CHILI DOG MVP : DR.DAVID FLETCHER AND JOHN OWENS

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John P Owens is an award-winning media professional with more than 30 years of experience as a writer, journalist, producer, director and videographer. His co -author Is Dr. David J. Fletcher who is a 1972 alum of Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn, Ill., where he played baseball. Sometimes taking three trains as a teenager to go to baseball games in Chicago, he attended over 20 White Sox games in 1972, and witnessed first-hand what Dick Allen meant to the city.The two have worked together in the past on “Buck O’Neil and Black Baseball in Chicago”, a documentary written and filmed by John Owens. The documentary aired on PBS and won the praise of White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who noted that the film was “vitally important for future generations.” In September 2010, Dr Fletcher screened the documentary at the Baseball Hall of Fame film festival in Cooperstown, N.Y. They are the co authors of an amazing new book Chili Dig MVP DICK ALLEN, THE ‘72 WHITE SOX AND A TRANSFORMING CHICAGO