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I grew up a White Sox fan. I still have the ticket

I grew up a White Sox fan. I still have the ticket stub from the very first game I ever attended. Comiskey Park on August 17, 1963 against the dreaded New York Yankees. Yep, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra versus Nellie Fox, Hoyt Wilhelm, Jim Landis and Joe Horlen. As a kid, I didn’t yet understand that you couldn’t be a White Sox fan AND like the Yankees as well. But what kid didn’t like Mickey Mantle? 🤷‍♂️ My biggest memory from that August day? Nope, not a catching a foul ball or having Juan Pizzaro sign my program… It was eating too many 🌭 and getting a bit as they say under the weather! And that ticket? Purchased at a Sears store, seat location hand written… HAH! Now everything is electronic… pretty sad IMO. Like you can keep your Ticketmaster e-ticket stuffed away in your dresser drawer for 50 years. Memories are fleeting, and harder than ever to look back on these days...

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The transition from being a fan in 1963 to covering the team as their Official Team Photographer has been a thrill I'll never forget and will cherish forever. When Steve Lyons made the final putout to close out the incredible history of Old Comiskey Park on September 30, 1990, it closed out a chapter in my own life as well. But that next chapter … �😲

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#White Sox #MLB #Baseball #VeselyPhotography #OldComiskeyParkFinalOut
#SteveLyons #LifesJourney
#BaseballPhotographer #BaseballisStillPartOfMyLife
#SportsPhotographer #SlideFilm #ManualFocus #OldSchool #SemiRetiredAndLovingIt #NikonUSA🇺🇸

Over the next ten or so weeks I thought it would b

Over the next ten or so weeks I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite images (along with a story or two) taken during my 37 year run as the @WhiteSox team photographer... In no particular order, just faves of mine. Thought I'd start with a fellow 1985 rookie; "I like to tell people I broke into “The Show” with the White Sox the same year as a young Venezuelan shortstop who wore #13... Need I say more? Late in September of ’85, I asked Ozzie if he wouldn’t mind posing for a few portraits emulating the poses that the great Chico Carrasquel recorded back in the ‘50s. Early in the morning on the last Sunday game of the season, out walked Ozzie in his full game uniform. Little did anyone know at the time the historical significance these simple portraits would hold."
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#White Sox #MLB #Baseball #VeselyPhotography
#BaseballPhotographer #BaseballisStillPartOfMyLife
#SportsPhotographer #SemiRetiredAndLovingIt #NikonUSA🇺🇸
#OzzieGuillen #Film #Kodachrome

Still a thrill to see one of my images on the cove

Still a thrill to see one of my images on the cover of something special… Like on best selling author @howardbryantbooks biography on the great #RickeyHenderson! …ESPECIALLY now as the printed piece has become more and more rare as the world continues it digital journey… My ⚾️ 📷 archive lives on!
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#My38thSeason #MLB
#BaseballisStillPartOfMyLife #SemiRetiredAndLovingIt
#VeselyPhotography
#VeselyPhotographyArchives
#Baseball #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#OaklandColiseumRoadTrip
#NikonUSA🇺🇸

Congrats to the AL ALL-STAR STARTING SHORTSTOP, th

Congrats to the AL ALL-STAR STARTING SHORTSTOP, the amazing #Seven #TimAnderson! So happy and proud of you and your accomplishments… Proud to say I’ve know you since you were #TA12… 😉 🤣
Keep it up my friend… I know you will… wouldn’t expect anything less from you… 🤜🏼⚾️🤛🏿
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#My38thSeason #MLB
#BaseballisStillPartOfMyLife #SemiRetiredAndLovingIt
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸 #Portraits #PaulBuff

What a day this was!! The @WhiteSox threw a little

What a day this was!! The @WhiteSox threw a little pre game celebration for me recognizing my 37 years as the "visual historian" of the team I grew up rooting for. Humbled, honored and feeling week in the knees. Thank you to everyone at the #WhiteSox whom not only did I work with but took me in as part of their family spanning five decades! You will always be like a family to me!!

