December 8, 2024
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This idea came up in an article by Tim Kabel last week where we were asked to remember famous movie quotes.
Today, please share your favorite quotes from baseball movies.
BUT PLEASE DO NOT make this a space to tell others that you dislike the movies they enjoy. Please leave those negative opinions to yourself. Thanks!
ENJOY!
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“Knock the cover off the ball” - The Natural
"There's no crying in baseball." A League of Their Own
“But today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth”
Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig in “Pride of the Yankees”. Still gets me every time.
Me thinks I'm gonna have to watch the original Angels in the Outfield (1951) or For the Love of the Game (1999) to get it right, but here are 2 of them:
From Love of the Game: The Late, Great Vince Scully: The Cathedral that is Yankee Stadium belongs to a Chapel
From Love of the Game: This one wasn't spoken, but rather written on the baseball that Chapel had sent up to the owner's box: Tell them I'm through
"Are all these people unemployed?"
"No, they're all attending their grandmother's funeral"