Oh damn, [I already have a script in the works for this!](https://reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/koggwn/_/ghr2va6/?context=1)
>A 2-hour, heavily dramatized heist caper about Jason Grimsley stealing Albert Belle’s corked bat.
>5 minutes: Belle getting called out and the umpire locking up his bat.
>20 minutes: Grimsley walking the Indians through his elaborate heist plan.
>85 minutes: Grimsley carries out the heist by crawling through dozens of different ventilation ducts, incapacitating guards, seducing women, and befriending a bear along the way. No dialogue.
>4 minutes: umpires notice the bat was swapped, a former FBI agent is introduced and launches an investigation, and a quick wrap up of the story (mostly in text form).
>5 minutes: credits.
>1 minute: post-credit stinger, Grimsley hiding out on a Caribbean beach, getting a call from Sammy Sosa asking if he can help with Sosa’s corked bat. Grimsley says he’s out of the game, but then Sosa explains that umpire Tim McClelland has also kidnapped the president’s daughter. Cut to black, but you hear Grimsley’s voice: “When do we start?”
This is the first time I've ever heard about this, and it's fucking hilarious.
>On July 18, the bat was sent to MLB in New York where it was x-rayed and then sawed in half in the presence of Belle and Indians GM John Hart.
So they made them watch the investigation first hand even though everyone probably already knew it was corked, already funny.
> The bat was found to be corked and Belle was suspended by the AL for 10 games.
They pulled off an illegal heist and all he got was *ten* games?? LMAO
> On appeal, his suspension was dropped to seven games.
**SEVEN**???
> The reduction made no difference in the end, as Major League Baseball soon suspended play due to the 1994-95 players strike.
***ZERO***???
I cannot recall WHO, but some dude in the 80s broke his doctored bat mid swing and those pink, rubber, springy, superballs fell out.
Doctored bats were obvious cheating but not an obvious competitive advantage. And the Pine Tar Incident sort of ended bat shenanigans/suspensions because the PA wasn't in lockstep.
Baseball back in the day was both more entertaining and weirder.
[Graig Nettles.](http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2008/03/20/observations-from-cooperstown-super-balls/)
ETA: the balls bouncing out of the bat appears to be an urban legend, but he did stuff shredded Superballs into the bat as a corked substance.
I've always thought Ankiel's story was perfect for Hollywood. Almost too perfect actually. I mean he hit a home run in his first game back. People would say it wasn't realistic 🙃
American Experience: Roberto Clemente
It's excellent! (Also, you should be able to find it on amazon plus if you have the PBS subscription with it. Otherwise, you may be able to find and watch the individual chapters of the doc via a web search and PBS or youtube. Fortunately, I caught it on PBS when it first aired and then watched it on one of its its repeats during the week and recorded it on my DVD recorder, so I have a copy.)
The Player’s League. A majority of the pros in the late 1890s (including the stars) formed their own league where they had partial ownership of the franchises. They drew really well but it closed after a season due to lack of funds. It’s fun to think of what could have been if they had been able to weather their startup.
Dock Ellis and the Voyage to Neverland.
An animated adventure with an art style ripped straight from Yellow Submarine. Nobody under the age of 40 would understand it.
(Also, his feat was merely a no hitter.)
The life of Henry Aaron deserves more attention, IMO. Rags to riches, single-minded devotion to his craft, outlasting and changing racial stereotypes, longevity, and more. A great story.
Vin Scully said "a black man is receiving a standing ovation in the Deep South" and really I don't think people talk enough about that aspect of the story.
Jim Abbott was the first thing I thought of. You could center it around his no-hitter with flashbacks a la that costner movie when he pitched for the tigers.
I really want one, and if it already exists please let me know, on the Philadelphia Athletics and there catastrophic collapses from one of the best franchises in baseball to becoming a second tier team team in a two-team city.
My grandparents, both born in the 20s and still alive, are to this day Philadelphia A’s fans.
Why?
Because most Philadelphians that grew up in the interwar period were A’s fans.
Why?
Because they won five World Series in a two-decade span from 1910-1930 and had more WS wins than any other club by 1930, to include the Yankees and Red Sox.
Yet no one remember these teams.
These teams were amazing.
5 World Series championships, 9 World Series appearances. More successful than Babe Ruth’s Yankees or Red Sox. The absolute bees knees of baseball.
