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'Take Me Out to the Ball Game', Movies Remembered

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Friday, December 15, 2023 10:53 AM
Don't forget about The Naked Gun! It's a baseball movie even though it's not...

88gibby

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Joined: Apr 2021

Friday, December 15, 2023 11:08 AM

Yes sir, that is the Frankie Manning, the GOAT!

glassnickels wrote:

I have to add Bingo Long Travelling All Stars & Motor Kings to my to-do list!

As an aside, is that Frankie Manning in your avatar? Love it!

88gibby wrote:

Sooo many to chose from! In the order I remember seeing them.

1) Bad News Bears - I was in my first year of little league when this came out, so much fun!

2) Take Me Out To The Ball Game (Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra) Great singing, dancing and dead ball era uniforms.

3) Damn Yankees - Gwen Verdon, Tab Hunter & Ray Walston plus a young Bob Fosse. I use to watch a lot of musicals growing up with my grandmother, these last 2 movies always take me back!

4) Bingo Long Travelling All Stars & Motor Kings - My introduction to the Negro Leagues which started a life long fascination

5) Bull Durham - This is a perfect movie!

88gibby

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Joined: Apr 2021

Friday, December 15, 2023 11:11 AM

Do you dance glassnickels? If so, where? I'm in socal.

glassnickels wrote:

I have to add Bingo Long Travelling All Stars & Motor Kings to my to-do list!

As an aside, is that Frankie Manning in your avatar? Love it!

88gibby wrote:

Sooo many to chose from! In the order I remember seeing them.

1) Bad News Bears - I was in my first year of little league when this came out, so much fun!

2) Take Me Out To The Ball Game (Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra) Great singing, dancing and dead ball era uniforms.

3) Damn Yankees - Gwen Verdon, Tab Hunter & Ray Walston plus a young Bob Fosse. I use to watch a lot of musicals growing up with my grandmother, these last 2 movies always take me back!

4) Bingo Long Travelling All Stars & Motor Kings - My introduction to the Negro Leagues which started a life long fascination

5) Bull Durham - This is a perfect movie!

bevans

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Joined: Oct 2016

Friday, December 15, 2023 12:42 PM
Has everyone forgotten "Fever Pitch" and "The Fan"? Sure wish I could...

glassnickels

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Joined: Feb 2012

Friday, December 15, 2023 1:12 PM

I used to back in my college days in New York. Not since then and I've moved to Chicago. I do remember going to at least one of his birthday parties back then - I want to say at Roseland? Lots of good memories for sure!

88gibby wrote:

Do you dance glassnickels? If so, where? I'm in socal.

glassnickels wrote:

I have to add Bingo Long Travelling All Stars & Motor Kings to my to-do list!

As an aside, is that Frankie Manning in your avatar? Love it!

88gibby wrote:

Sooo many to chose from! In the order I remember seeing them.

1) Bad News Bears - I was in my first year of little league when this came out, so much fun!

2) Take Me Out To The Ball Game (Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra) Great singing, dancing and dead ball era uniforms.

3) Damn Yankees - Gwen Verdon, Tab Hunter & Ray Walston plus a young Bob Fosse. I use to watch a lot of musicals growing up with my grandmother, these last 2 movies always take me back!

4) Bingo Long Travelling All Stars & Motor Kings - My introduction to the Negro Leagues which started a life long fascination

5) Bull Durham - This is a perfect movie!

MattnMiller

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Joined: Mar 2017

Friday, December 15, 2023 1:38 PM
I was going to add some documentaries but you beat me to it. In addition to the ones that have already been named been I suggest Knuckleball! and The Battered Bastards of Baseball. Sugar is another interesting movie about what happens to a promising pitching prospect from the Dominican Republic who doesn't make it past the minors. ------------------------------- Matt Sharp

DaveK_ND

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Joined: Nov 2012

Friday, December 15, 2023 1:45 PM
Major League is far and away my favorite, and Major League II is arguably my 2nd favorite. 42 is also in the running for 2nd favorite. Major League III didn't do it for me though.

RebOnita

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Joined: Jun 2020

Friday, December 15, 2023 3:39 PM
There's Hard Ball starring Keanu Reeves which I thought it was ok. The final 15 minutes of the movie is sad

schwitz

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Joined: Nov 2021

Friday, December 15, 2023 5:08 PM

The Natural lives rent free in my head, mostly due to the epic score by Randy Newman, though the story keeps pretty well.

Major League and Bull Durham are so quotable. Baseball memes on demand.

Among baseball movies I've watched only once:

The Babe with John Goodman was actually better than I thought it would be.

Pride of the Yankees is a classic.

Mr. Baseball is also a decent, if trope-laden, film.

And I can't see an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation without thinking about One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story, starring LeVar Burton. Of course, that leads to remembering the night that LeFlore fouled off several pitches into a rain delay and postponement, but that's a story for another time.

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Collecting White Sox, Royals, and 1978 Topps Baseball. Trying to build a multi-sport HOF frankenset.

Done is better than perfect.

j616p

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Joined: Jan 2024

Tuesday, January 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Don't forget MR. Baseball Tom Selleck scaring the crap out of Japanese ball players in the showers...classic. The Natural as well is amazing. Edited on: Jan 9, 2024 - 6:55PM

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