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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Friday, April 4, 2008
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