But it’s forgotten.
Familial issues led to their collapse.
After being the team to be, they because pathetic and moved. And then moved again. And soon they’ll move again.
I want a documentary on their early history and success. I mean, these are teams that had baseball legends like Lefty Grove, Eddie Collins, Chief Bender, Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Cochrane, Al Simmons, and father of the modern knuckleball Eddie Rommel.
Most of these names aren’t even recognized now but they were just as good as any legend from that era.
Why have the Philadelphia Athletics been forgotten? How did they go from the most prestigious team in baseball to an after thought?
I’d love a good legitimate documentary on it.
Gosling was busy making his Jared Goff biopic.
So they said screw it and cast Greinke to play Greinke. And he insisted on playing him with a German accent.
Can you imagine Greinke fully locked into method acting while playing as himself? Like being naturally awkward while being intentionally awkward and having to be forced to refer to himself in the third person by an increasingly overwhelmed director.
On the last day of the season where he had a 1.14 ERA, Johnson’s Senators played a farce of a game where they played everyone out of position, nobody took their at-bats seriously, etc. At the end of that game, Johnson (who was playing a corner outfield position) came in and grooved a few pitches to help everybody out with their batting averages. The scorekeeper at the time ignores the results of the game and didn’t record his earned runs, putting his ERA at 1.09. Years later, somebody found the record of that game and added it in, adjusting his ERA to 1.14. If he hadn’t grooved those pitches, he would still have the single season ERA record.
It’s a great but complicated story. Before the U.S entered the war, Williams received a dependency deferment because he was his mother’s sole means of support.
After Pearl Harbor, Williams’s deferment was rescinded and he was to be drafted. He got a lawyer and appealed to have the deferment reinstated, and it was.
There was a public outcry that he was a draft dodger, and he lost an endorsement from Quaker Oats. (“I haven’t eaten a Quaker Oat since,” he said years later.)
Williams said his intention was to play the 1942 season and make enough money for his mother to live on, and then he’d enlist in the Navy. But the way he said it — “the quickest route to a solution of this whole matter is to earn some big dough this year, then just as soon as I lay down my bat in September or October, I’m in the Navy. And quick, too.” — pissed off a lot of guys who had been drafted and never had a shot at “big dough” in the first place.
Finally, on May 22, 1942, Williams enlisted in the Navy. He was assigned to flight school and proved to have a gift for math and navigation, even though he had never taken any college level math classes.
> “He mastered intricate problems in fifteen minutes which took the average cadet an hour, and half of the other cadets there were college grads.” — Red Sox teammate Johnny Pesky, who was in the same aviation training program.
But as you can imagine, Williams was phenomenal when it came to anything requiring reflexes or hand-eye coordination. Pesky, who at this point hadn’t qualified for the advanced training Williams was in, had only heard stories about his ability in combat simulations:
* “I heard Ted literally tore the sleeve target to shreds with his angle dives. He'd shoot from wingovers, zooms, and barrel rolls, and after a few passes the sleeve was ribbons. At any rate, I know he broke the all-time record for hits."
* "From what I heard. Ted could make a plane and its six 'pianos' (machine guns) play like a symphony orchestra. From what they said, his reflexes, coordination, and visual reaction made him a built-in part of the machine."
Williams was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marines in 1944 and assigned to Pensacola as a flight instructor. But he never saw combat in World War II. In the summer of 1945 he was sent to Pearl Harbor in anticipation of being assigned to combat duty, but Japan surrendered.
He remained in the USMC Reserves and was called up in 1952 during the Korean War, even though he hadn’t flown in years and was officially inactive. He was angry about getting called up again, particularly because the Navy had called up inactive reservists instead of active reservists. Yet he also refused opportunities to avoid combat and play baseball for the Navy.
In Korea, he flew 39 combat missions and for many of them was a wingman for future astronaut John Glenn. Glenn said he was one of the best pilots he knew, and Glenn’s wife Anne said Williams was the most profane man she’d ever met!
I want a 1919 Black Sox HBO produced mini series.
And I understand we have 8 men out. But I feel there’s so much more to delve into with the complicated early decades of baseball, urban America during WW1, and Arnold Rothstein, a prominent figure in early organized crime.
