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Billy Young, played by Roy Scheider, was the veteran outfielder who turns his season around and leads the Tigers to the playoffs after being inspired by the main character in the made-for-TV movie Tiger Town. Need that veteran presence off the bench. Mel Clark, played by Tony Danza in the Angels in the Outfield remake, puts the team on his shoulders by throwing over 159 pitches to get the Angels into the playoffs after the heavenly angels can no longer help them. I don't know about Sidd Finch. He's fictional but was just invented for a story as a prank. tadashi fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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Thinking about Rookie of the Year, wasn't there a classic film where a kid gets a contract to pitch and then he loses his gift for some reason but the closing scene shows him punting a football an impossible distance (I'm just mentioning the football reference for context)? Maybe I have the plot wrong but it's something like this and I can't think of the title. I would personally take Nuke over Crash from Bull Durham. Nuke being called up for a pennant drive suggests he has upside as a great closer or future middle rotation pitcher. (In reality, it's just the writers taking advantage of people having no idea how the minors work but  ). You could use John C. Reily's character from For the Love of the Game as the backup catcher. I don't remember which side he hit from or anything. Just a suggestion.
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Has anybody seen How Do You Know? Is there any actually sports in it? They mention in the synopsis that Owen Wilson is a pitcher for the Nationals and Witherspoon is a former softball player but there's no position. Additionally, there's no one from Bad News Bears but, if you're really going for best baseball player, I doubt any kids without celestial aid or freak accidents belong. tadashi fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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Aug 7, 2014 21:12
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If you want to go with a 5 man rotation, you could fill it out with Henry Wiggen from Bang the Drum Slowly (et all) who was supposed to be a star pitcher.
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ChickenMedium posted:If we're considering "before they got old/injured," I'm nominating Tony Micelli for 2B. Double Tony Dazas would be awesome.
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