Baseball references in non-baseball films

[Meadowlark]

In Death Wish 3 (probably the bizarrest film to feature baseball tangentially) Martin Balsam sports a Brooklyn Dodgers cap throughout.

[cooperstownersincanada]

Has someone mentioned the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where en route to the Dodgers game Larry David picks up a hooker and brings her to the game so he can avoid the traffic and use the car pool lane? The car pool lane requires more than one person to be in the car to use that lane.

[Captain Cold Nose]

Has someone mentioned the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where en route to the Dodgers game Larry David picks up a hooker and brings her to the game so he can avoid the traffic and use the car pool lane? The car pool lane requires more than one person to be in the car to use that lane.

Great episode of a great show. I think this was the first mention of it here, though.

[NJMetfan4life]

In the new movie "The Other Guys" baseball is referenced, and Derek Jeter plays an important part in it.

[cooperstownersincanada]

In the new movie "The Other Guys" baseball is referenced, and Derek Jeter plays an important part in it.

A-Rod is also mentioned.

[abolishthedh]

Two matters worth mention:

1) There is a movie in which Roger Clemens is playing some kind of knucklehead character in a bar, and where he has a cute nickname. Does anyone remember the name of this movie? I caught it once, many years ago on cable.

2) Two TV shows come to mind, each with terrific episodes with cameo appearance by high profile individuals. First, The Beverly Hillbillies had an episode with Leo Durocher playing a Dodger coach or scout who witnesses Jethro's throwing arm. Second, Cheers had an episode with Wade Boggs making an appearance as himself where the Cheers regulars "pants" him when they disbelieve that he is Wade Boggs.

Each of these shows and episodes were classics.

[RuthMayBond]

Two matters worth mention:

1) There is a movie in which Roger Clemens is playing some kind of knucklehead character in a bar, and where he has a cute nickname. Does anyone remember the name of this movie? I caught it once, many years ago on cable.

Kingpin? (Skidmark?)

[EdTarbusz]

In the first season of Wiseguy, Mel Profitt tries to buy the AL expansion team slated for Sacramento with the intention of moving it to Vancouver. He goes as far to design a pin striped uniform for the team that would have looked good on a softball team.

[abolishthedh]

Kingpin? (Skidmark?)

That's it, RMB! The movie was forgettable but the scene was good.

[callingit]

Dredging this thread up as in Public Enemies Johnny Depp as John Dillinger professes a love of baseball.

So much so that on the day of his death (in an obviously fictional scene) he walks into the Chicago field office of the FBI & quizzes the G-Men present about the score of a Cubs game they're listening to on the radio.

If you listen to the radio broadcast in this scene closely, the 'game' is Cubs v. Yankees in the World Series, which is a major blunder because neither the Cubs nor the Yanks played in the World Series that year and Dillinger was killed in July. SO.......

[StrawberryField]

Catch Me If You Can. DiCaprio's father teaches him an important lesson in how to scam by asking him why do the Yankees always win? He answered cause they have the best players. Wrong, it's cause the other team is too busy looking at their pinstripes.

[SteveJRogers]

I think the climatic scene at the end of The Naked Gun, which takes place at an Angels-Mariners game (but filmed at Dodger Stadium), is classic.

"Hey! Look! It's Enrico Pallazzo!"

"ENRICO PALLAZZO!!! ENRICO PALLAZZO!!!"

RIP. Leslie Nielsen.

[SteveJRogers]

Great episode of a great show. I think this was the first mention of it here, though.

Interesting thing. A guy in LA got off of a crime because he was filmed in Dodger Stadium when the scenes for the episode were done when the crime he was charged with took place.

[vintage]

Kingpin? (Skidmark?)

Kick his ass Seabass

[SteveJRogers]

Fenway Park and the surrounding area features heavily in the climatic moments of Ben Affleck's The Town.

[The Commissioner]

I just saw a pretty good documentary entitled "Heir to an Execution" from 2004 about the Rosenbergs. Their eldest son mentions how he and his brother sought comfort in baseball and became Brooklyn Dodgers fans. They also show a lot of photos of the two brothers wearing Brooklyn Dodger caps, a Dodgers t-shirt, and at one point even a Yankees t-shirt. The son also mentions how when they heard about the execution it was because they kept on interrupting a Philadelphia A's game on TV to break the news.

[Captain Cold Nose]

I just saw a pretty good documentary entitled "Heir to an Execution" from 2004 about the Rosenbergs. Their eldest son mentions how he and his brother sought comfort in baseball and became Brooklyn Dodgers fans. They also show a lot of photos of the two brothers wearing Brooklyn Dodger caps, a Dodgers t-shirt, and at one point even a Yankees t-shirt. The son also mentions how when they heard about the execution it was because they kept on interrupting a Philadelphia A's game on TV to break the news.

Man, would Ken Burns have loved to have that in his documentary.

[TonyK]

Watched Hook with my grandson. Captain Hook's team was named the Pirates and Peter Pan's son Jack belts a home run to centerfield. Earlier Jack had struck out to end a little league game and his father missed it.

Robin Williams is Peter Pan who grew up and forgot all about Neverland and never getting old. The movie has a simple moral that I like.

[SteveJRogers]

End of Captain America has a scene where Cap wakes up in 2011, but in order to acclimate him slowly back into society, a government agency plays a old baseball radio broadcast.

Cap realizes he is out of his own time because he remembers being at the game, Phillies at Dodgers, May 24th 1941

[chicagowhitesox1173]

In the 1978 horror movie Dawn Of The Dead theres a zombie in a baseball uniform and I think there was a redneck who had a Pirates batting helmet on. That was a strange fad for grown men to wear those cheap plastic batting helmets in the late 70s and early 80s.

[mjrbaseball]

In the television series "ER", they did a live episode on Sept. 25, 1997. In one scene, the television in the doctors' lounge was showing the Cubs/Astros game. I remember quickly switching over to WGN and they really did have the game on live. ("ER" did the episode again live three hours later for the west coast. I wonder if the game was still going on -- it was in Houston, where it was well after midnight by then. Otherwise, what would be seen on the lounge TV?

[SteveJRogers]

End of Captain America has a scene where Cap wakes up in 2011, but in order to acclimate him slowly back into society, a government agency plays a old baseball radio broadcast.

Cap realizes he is out of his own time because he remembers being at the game, Phillies at Dodgers, May 24th 1941

Check that, the game was the following day, the 25th. Saw the film again at it was when Pete Reiser hit an inside the park grand slam

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1...250BRO1941.htm

[INDYpendent720]

The climax of the film Frequency (2000) with Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel relies heavily on the Miracle Mets and the 1969 World Series. The film is actually pretty good and it gives a lot of info about memorable moments that unfolded during the Series.

[BaronSamedi]

The movie Blast from the Past has Christopher Walken telling his boy, Brendan Fraser, about baseball. In this movie, the family believes the bomb was dropped in like 1962 and so they're living underground in a shelter, and Fraser's character is a cross between an insufferable intellectual and a manic pixie. Walken is trying to give him the basics of baseball, but Fraser just can't grasp the randomness of it, the point of anything that would happen in a game, or the fact that a baseball bat is not, in fact, a nocturnal bug eater.

It's an AWFUL movie.

[dgarza]

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