Ready for action… 💪🏿😤#TA7 . . . . #Wh

Ready for action… 💪🏿😤#TA7
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#WhiteSox #ToolsOfTheTrade #StickTalk #ChangeTheGame
#My38thSeason #MLB
#BaseballisStillPartOfMyLife #SemiRetiredAndLovingIt
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸 #Z9

Guess who? 🤔 . . . . #PitoOfCourse #WhiteSox

Guess who? 🤔
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#PitoOfCourse #WhiteSox #DoubleBanded #JoseAbreu #My38thSeason #MLB
#BaseballisStillPartOfMyLife #SemiRetiredAndLovingIt
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸 #Z9

#Flashback …last weekend… Time to Cowboy Up an

#Flashback …last weekend… Time to Cowboy Up and get ready to #BeatNY this weekend in their house boys! The #WhiteSox #Yankees rivalry goes back a long time… It’s our turn… 😤⚾️😤
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#My38thSeason #MLB
#BaseballisStillPartOfMyLife #SemiRetiredAndLovingIt
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸 #Z9

#WhiteSox fans… tonight the @johnnycueto47 #Sout

#WhiteSox fans… tonight the @johnnycueto47 #SouthSide journey begins… He’s been a big game pitcher before, why not once again? 🤔 Cheers Johnny as you embark on the next chapter… here’s to making it one to remember!!🍻💥⚾️💥🍻 Good luck to you!
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#My38thSeason #MLB
#BaseballisStillPartOfMyLife #SemiRetiredAndLovingIt
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #BaseballPhotographer
#VeselyPhotographyArchive #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸

#WhiteSox #CityConnect Monday!! 💥⚾️💥 Yea

#WhiteSox #CityConnect Monday!! 💥⚾️💥 Yeah, baby!! 🔥 🔥 #BestInBaseball #SouthSide
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#My38thSeason #MLB
#BaseballisStillPartOfMyLife #SemiRetiredAndLovingIt
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸 #Z9

Yesterday’s #WhiteSox winner was packaged up nic

Yesterday’s #WhiteSox winner was packaged up nice and neat… Great pitching, timely hitting, solid defense and it even featured a base running clinic by #Pito ! ⚡️⚾️⚡️ #SouthSidePride #Boom💥
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#My38thSeason #MLB
#BaseballisStillPartOfMyLife #SemiRetiredAndLovingIt
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸 #Z9

How about that @dylancease7 !! 👏 The #Southside

How about that @dylancease7 !! 👏 The #Southsiders got back in the win column thanks to a dominating game by Dylan and staff, combined with some timely hitting and solid defense. Nice job, boys! 💥⚾️💥 Caught a glimpse of Lance Lynn doing some soft toss… can’t wait for the big guy to get back in the bump!! I’ve got additional pics from yesterday to follow shortly… Same great game, different format… 😉
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#WhiteSox #My38thSeason #MLB
#BaseballisStillPartOfMyLife #SemiRetiredAndLovingIt
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸 #Z9

That feeling when you snare a mile high ⬆️ pop

That feeling when you snare a mile high ⬆️ pop up with 50 mph 💨 💨 gusts swirling about during a high wind warning kind of day… 💥⚾️💥
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#My38thSeason #WhiteSox #MLB
#BaseballisStillPartOfMyLife #SemiRetiredAndLovingIt
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸 #Z9

I was thrilled to be covering my 38th #OpeningDay

I was thrilled to be covering my 38th #OpeningDay for the #WhiteSox yesterday! “Semi-Retirement” is exactly that… semi! It was great to see everyone and feel the energy this team has as the 2022 home season kicked off. Fun yet intense… you can feel the emotion in the air! Seems like the perfect combination! And how about that #LuisRobert!! 🔥🔥What a thrill it was to see Harold Baines back as well… If you aren’t aware, Harold underwent a heart and kidney transplant less than a year ago… Thank God for organ donors! …If yesterday was any indication, 2022 is gonna be fun!! 💥⚾️💥
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#My38thSeason #MLB
#BaseballisStillPartOfMyLife #SemiRetiredAndLovingIt
#VeselyPhotography
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸

