May 4, 20187 yr Folks: If you haven't seen this show on NBC Sports Chicago when it comes on again you need to. I was absolutely floored by the fact that somehow they found the actual TV broadcast footage from Bill's 33rd home run at home against Milwaukee on September 30, 1971 to win the A.L. title. It had to have come from the channel 2 news originally because the graphics on the video (and they were from that time period) said, "White Sox Highlights, Courtesy WFLD-TV, Brent Musburger Reporting." Brent of course was working for channel 2 at that time. For that footage to have survived is unbelievable. No nat sound from Harry Caray but still worth seeing the show just for that one clip. They did have other TV footage of Bill playing with the Sox as well. Just incredible. I remember to this day walking home from Brother Rice high school listening to the end of that game on my radio and hearing Harry say that Bill got the record. Also Chuck Garfien just released a podcast with Bill this morning on the 50th anniversary of his White Sox debut. The audio highlight of Bill with Harry doing play by play in 1973 at Kansas City came from my library. NBC Sports Chicago contacted me yesterday and I was happy to send it along to them. That was a nice discussion with Bill as well for any interested. Edited May 4, 20187 yr by Lip Man 1
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