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The Odd Couple

One was a baseball fan, the other, maybe not so much? (Neil Simon and Chuck Berry)

August 27, 2018

Both gave inaccurate accounts of what happened during a ballgame. Neil Simon, one of the great playwrights of our time, passed away yesterday at the age of 91. His baseball connection? This scene from the film version of The Odd Couple, which was released in 1968. By the way, that play was pure fiction: the […]

Tagged as: Chuck Berry, Neil Simon, The Odd Couple

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More “baseball” movie news

October 1, 2013

Last month, Baseball Nation posted this entry about baseball-themed movie posters, even if the movies weren’t about the game itself, which led to some semantic reservations by yours truly. This time they come out and say that these are “The top 10 baseball scenes (in non-baseball movies)” The piece, by Jim Baker, is especially timely […]

Tagged as: Dennis D'Agostino, Maury Allen, New York Mets, The Odd Couple

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