apieceofthegame.tv.<\/a>) Among items to be featured are a basketball from the 1936 Olympics, a personal letter written by Babe Ruth in the 1930s, and a tea set commemorating the New York Yankees\u2019 1962 World Series championship.<\/p>\nNew shows will begin airing nationally in June.<\/p>\n
Dupree, who worked with the late Roger Ebert for two decades as a director and producer of his movie-review shows, noted that he signed the distribution deal for \u201cA Piece of the Game\u201d close to the one-year anniversary of Ebert\u2019s passing April 4.<\/p>\n
\u201cA week before Roger passed, he told me how excited he was about my show and said he wanted me to get it on the air,\u201d Dupree recalled. \"It\u2019s very heartwarming to know that I was able to fulfill the promise I made to Roger. That feels really good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A locally produced sports memorabilia show that began as a series of specials on Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9 has just landed a national distribution deal. Chicago TV veteran Don Dupree, creator and executive producer of \u201cA Piece of the Game,\u201d announced this week that he\u2019s signed a deal for his show to be available in... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}