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 | 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 | Apr 19, 2021 | Baseball, Humor, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
Rich guy Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen) is the third baseman for the Cleveland Indians in the outrageous 1989 sports comedy, Major League. Dorn is also a philanderer, which prompts his wife, Suzanne, to exact revenge by seducing the team’s star pitcher, Ricky Vaughn...
by mike | Apr 5, 2021 | Baseball, Fantasy, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
Last week my bride and I were among the 10,000+ fans (20% of capacity at Petco Park, thanks to Covid-19) to attend Opening Day for the San Diego Padres, my favorite team. Padres baseball being my religion, I could not have been happier. Here is a post that I’ve run at...
by mike | Feb 18, 2021 | Movies, Native American Films, Native Americans, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
Native American reservations sit along the edge of America, a part of this country…but then again, not really. (This post first ran in 2017.) Outstanding director Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals, Skins) took a true story and turned it into Edge of America, a 2003...
