With the Little League World Series ending this past weekend, I thought this would be a great time to track some of the links connecting nearly a dozen great baseball movies.
So nice to see an episode about The Bad News Bears. It's a very nostalgic movie for me as I happened to play my first two years of tee ball at that park. It was called Mason park in Chatsworth California. I remember vividly how they built all the stuff for the movie. They improved all the fields, the scoreboard, and the snack bar. It was all built for the movie but really improved our playing conditions for years to follow. Thanks
I can't believe it isn't on blu-ray yet. Paramount is one of the worst for releasing their older movies on blu...Ordinary People, Popeye, Black Sunday, Ghost and the Darkness, Dragonslayer, Looking for Mr Goodbar, etc. The list is endless.
You and I are nearly the same age. I was 12 in 1982. In 1973, at the age of three I lost my leg. I too played little league and wasn't very good. In fact, I wasn't much of an athlete at all, but I never blamed my leg. In every foot race I was ever in, I finished last. But I did finish. I too took inspiration from Bad News Bears. I also had a bit of a crush on Tatum O'Neil, even though she was older than me.
I wasn't all that great either bro, and I had 2 legs. At least we played the American Game. By the way, young man, I was 13 in 1982. Have a good one brother.
i agree. My dad was my little league coach from 1980 to 1983. He drank a 6 pack just about every game. kept a little ice cooler with budweiser. we finished in first place every year. He would yell at us and smack us in the head for stupid mistakes. but he was funny. we loved playing for him.
I don’t even like baseball but I did watch this entire video because of the fine job you did. I clicked on it for my love BNB and the viewing I make of ALOTO every few years. Thanks. ⚾️
I just visited Mason Park yesterday in Chatsworth, CA (where they shot 'The Bad News Bears') since I live only 10 miles away but never knew it was there until recently. It was also my first impression on baseball at age 10. Great video.
Always appreciated that dugout scene , one of my favorite movies . Had a odd small town little league tryout experience in the seventies , never played . No loss to the baseball world ... luv ya Buttercrud ! Tell us about the time you struck out Ted Williams !
Bad News Bears seemed to be a revolutionary new movie which happened to come out in our bicentennial year, I was 10 years old. Aside from the foul language, it's a darn good lasting movie!
Our town's little league program had a bad news bears team, it was the dumping ground for players no one wanted or thought couldn't play. They tried pretending it was a fair & honest system of placing kids but The Yankees and other year after year winning teams always got the same kids and the rest of us got a team with no equipment, a coach who wasn't, thankfully, a drunk but knew next to nothing about baseball. We won one game. . . because we had a man on 1st in the first inning and the game was called due to bad weather. There were no mercy rules back then, 32-0 happened. It made me hate baseball.
I played at that team as well. It was the same year after year. I don't hate baseball but certainly it helped me learn to always root for the underdog.
@@billfisk3323 and the Yankees or Mets, the best teams in the league always had the same players, always the ones they thought had a chance at scholarships or to bring home the trophies. I gave up after one year with record of 1 win, by default due to rain.
If you want to know what the 70's was like for kids, this is the perfect movie. Zero parental supervision. Kids had old drunk coaches to wrangle them around a ball park and there were pinball arcades for kids who didn't play sports. cigarettes, beer and finger fukking were all part of junior high and even late elementary school. Kids swore, neighbors swore at and hit kids who came into their yards. Racist comments were all part of the day. People emptied their car's ash tray right out the car window at a stop light. nobody wore seat belts, shoplifting and trespassing were all part of growing up, and spending a day breaking beer bottles in the woods behind the grocery store or out by the dump was a day well spent. you were chucked out in the morning, and if you came home in time for dinner no one asked you where you'd been with any more enthusiasm than asking you to pass the potatoes.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Will, you ought to be a screenplay writer. Obviously you lived what you wrote above. I'm still chuckling as I reread your memories. One more time........HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Silken spider thread of tenuous cohesion... Nice production. I played Oscar and Felix in the same production on stage with a friend ages ago and was an extra for a couple days on 'Bad News...'
I was a left handed pitcher in high school who also presented a scene from The Odd Couple, playing Oscar Madison for drama class. Now, my son is an athletic scholarship right handed pitcher about to join a farm development team in Florida called...the Black Sox. Weird.
Consider these degrees of separation: D.B. Sweeney played Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Field Of Dreams," but also played a hockey player turned figure skater in "The Cutting Edge,"which co-starred Dwier Brown, who played the young John Kinsella in the ending scene of "Field Of Dreams," which as we all know was a movie that featured the character of Joe Jackson
In Bull Durham, the Sarandon part name - Annie Savoy, has the connection you mentioned but also the character's first name comes from the phrase 'baseball annie' about player female groupies.
A Boy and His Dog would be interesting. Hockey films, Football films and how about a Curling Film Men with Brooms? Electroglide in Blue, Harold and Maude.
Not sure about that. Lots of kids in our neighborhood are still playing baseball, catching frogs in the creek, building ramps for their bikes and skateboards, and doing other things we all did back in the 70s.
You time stamp your videos too much. I watched this in the beginning of December, 2019, no where NEAR the conclusion of the Little League World Series, 2018. This "timing" of the videos is useless. I can appreciate your wanting to put in a reference why you do some of the presentations you do, but precise times are not necessary. It's the same as someone saying "I went Christmas shopping today" in their video, but someone watches it in May.
