Top 10 poll #6: #6 player in history - Runoff

[calsnowskier]

Bobby Rayburn, Roy Hobbs

 

[Cedrique]

Oooh interesting...other than Ruth have any others had movies made about them? Jackie Robinson obviously but he won't make the top 20 by a long shot. Oh yeah Mantle and Maris had a movie. Can't remember any others.

I wish there were more baseball movies about the old timers. The Ken Burns documentary was really good. There was also a new documentary about Mike Schmidt that just came out. Also there was a Say Hey Willie Mays movie

 

[msgkings322]

Shoeless Joe was basically featured in 2 movies! But they weren’t necessarily about him.

Right, one was a odd fantasy and the other was about the whole Black Sox scandal. But we can add him to the list because I said so.

 

[msgkings322]

Bobby Rayburn, Roy Hobbs

Like I said, no other real ones...

 

[Janus]

Oooh interesting...other than Ruth have any others had movies made about them? Jackie Robinson obviously but he won't make the top 20 by a long shot. Oh yeah Mantle and Maris had a movie. Can't remember any others.

Ya Ty Cobb and Lou Gehrig

 

[msgkings322]

Ya Ty Cobb and Lou Gehrig

Dude look at what I replied to. That's what prompted my question.

 

[broncosmitty]

I wish there were more baseball movies about the old timers. The Ken Burns documentary was really good. There was also a new documentary about Mike Schmidt that just came out. Also there was a Say Hey Willie Mays movie

Burns got lazy with his Cobb portions. Real lazy.

 

[Cedrique]

Burns got lazy with his Cobb portions. Real lazy.

Yeah actually I missed that the last time I saw it. I think I fell asleep and woke up in WWII . The whole thing is like 9 2 hour movies. A lot of good quotes throughout it though.

 

[chappee11]

Right, one was an odd fantasy and the other was about the whole Black Sox scandal. But we can add him to the list because I said so.

Now I want to watch Eight Men Out. I haven’t seen it in 30+ years, I bet.

 

[broncosmitty]

Yeah actually I missed that the last time I saw it. I think I fell asleep and woke up in WWII . The whole thing is like 9 2 hour movies. A lot of good quotes throughout it though.

And Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Hubba hubba.

 

[Janus]

Dude look at what I replied to. That's what prompted my question.

Dude you asked if there were any other movies about MLB players, I said yes, Ty Cobb and Lou Gehrig
COBB and Pride of the Yankees

 

[Cedrique]

And Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Hubba hubba.

I bet she was something before electricity

 

[msgkings322]

Dude you asked if there were any other movies about MLB players, I said yes, Ty Cobb and Lou Gehrig
COBB and Pride of the Yankees

Look again you goober. I knew about those already before you wasted your time.

 

[msgkings322]

My dad told me about another one: Fear Strikes Out, about Jimmy Piersall, a real MLB outfielder who I guess battled mental illness of some kind. Played by Anthony Perkins in one of his typecast roles as a nut.

 

[chappee11]

My dad told me about another one: Fear Strikes Out, about Jimmy Piersall, a real MLB outfielder who I guess battled mental illness of some kind. Played by Anthony Perkins in one of his typecast roles as a nut.

Now I’m thinking about Moe Berg; the MLB player who was a spy in Germany in WWII. He was tasked with killing some Nazi scientists and the whole story sounds almost impossible to believe. Anyway, they made a movie about him where he was played by Paul Rudd. It looks like it’s streaming now on Netflix if anyone is interested. I never saw it:

 

[LHG]

How could anyone forget the best MLB movie ever, The Rookie?

Okay, so its a little goofy and the guy was hardly ever close to being a HOF but I still like the story of Jim Morris (although having Dennis Quaid play him seemed a bit odd).

 

[chappee11]

How could anyone forget the best MLB movie ever, The Rookie?

Okay, so its a little goofy and the guy was hardly ever close to being a HOF but I still like the story of Jim Morris (although having Dennis Quaid play him seemed a bit odd).

Nice! Another story that almost seemed impossible.

 

[calsnowskier]

When will they make the Jim Abbott movie?

 

[MilkSpiller22]

When will they make the Jim Abbott movie?

good question... would actually be pretty interesting... how he did everything single handedly...

 

[LHG]

When will they make the Jim Abbott movie?

That would be interesting. However, if Disney makes it, they would probably have him playing with Michael Jordan during his comeback year with the White Sox.

I still wonder what happened to him in 1996. He was pretty good up until that year. Then he suddenly became the worst starting pitcher in MLB. He looked decent in the comeback year with the White Sox in 1998 but got lit up again in 1999 and retired a 2nd time.

In a 6 degrees of separation with Abbott, I went to high school (for one year) with one of the guys the Angels traded to the White Sox to reacquire him in 1995. The Angels had just drafted McKay Christensen the year before but was on his 2nd year Mormon mission when the trade happened. Last I saw, he was working as a bigwig for Melaleuca.