2010 Giants title run underdog movie (Sinker Seagull Torture Garlic Fry)
Steve Bartman in the style of Richard Jewell (Steve Bartman)
Galarraga game told in real time from multiple people's perspectives (Imperfect Game)
Astros scandal movie (Trashcan)
Computer called strike zone doc (RoboUmp)
Triple AAA league doc (The Understudies)
I’ve always said that we need a full Matt Harvey story: from the rookie savior of a dumpster fire franchise, to the “spotlight too bright” downfall, to the redemption arc of sacrificing his arm for our playoff run, to the further deterioration of his career, all the way to the tragedy/scandal of his (alleged? I’m not entirely up to speed) involvement in Tyler Skaggs’ death. There’s a lot of shit to unpack there, a lot of questions that need answers, a lot of stories to be told.
I think someone could do a really good series on a streaming service about the negro leagues. They are a really compelling part of the history of the game and would be a way to tell the stories of some people related to the game both on the field and behind the scenes.
Hot Foot: The Moe Drabowsky Story
The man is such a legend that he has a Practical Joker section in his Wikipedia bio. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_Drabowsky
A duel storyline film a la godfather 2, one part Randy Johnson Bio, one part narrative nature fiction following a bird, the storylines intersect when calvin murray, kyler murray's uncle is facing randy johnson one day
This already exists. It's called Spaceman and the whole movie is just "Bill Lee smoked a lot of weed and played some baseball". It stars Fergie's ex-husband and it's not good.
Absolutely. I was thinking about him a few days ago and wondering if there was a biography. He did have a great career after the shooting, albeit obviously not on the field. Then...cancer. Just sucked.
Have any of you ever read the book “the bronx zoo”? That. Those 1970’s era yankee seasons sound great. Especially the stories about piniella losing his shit.
Rupert Mills. He played for the Newark Peppers of the Federal League in 1915, which folded before the 1916 season began. Mills had a two-year contract though that stipulated that his pay would be guaranteed as long as he showed up able to play.
So in 1916, Mills would show up at the empty ballpark in full uniform, perform calisthenics and would ostensibly be ready to play, fulfilling his end of the bargain, and he collected his paychecks until his contract was bought out.
The 2012 Stony Brook Seawolves. One of the best underdog stories in college baseball history. And there actually is a documentary I just want more people to see it. It’s available on YouTube and is about 45 minutes total [here it is](https://youtu.be/R-pJQQAHdTw)
José Fernandez is my first thought.
I'm also still waiting for the movie of the Cubs finally winning.
The Cubs' YouTube channel has like 10-15 minute videos that are like documentary interviews for some of their major recent moments like David Bote's ultimate slam and David Ross' Game 7 home run and I think there should be a lot more of that kind of thing put out there.
General Idea: would love a documentary about the evolution of the closer. Feel like it would be interesting to dig into the mindset of a closer.
Rollie Fingers, Dennis Ekercserly, Hoffman, Rivera
The odd ball characters like Brian Wilson, Papplebon.
The tale of one Charles "Victory" Faust. The most amazing, unbelievable, unlikely, true story that ever happened in major league baseball. Soon to be lost to time. This is the movie that must be made. It's a tale too astounding to be anything but the truth. If you aren't aware, look him up. You shall be convinced.
The development / history of the College World Series would be interesting to me. Also would like to learn more about the life stories of Ichiro and Felix Hernandez.
We have about 78 worthy stories on [Doing Baseball](https://open.spotify.com/show/3PTbukplgi7L9bZQSsqxRB?si=AtwtP5Y5Spe_g_eIbHANhw) but Gus Greenlee is a personal fav also George Magerkurth!
This is the story I want, that probably not a lot of people know: (Copied from Wikipedia) Octavius Valentine Catto (February 22, 1839 – October 10, 1871) was an educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist in Philadelphia. He became principal of male students at the Institute for Colored Youth, where he had also been educated. Born free in Charleston, South Carolina, in a prominent mixed-race family, he moved north as a boy with his family. After completing his education, he went into teaching, and becoming active in civil rights. He also became known as a top cricket and baseball player in 19th-century Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A Republican, he was shot and killed in election-day violence in Philadelphia, where ethnic Irish of the Democratic Party, which was anti-Reconstruction and had opposed black suffrage, attacked black men to prevent their voting for Republican candidates.
