Bill Stamets Collection > SERIES I: Films by Bill Stamets > Subseries II: Footage

Sox Cubs Sting Swim

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Come on! You want some? All right! We have a long, long program.

I won't read all, but just to give you some information on how the mayor and the council feel about this great deal, let me just read a paragraph or two for you.

And a 611 winning percentage over the course of the last year.

Which the American League West division, on behalf of I.

Harold Washington, mayor of the city of Chicago, and all 50 other women in the city of Chicago, Take pride! All of our citizens and all fans everywhere in Chicago, write something.

Take a shower when you win the pennant! Thank you very much, your honor.

These guys need champagne like Steve Carlton needs a voice coach.

Take a look at the jackets they're wearing.

Who really made our dreams come true.

This organization.

We got our work cut out for us the next week and then the week after that.

I didn't bring my music or I would have sung I'm Just Wild About Harry.

My clip on the door today.

Never did I dream.

I was a little boy in the White Sox.

I'm a little girl.

The other fellas have been on me because.

Was washed up.

Daddy.

Daddy.

Hi Jennifer.

Hey Daddy.

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Identifier
F.2005-08-0157
Date Of Production
1983 – 1984
Abstract
Loosely assembled footage captures the following: Chicago White Sox fans rally against the Baltimore Orioles in Daley Center Plaza on October 3, 1983, Mayor Harold Washington joins the White Sox team on stage and awards a bottle of champagne to manager Tony La Russa, White Sox co-owner Jerry Reinsdorf furnishes Washington with a team jacket, and rookie player Ron Kittle swings a bat into an Oriole-shaped pinata filled with baseballs; Chicago Sting fans celebrate winning the North American Soccer League Championship in Daley Center Plaza on October 9, 1984, Mayor Harold Washington delivers a speech, accepts a team jacket from Sting owner Lee Stern, and poses for photographs with Stern, coach Willy Roy, forward Karl-Heinz Granitza, and team mascot Stanley Sting; City workers use Chicago Fire Department snorkels and a city cherry picker truck to affix a 12 x 6 foot, 30-pound Chicago Cubs cap on top of Picasso’s sculpture in Daley Center Plaza at the end of September 1984; World champion swimmer Benson Huggard applies cold-protectant grease to his skin and attempts to swim 10 miles through Lake Michigan with his legs tied for a hunger fundraiser on September 30, 1984.
Format
Super 8
Extent
250 feet
Color
Color
Sound
Mag Stripe
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Language Of Materials
English
Element
Reversal Positives
Subject
Baseball
Chicago Cubs (Baseball team)
Chicago White Sox (Baseball team)
Government officials
Lake Michigan
Marching bands
Politicians
Swimming
Preservation Sponsor

Related Collections
Subseries II: Footage


Related Places
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Loop

Main Credits
Stamets, Bill (is filmmaker)

Participants And Performers
Washington, Harold (is participant)
Reinsdorf, Jerry M. (is participant)
Kittle, Ronald D. (is participant)
Stern, Lee B. (is participant)
Granitza, Karl-Heinz (is participant)
Roy, Willy (is participant)

 
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