by mike | Jul 4, 2022 | Baseball, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
The 1989 baseball film, Major League, is one of the most outrageous comedies ever to hit the silver screen. The characters and their lines are still quoted to this day, thirty-three years later. But one such character, who had no lines in the movie and was not even...
by mike | Jun 2, 2022 | Baseball, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
With the MLB season well underway, I thought it would be a hoot to revisit a 2018 post that offers some great dialogue from a number of baseball-themed movies. Enjoy! I thought it might be fun to visit a few quotes from some of the most popular baseball movies. Having...
by mike | May 5, 2022 | Baseball, Humor, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
This wonderful film was “based on a true story” from long ago, and I happened to be around long ago to witness it live. The 2009 film, The Perfect Game, was one of those “came-and went” movies that most folks weren’t even aware of when it breezed through their local...
by mike | Jan 17, 2022 | Baseball, Life, Sports, Uncategorized, Women |
Rachel Balkovec has broken through the domed ceiling of professional baseball in a big way. The New York Yankees had hired her in 2019 as their hitting coach, making her the first woman to hold that position full-time. And recently the Bronx Bombers promoted her as...
by mike | Aug 16, 2021 | Aging, Baseball, Books, Fantasy, Ghosts, Magical realism, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
“Three years ago at dusk on a spring evening, when the sky was a robin’s-egg blue and the wind as soft as a day-old chick, I was sitting on the veranda of my farm home in eastern Iowa when a voice very clearly said to me, ‘If you build it, he will come.’” Those words...
by mike | May 10, 2021 | Baseball, Life, Sports, Uncategorized |
The batter standing at home plate was a second- or third-string catcher for most of his 14-year career, with a lifetime batting average of .233 and 34 home runs. The pitcher poised on the mound would win 363 games and become a first-ballot Hall of Famer. What happened...