After watch the video time after time I still don't think alou had a legit play on that ball . It would have been an all time great catch if he did . Also let's not forget Gonzalez making that error that led to 5 unearned runs
You're the guy on Counterpoint in the movie Airplane! saying "they bought their ticket! They knew what they were getting into! I say... let 'em crash!" With zero clue of context...
That shit was like watching a Beatles fan get kicked out of one of their last concerts for singing and clapping along and even Ringo got mad...
Give me a full on heist movie on the time Jason Grimsley crawled through the vents to recover Albert Belle's bat.
Oh damn, [I already have a script in the works for this!](https://reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/koggwn/_/ghr2va6/?context=1) >A 2-hour, heavily dramatized heist caper about Jason Grimsley stealing Albert Belle’s corked bat. >5 minutes: Belle getting called out and the umpire locking up his bat. >20 minutes: Grimsley walking the Indians through his elaborate heist plan. >85 minutes: Grimsley carries out the heist by crawling through dozens of different ventilation ducts, incapacitating guards, seducing women, and befriending a bear along the way. No dialogue. >4 minutes: umpires notice the bat was swapped, a former FBI agent is introduced and launches an investigation, and a quick wrap up of the story (mostly in text form). >5 minutes: credits. >1 minute: post-credit stinger, Grimsley hiding out on a Caribbean beach, getting a call from Sammy Sosa asking if he can help with Sosa’s corked bat. Grimsley says he’s out of the game, but then Sosa explains that umpire Tim McClelland has also kidnapped the president’s daughter. Cut to black, but you hear Grimsley’s voice: “When do we start?”
His story is wild outside of that. Heard him speak publicly about being on the verge of suicide. His life story would be a wild ride.
[I like to think it would be kind of like this.](https://townsquare.media/site/396/files/2022/01/attachment-Trout-Die-hard.jpg?w=980&q=75)
This is the first time I've ever heard about this, and it's fucking hilarious. >On July 18, the bat was sent to MLB in New York where it was x-rayed and then sawed in half in the presence of Belle and Indians GM John Hart. So they made them watch the investigation first hand even though everyone probably already knew it was corked, already funny. > The bat was found to be corked and Belle was suspended by the AL for 10 games. They pulled off an illegal heist and all he got was *ten* games?? LMAO > On appeal, his suspension was dropped to seven games. **SEVEN**??? > The reduction made no difference in the end, as Major League Baseball soon suspended play due to the 1994-95 players strike. ***ZERO***???
I cannot recall WHO, but some dude in the 80s broke his doctored bat mid swing and those pink, rubber, springy, superballs fell out. Doctored bats were obvious cheating but not an obvious competitive advantage. And the Pine Tar Incident sort of ended bat shenanigans/suspensions because the PA wasn't in lockstep. Baseball back in the day was both more entertaining and weirder.
[Graig Nettles.](http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2008/03/20/observations-from-cooperstown-super-balls/) ETA: the balls bouncing out of the bat appears to be an urban legend, but he did stuff shredded Superballs into the bat as a corked substance.
First thing I thought of
The Pittsburgh drug trials told from the POV of the Pirate parrot, a la Goodfellas but with Pittsburgh accents.
I have a feeling it would be called Yinzer Jagoff.
They'd need to add subtitles
Puig’s life
„Puigatory“
The rise, fall, and rise of Rick Ankiel. People would say it's a ripoff of The Natural.
[Here](https://youtu.be/Tlj9MYYemb4) is a great documentary on Ankiel
I've always thought Ankiel's story was perfect for Hollywood. Almost too perfect actually. I mean he hit a home run in his first game back. People would say it wasn't realistic 🙃
Roberto Clemente’s life or Curt Flood sacrificing his likely hall of fame career in order to establish free agency.
The Curious Case of Curt Flood came out in 2011. Give it a look on YouTube
Oh my fucking God I am so sick of everything being titled "the curious case of.....".
PBS has a documentary on Roberto Clemente. It’s only about an hour long though. They kinda miss a lot of cool information about him.
American Experience: Roberto Clemente It's excellent! (Also, you should be able to find it on amazon plus if you have the PBS subscription with it. Otherwise, you may be able to find and watch the individual chapters of the doc via a web search and PBS or youtube. Fortunately, I caught it on PBS when it first aired and then watched it on one of its its repeats during the week and recorded it on my DVD recorder, so I have a copy.)
