Two Big Baseball Stories: Thurman Munson Dies and Don Kessinger Retires

Station

WMAQ

Aired

1979-08-02

Main Contributors

Munson, Thurman
Kessinger, Don

Collection

Ken Owen Collection

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This is Chicago news coverage, recorded on the enormous Betamax I'd purchased with my earnings from the summer before (I was 18 when this happened). Bill Veeck is seen and heard in the Kessinger piece. Footage of Tony La Russa as a minor league manager in Iowa is seen; La Russa replaced Kessinger as skipper of the White Sox. (Ken Owen)