Foul Ball
Okay, since the Yankees are driving me and all their other diehard fans crazy _ I mean, what kind of world is it when the Yanks are in the cellar and the Mets are in first place! _ let's drown our sorrows briefly by looking at old, great baseball movies.
Any list would have to include "Bull Durham,'' the best baseball movie ever made, in my 'umble opinion, plus "Fear Strikes Out,'' about the personal turmoil of BoSoxer Jimmy Piersall; not to mention "Bad News Bears,'' in which Walter Matthau manages not to be outsmarted by a bunch of kids, and of course the great movie about the even greater Lou Gehrig, "The Pride of the Yankees.''
And for that one scene in which Kate Hepburn has Spencer Tracy delineate the concept of "My grandmother died' to attend a crucial game, let's throw in "Woman of the Year,'' too.
Play ball!
Any list would have to include "Bull Durham,'' the best baseball movie ever made, in my 'umble opinion, plus "Fear Strikes Out,'' about the personal turmoil of BoSoxer Jimmy Piersall; not to mention "Bad News Bears,'' in which Walter Matthau manages not to be outsmarted by a bunch of kids, and of course the great movie about the even greater Lou Gehrig, "The Pride of the Yankees.''
And for that one scene in which Kate Hepburn has Spencer Tracy delineate the concept of "My grandmother died' to attend a crucial game, let's throw in "Woman of the Year,'' too.
Play ball!
posted by Eleanor's blog at 2:34 PM
1 Comments:
As a longtime and long-suffering fan of the Baltimore Orioles, I have to confess I'm not all that upset to see the Yankees struggling for once .. As for baseball movies, there are so many great ones, but my favorite would have to be "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg," a great doco about the Tigers slugger
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