Saddened to hear of the passing of former #WhiteSo

Saddened to hear of the passing of former #WhiteSox second baseman Julio “Juice” Cruz today… Arriving in Chicago during June of 1983, Cruz made an immediate and positive impact on that Winning Ugly team. Always full of energy, I don’t know of anyone who didn’t love his enthusiasm and contributions. RIP Juice… and thanks again for the case of hot dogs I won as a fan due to your timely single while I listened to a Sox radio broadcast late one night back in 1983… I believe it was a game against the Mariners… I always found it ironic that you were the “hotdog” 😉responsible for my lifetime supply of 🌭’s … 🙏❤️🙏
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#MLB #JulioCruz
#BaseballisMyLife
#VeselyPhotography
#VeselyPhotographyArchives
#Baseball #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸

A sad day today as one of Baseball’s greatest pe

A sad day today as one of Baseball’s greatest people has passed away. Roland Hemond made a lasting, wonderful impression on anyone privileged enough to have met him. My lasting forever moment was in 2005 during our postgame dinner event in Boston following Game 3 of the ALDS. Roland took the floor and passionately reminded all in attendance (team, front office, families and friends) to make sure to “breathe”, to take in what was happening around us… that it was important to do so because if we let ourselves just “immerse ourselves” in our chosen duties, we would miss out on absorbing the moment. Anyone there will never forget that moment, and from that moment on I made sure to stop and “smell the roses”… like looking at the out of town scoreboard prior to Game One of the 2005 World Series and for the first time, I was visually reminded we were THE only game in baseball! 😎Thanks Roland… May you Rest In Peace… 🙏❤️🙏
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#WhiteSox #RolandHemond #MLB #Baseball2021 #BBHOF
#BaseballisMyLife
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #My37thSeasonisNowOver #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸

Happy (belated) Birthday @the_bigbaby74 !! 🎉 Be

Happy (belated) Birthday @the_bigbaby74 !! 🎉 Better late than never they say!! 😉 Hope you had a great day my friend!!! #WhiteSox
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#MLB #Baseball2021
#BaseballisMyLife
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #My37thSeasonisNowOver #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸

Congrats to @hendriks_31 on being named the 2021 A

Congrats to @hendriks_31 on being named the 2021 AL Reliever of the Year for the SECOND straight year!!! 👊🏼⚾️💥💥⚾️👊🏼 Sure was great having you on the #SouthSide this past season… looking forward to even bigger and better things to come, #Slydah!! 😉 So great… congrats again to you!
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#WhiteSox #MLB #Baseball2021
#BaseballisMyLife
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #My37thSeasonisNowOver #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸

#Family… The 2021 #WhiteSox were just that, day

#Family… The 2021 #WhiteSox were just that, day in and day out!! Wonderful memories to look back on and grow from!!💥⚾️💥 We had some fun this year for sure!! 2022… #OurYear #ChangeTheGame !!
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#MLB #Baseball2021
#BaseballisMyLife
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #My37thSeason #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸

Obviously not the ending any of us hoped for, but,

Obviously not the ending any of us hoped for, but, WHAT A SEASON it was!! There was PLENTY of good, and when things were good, they were GREAT!! It was an honor and privilege to be there from Spring Training until #ALDS Game Four, capturing it all 📸 once again for the #WhiteSox!! Love these guys 💥⚾️💥. This year was without question one of my most exciting seasons working with the WhiteSox! Over the next few weeks, as the season winds down, my plan is to post a few more of those memorable moments to help keep us all pumped to get through the off season and look forward to what’s to come!
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#MLB #Baseball2021
#BaseballisMyLife
#VeselyPhotography
#Baseball #My37thSeason #BaseballPhotographer #SportsPhotographer
#NikonUSA🇺🇸

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