With the new baseball season just getting under way, it is time to reflect on some of the great baseball movies with a quote quiz. Match the quote from a baseball movie with the correct movie. Some are easy, some are more difficult. Answers will be posted in the comments.
The Quotes:
(1.) “This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.”
(2.) “You know what we get to do today, Brooks? We get to play baseball.”
(3.) “People all say that I’ve had a bad break.”
(4.) “There’s no crying in baseball.”
(5.) “You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball.”
(6.) “Mild thing, you make my butt sting!”
(7.) “You love the Red Sox, but have they ever loved you back?”
(8.) “You have never been this close to greatness in your short life son. And you love it.”
(9.) “I am hung over, my knees are killing me and if you’re gonna pull this shit at least you can say you’re from the Yankees.”
(10.) “I’ve been brushing up on my Spanish of late, and I think he is saying something about, you know, his being Catholic, and it’s [wearing a cup] a sin.”
(11.) “Say it ain’t so, Joe. Say it ain’t so. ”
(12.) “God, I just love baseball.”
Match Each Quote With Correct Movie from This List:
(a) Bull Durham (1988); (b) A League of Their Own (1992); (c) Bad News Bears (1976); (d) Cobb (1994); (e) The Natural (1984); (f) Pride of the Yankees (1942); (g) Fever Pitch (2005); (h) Major League (1989); (i.) Field of Dreams (1989); (j) Eight Men Out (1988); (k) Major League II (1994); (l) The Rookie (2002).
Ratings:
0-2 correct: Little League; 3-4 correct: Single A; 5-6 correct: Triple A; 7-8 correct: Major League Rookie; 9-10 correct: Major League Starter; 11 correct: Major League All-Star; 12 correct: World Series Champ.
Answers will be posted in the comments. What is your favorite baseball movie quote?
(2010) — released on DVD this month — are different but haunting in a similar way. So that after watching it, I felt like I had not breathed for the entire 88 minutes running time. Yael Hersonski’s documentary examines an unfinished Nazi propaganda film taken of the Warsaw Ghetto in May 1942, a few months before the people there started being sent to the Treblinka extermination camp. Although that uncompleted propaganda film, called “Das Ghetto,” was found soon after the end of World War II, another film of outtakes found in 1998 revealed how much of the propaganda film was staged. The Nazis made the Jewish people in the film participate in staged scenes to highlight a contrast between the poor and those who appeared to be more affluent.