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Bits and pieces, May 21

May 21, 2014

Looking over the overlooked news in baseball books, etc. ♦ Dwier Brown is making the rounds for his new memoir If You Build It…: A book about Fathers, Fate and Field of Dreams, which is doing very well on Amazon. (Here’s my Bookshelf conversation with Brown). My apologies in that the video opens on its […]

Tagged as: Continental League, Disney, Dwier Brown, ESPN, Field of Dreams, Jon Hamm, Million Dollar Arm, New Yorker, Outside the Lines

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Is it kosher to have Hamm play a Jew?

May 15, 2014

Jon Hamm of Mad Men fame plays the lead role of JB Bernstein in the new baseball film Million Dollar Arm (although I notice on the IMDB page that the character’s last name isn’t included. Hmmm). MDA is based on the true story of a contest whereby two young athletes from India try to get […]

Tagged as: JB Bernstein, Jon Hamm, Million Dollar Arm

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At the movies: Million Dollar Arm

December 23, 2013

Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, it’s certainly an interesting (“based on a true“) story. On the other hand, it seems to borrow from so many baseball/sports films that we’ve already seen. A struggling sports agent? Jerry McGuire, The Scout. Who has an epiphany while witnessing something out of the […]

Tagged as: baseball movies, Jon Hamm, Million Dollar Arm

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