From the film version of Eight Men Out:
[Shoeless Joe Jackson is talking to his bat]
Shoeless Joe: Big whop now. Big whop, Betsy; you tell me when.
Freddie: Does it ever answer you, Joe?
Lefty Williams: Probably sleeps with it, too.
Lefty Williams: Lay off, you guys.
Hap Felsch: You crackers stick together, huh?
Swede Risberg: Ask it for a triple, Joe. You hear me?
Freddie: 60 years since the Civil War, Lefty. Ease up.
Hap Felsch: Besides, you guys lost. It was in all the papers.
Freddie: That wouldn’t help Jackson none.
[Players laugh]
Lefty Williams: Just leave him be.
This is what I was reminded of when I saw this piece on EW.com about “I’m Still Not Over… Kit beating Dottie in ‘A League of Their Own'”
If you recall the climactic scene, Kit Keller plows into her sister and opposing catcher, Big Dottie Henson, dislodging the ball for the winning run in the AAGPBBL World Series.
That movie was 20 years ago and it was a everybody lives happily ever after ending: Dottie gets to go off with her returning-veteran husband and Kit finally gets out of she big sister’s shadow.
A better subject for “I’m Still Not Over…” piece? How about the ending of The Natural, which is about as far away from the original as you can get and still call the product by the same title.
More on Eight Men Out:
- You can read the whole Asinof book here (on-line).
- “25 Things You Didn’t Know About the Classic Baseball Drama” (I knew about half of them and a few I find very questionable and in need of further research.
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