In more silly list news, EW checks in with its ten baseball movie all-stars. To save you the ten clicks, here's their lineup:
P Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn (Major League)
3B Buck Weaver (Eight Men Out)
2B Jackie Robinson (The Jackie Robinson Story)
RF Jimmie Piersall (Fear Strikes Out)
P Amanda Wuhrlitzer (Bad News Bears)
RF Roy Hobbs (The Natural)
LF Shoeless Joe Jackson (Field of Dreams)
1B Lou Gehrig (Pride of the Yankees)
C Dottie Hinson (A League of Their Own)
C Crash Davis and P Nuke LaLoosh (Bull Durham)
Besides the obvious issues like the lack of a shortstop or centerfielder and that two of them throw like girls (Anthony Perkins and Tim Robbins I'm looking in your direction) this isn't even close to the greatest baseball movie team you could assemble. I'm not even talking obvious ones like adding Babe Ruth or Reggie Jackson. I'm thinking the best movie lineup you could possibly assemble would look something like this:
C Bugs Bunny
LF Bugs Bunny
RF Bugs Bunny
P Bugs Bunny
3B Bugs Bunny
CF Bugs Bunny
1B Bugs Bunny
SS Bugs Bunny
2B Bugs Bunny
(Note that you would presumably replace P Bugs Bunny with DH Bugs Bunny in an American League game. While obviously P Bugs Bunny is a fantastic hitter, substituting the equally fantastic DH Bugs Bunny would free P Bugs Bunny to just paste pathetic palookas with his powerful, paralyzing, perfect, pachydermous percussion pitch.)
If you don't believe me, please check out Derek Zumsteg's ultimate word on the subject: Bugs Bunny, Greatest Banned Player Ever. It's baseball analysis at its finest.
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Roy Hobbs in right field is debatable over Joe Hardy from "Damn Yankees". Inboth cases,they were one year wonders who did not have the staying power to help their teams the next year.
And how can you not include two better choices in left field...Ty Cobb in "Cobb" and Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Eight Men Out"? At least SJJ batted from the correct side in "EMO" unlike "Field of Crap"
Still, William Bendix as Babe Ruth rules.
All I know is that the plate umpire would most definitely be Enrico Palazzo. Plus he could also sing the national anthem.
So if you did want to put together a team from non-animated movies, how would you go? My take:
C Yogi Berra (Touch of Mink)
1B Lou Gehrig (Pride of the Yankees)
2B Eddie Collins (Eight Men Out)
SS That's a tough one
3B Ed the Monkey (Ed)
LF Joe Jackson (Eight Men Out)
CF Mickey Mantle (Touch of Mink)
RF Babe Ruth (Number of films)
P Prof. Vernon K. Simpson (It Happens Every Spring)
Can you think of a shortstop that was portrayed in a movie without throwing the World Series?
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