Posted by ArlenWilliam on 6/5/2015 12:29:00 AM (view original):
A semi-biographical movie could be made about a demon that traveled around in Chicago, and from a Violet Popovich Valli to a Ruth Ann Steinhagen, who just a few years apart used a .25 and a .22 respectively on Billy Jurges and Eddie Waitkus, the young player dubbed "a natural."

(If any writers/producers see this, I'll take just a small share of royalties for the idea. Have your people sitemail my people.) 

We could get Barbara Hershey to play the femme fatale...and, I dunno, maybe a young Redford or someone to play the victim...oh, wait....

I would prefer to be mentored in baseball and instructed in spiritual profundity and poetical justice of the quantum universe by Susan Sarandon myself ! 

Jim Bouton

Posted by SpotSell on 6/5/2015 2:40:00 PM (view original):
Jim Bouton

for those who don't remember the TV series

Posted by italyprof on 6/5/2015 10:11:00 AM (view original):
I would prefer to be mentored in baseball and instructed in spiritual profundity and poetical justice of the quantum universe by Susan Sarandon myself ! 

I'd take it up a notch, and take David Bowie's place with Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger ...

Posted by mlent on 6/5/2015 6:53:00 PM (view original):

Posted by SpotSell on 6/5/2015 2:40:00 PM (view original):
Jim Bouton

for those who don't remember the TV series

??

Posted by pinotfan on 6/5/2015 8:19:00 PM (view original):

Posted by italyprof on 6/5/2015 10:11:00 AM (view original):
I would prefer to be mentored in baseball and instructed in spiritual profundity and poetical justice of the quantum universe by Susan Sarandon myself ! 

I'd take it up a notch, and take David Bowie's place with Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger ...

Well if we are going that far, I would go with taking Robert Downey Jr.'s place in the Avengers and going on a mission with Scarlett Johannsen !

Posted by italyprof on 6/6/2015 9:23:00 AM (view original):

Posted by mlent on 6/5/2015 6:53:00 PM (view original):

Posted by SpotSell on 6/5/2015 2:40:00 PM (view original):
Jim Bouton

for those who don't remember the TV series

??

It would pretty hard to remember but it lasted 5 episodes on CBS back in 1976, not really a bio, I was just being a wisenheimer, actually Bouton had a pretty interesting 
career His glory years or glory year with the Yanks, his year withe Pilots and his comeback with the Braves would actually make a good mini-series or a Ken burns film

Mark Fidrych. The bird

Posted by mlent on 6/5/2015 6:53:00 PM (view original):

Posted by SpotSell on 6/5/2015 2:40:00 PM (view original):
Jim Bouton

for those who don't remember the TV series

Oh I remember it.  It was terrible, poorly done.

I want a movie about William Van Winkle (Chicken) Wolf

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wolfji01.shtml

Seriously...who wouldn't want a movie about Chicken Wolf!!!

Ok, but what's interesting about his life other than being born in Louisville during the Civil War? And having a very cool combo nickname and last name?

Let's see...grew up being boyhood friends of HOF Pete Browning. Played semi-pro ball before being recruited to join the newly founded American Association. Was a solid hitter who had a magical 1890 season leading the league in BA. Due to an argument with his manager, he successfully got him fired and took over as manager and then lead the first players strike in major league baseball history. Post baseball, he became a firefighter and due to a horrible firefighting accident, wound up in the Central Asylum for the Insane where he passed away at a young age.

It might be a tearjerker at the end, but would certainly be an interesting period movie and one heck of a slice of life film.

http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/3f8eac9e

Who remembers the TV movie about Pete Gray???

a winner never quits, and ted Williams plays john wayne, wins two wars,two triple crowns, no mvps, and no world series