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  Bowie Kuhn in NYC #6

  Sports

  00:00 The continuation of an interview with former baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn. 00:30 Kuhn discusses the question “What is the future of Wrigley Field?” The Cubs have been resistant to installing lights and playing night games. Kuhn discusses the possibility of building a second park, but does not think it’s very likely. 02:36 Tom Weinberg suggests that baseball has gotten more “plastic.” Kuhn disagrees. He thinks the game itself is still very natural, even if there are more players in […]

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  Mark The Bird Fidrych #5

  Sports

  Raw interview footage with Mark–the Bird–Fidrych, former pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, for the TNT special Once a Star. Topics include his farm, family, marriage, and children.

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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #7]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  Raw footage of Bill Veeck for “Veeck: A Man for Any Season.”

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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #28]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” This tape features footage of the basketball court and arena at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, during a basketball tournament. The teams playing are Cahokia and Flossmoor.

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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #55]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man for Any Season.” This tape features some of Bill Veeck’s friends interviewed at Wrigley Field, including Steve Trout, Vince Lloyd, Bob Logan, Harry Caray, and Lou Boudreau.

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  [Bill Veeck at O’Leary’s #8]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  Raw footage of Bill Veeck at O’Leary’s for Bill Veeck’s Saloon. It is mostly running commentary about a basketball game, watching TV, and several takes of Veeck discussing “peripatetic” coaches, Lou Saban, and jockeys.

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  My Daddy

  Chicago, Sports

  This is a short clip of Bill Veeck speaking about his father, whom he affectionately calls “My Daddy.” This segment was shot for the documentary “Veeck: A Man for Any Season.” Timecode onscreen.

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  [The 90s raw: Bits And Pieces of Skip’s World]

  Black, Communities, GDDF, Latinx, NHPRC-2, Skip Blumberg, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s shot by Skip Blumberg. A variety of everyday scenes are pictured: African American at-risk youth read poems predicting the state of affairs in the 1990s. A woman feeds squirrels on a park bench in England. Most of the video is from a baseball game between the Cuban national team and the Indians [?] in Granada, Nicaragua.