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You know it’s the off-season (movie edition, Part Deux)

February 2, 2022

Getting closer (hopefully) to pitchers and catchers reporting but there’s still time to catch a good baseball movie. Or a bad one, depending on your point of view. The folks at MLB’s website are offering their choices on various themes. In this entry, they seek to answer the question, “Which baseball film has the best […]

Tagged as: Bingo Long, Bull Durham, Major League, Moneyball

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Cinematic birthday greetings: James Earl Jones

January 17, 2011

I’ve been meaning to do an entry on him for awhile now. I recently saw Matewan, in which Jones — who turns 80 today — plays “Few Clothes” Johnson, a coal miner involved in a strike. What caught my attention — of course — was a scene in which the miners play a game baseball […]

Tagged as: baseball movies, Bingo Long, Field of Dreams, James Earl Jones, Matewan

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* Announcement: Lecture series on Black Baseball

June 10, 2009

Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience All events are free and open to the public. Events will be held in the Veterans Room of the Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake Street, Oak Park IL unless noted elsewhere. May 10 – June 30 in Library Gallery: Stephen Green, an Oak Park resident and […]

Tagged as: Bingo Long, Jackie Robinson, Negro Leagues

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