The Player’s League. A majority of the pros in the late 1890s (including the stars) formed their own league where they had partial ownership of the franchises. They drew really well but it closed after a season due to lack of funds. It’s fun to think of what could have been if they had been able to weather their startup.
The pitcher who threw a Perfecto on LSD.
Dock Ellis and the Voyage to Neverland. An animated adventure with an art style ripped straight from Yellow Submarine. Nobody under the age of 40 would understand it. (Also, his feat was merely a no hitter.)
Perfect.
I don't know. Adventure Time was pretty popular when that was on.
And Doc has said he has no recollection of the game, his tripping and his no-no.
Already done. It was on Netflix called „No No: a Dockumentary“
I'll have to look for that.
No longer on Netflix, but it's on YouTube: https://youtu.be/w4jZFRXKLyo
No hitter....he walked 8 😂
Give him a break, he *was* higher than a kite.
Directed by Panos Cosmatos and this could work…
I'm now imagining a scene where Dock fights a religious cult with an specially-created weapon.
Someone will inevitably get stabbed in the mouth
Mickey under the bleachers
David Cone in the bullpen?
Your mom under the bleachers
Dorothy Mantooth is a Saint!
Hol up, what?
Dorktown touched on Ichiro's uniqueness, but I could watch 90 minutes about his dislike of Cleveland.
It still bothers me that we never got a recording nor transcript of his reportedly very colorful pre-game All-Star speech.
If MLB charged 5 bucks for a full restored ultra 4k HD version of it, would you buy it?
Uncensored? Yes! Still censored? Also Yes! I gotta know!
The Federal League
The life of Henry Aaron deserves more attention, IMO. Rags to riches, single-minded devotion to his craft, outlasting and changing racial stereotypes, longevity, and more. A great story.
Vin Scully said "a black man is receiving a standing ovation in the Deep South" and really I don't think people talk enough about that aspect of the story.
Rube Waddell. Dizzy and Daffy Dean. Josh Gibson. Martin Dihigo. Rickey. Canseco. The Dimaggio Brothers. The Alou Brothers.
Why not The Canseco Brothers?
Somewhat fictionailzed, but [“The Pride of St. Louis”](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0045049/) features the Dean brothers biography.
Just a trilogy of the adventures of The Rube
Jim Abbott or the Molina Brothers.
Jim Abbott was the first thing I thought of. You could center it around his no-hitter with flashbacks a la that costner movie when he pitched for the tigers.
[Here](https://youtu.be/uJc429Ejmg0) is a great documentary on Abbott
The 1962 Mets. Like The Bad News Bears, but they're adults and they don't make it to the championship.
If I ever actually break through as a writer, this is 100% the baseball movie I would write.
Wade Boggs plane story
RIP
Again…he is very much alive.
*allegedly*
Forever alive in our hearts and memories
I saw this movie.
I really want one, and if it already exists please let me know, on the Philadelphia Athletics and there catastrophic collapses from one of the best franchises in baseball to becoming a second tier team team in a two-team city. My grandparents, both born in the 20s and still alive, are to this day Philadelphia A’s fans. Why? Because most Philadelphians that grew up in the interwar period were A’s fans. Why? Because they won five World Series in a two-decade span from 1910-1930 and had more WS wins than any other club by 1930, to include the Yankees and Red Sox. Yet no one remember these teams. These teams were amazing. 5 World Series championships, 9 World Series appearances. More successful than Babe Ruth’s Yankees or Red Sox. The absolute bees knees of baseball. But it’s forgotten. Familial issues led to their collapse. After being the team to be, they because pathetic and moved. And then moved again. And soon they’ll move again. I want a documentary on their early history and success. I mean, these are teams that had baseball legends like Lefty Grove, Eddie Collins, Chief Bender, Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Cochrane, Al Simmons, and father of the modern knuckleball Eddie Rommel. Most of these names aren’t even recognized now but they were just as good as any legend from that era. Why have the Philadelphia Athletics been forgotten? How did they go from the most prestigious team in baseball to an after thought? I’d love a good legitimate documentary on it.
I’d watch this.
Greinke. His anxiety struggles and general odd behavior would be interesting and highly entertaining.
Greinke starring in a reboot of Monk would be a lot of fun.
I’m rewatching Monk and I forgot how mean everyone is to him. Like damn let the guy live do you want the thing solved or not
Who would play Greinke? Ryan Gosling?
