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 | 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...
