,” a song from “The King and I,” and half of “You Look Good to Me.” Additional snippets of other songs.

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  [Bill Veeck #5 at Powell’s Bookstore]

  Bill Veeck, Sports

  Camera original footage of Bill Veeck at Powell’s Bookstore in Hyde Park.

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  [Sox #1, outside on field, opening day]

  Chicago, Sports, White Sox

  Chicago White Sox warm up before game, shot for “Inside Spring Training.”

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  Once A Star #1

  Chicago, Sports, Viewers Choice

  The first of two hour-long programs profiling former professional athletes. The show focuses on these athletes’ lives after retiring from sports, with archival footage sprinkled throughout. We get an in-depth look at these personalities, while also indirectly getting a sense of the difference between professional sports of the 50s, 60s, and 70s versus today: virtually all of the athletes work for a living. This program features “no-hit” Chicago Cub pitcher Kenny Holtzman; Cy Young Award winner Steve Stone;  first African American in the NBA, Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton; TV wrestling pioneer “Dick the Bruiser” (Afflis); all-time NFL scoring leader, kicker and quarterback George Blanda; bowling champ Carmen Salvino; Casey Stengel speaking “Stengelese;”  Clown Prince of Baseball, Max Patkin; and one-season phenomenon, pitcher Mark “The Bird” Fidrych.