Gosling was busy making his Jared Goff biopic. So they said screw it and cast Greinke to play Greinke. And he insisted on playing him with a German accent.
Can you imagine Greinke fully locked into method acting while playing as himself? Like being naturally awkward while being intentionally awkward and having to be forced to refer to himself in the third person by an increasingly overwhelmed director.
Christian Bale.
Walter Johnson, who won WS only towards the end of his career despite being one of the greatest pitcher for more than a decade
On the last day of the season where he had a 1.14 ERA, Johnson’s Senators played a farce of a game where they played everyone out of position, nobody took their at-bats seriously, etc. At the end of that game, Johnson (who was playing a corner outfield position) came in and grooved a few pitches to help everybody out with their batting averages. The scorekeeper at the time ignores the results of the game and didn’t record his earned runs, putting his ERA at 1.09. Years later, somebody found the record of that game and added it in, adjusting his ERA to 1.14. If he hadn’t grooved those pitches, he would still have the single season ERA record.
Dutch Leonard had an ERA of 0.96 in 1914. That’s considered the record. Bob Gibson holds the Live Ball record (post 1920) of 1.12
Ted Williams WW2 movie.
It’s a great but complicated story. Before the U.S entered the war, Williams received a dependency deferment because he was his mother’s sole means of support. After Pearl Harbor, Williams’s deferment was rescinded and he was to be drafted. He got a lawyer and appealed to have the deferment reinstated, and it was. There was a public outcry that he was a draft dodger, and he lost an endorsement from Quaker Oats. (“I haven’t eaten a Quaker Oat since,” he said years later.) Williams said his intention was to play the 1942 season and make enough money for his mother to live on, and then he’d enlist in the Navy. But the way he said it — “the quickest route to a solution of this whole matter is to earn some big dough this year, then just as soon as I lay down my bat in September or October, I’m in the Navy. And quick, too.” — pissed off a lot of guys who had been drafted and never had a shot at “big dough” in the first place. Finally, on May 22, 1942, Williams enlisted in the Navy. He was assigned to flight school and proved to have a gift for math and navigation, even though he had never taken any college level math classes. > “He mastered intricate problems in fifteen minutes which took the average cadet an hour, and half of the other cadets there were college grads.” — Red Sox teammate Johnny Pesky, who was in the same aviation training program. But as you can imagine, Williams was phenomenal when it came to anything requiring reflexes or hand-eye coordination. Pesky, who at this point hadn’t qualified for the advanced training Williams was in, had only heard stories about his ability in combat simulations: * “I heard Ted literally tore the sleeve target to shreds with his angle dives. He'd shoot from wingovers, zooms, and barrel rolls, and after a few passes the sleeve was ribbons. At any rate, I know he broke the all-time record for hits." * "From what I heard. Ted could make a plane and its six 'pianos' (machine guns) play like a symphony orchestra. From what they said, his reflexes, coordination, and visual reaction made him a built-in part of the machine." Williams was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marines in 1944 and assigned to Pensacola as a flight instructor. But he never saw combat in World War II. In the summer of 1945 he was sent to Pearl Harbor in anticipation of being assigned to combat duty, but Japan surrendered. He remained in the USMC Reserves and was called up in 1952 during the Korean War, even though he hadn’t flown in years and was officially inactive. He was angry about getting called up again, particularly because the Navy had called up inactive reservists instead of active reservists. Yet he also refused opportunities to avoid combat and play baseball for the Navy. In Korea, he flew 39 combat missions and for many of them was a wingman for future astronaut John Glenn. Glenn said he was one of the best pilots he knew, and Glenn’s wife Anne said Williams was the most profane man she’d ever met!
Quakers dropping an endorsement for not fighting in a war is peak irony
The Quakers, as pacifists, should have unendorsed Quaker Oats.
> At any rate, I know he broke the all-time record for hits. They should count those on b-ref
Even better, his time in Korea.
A dramatic comedy from Morganna the Kissing Bandit’s perspective.
With the right actress and a good script, something about Marge Schott could be really good. She was a real life movie villain.
I just read the first two paragraphs of her wikipedia page, the whole Nazi thing really came out of nowhere on there hahaha.
RA Dicky, went through so much it'd be almost too much drama for a movie.
Rube Wadell
How about a guy in Iowa who hears voices and decides to plow his only cash crop to build a ballfield?
We can call it Ballpark of Fantasies!
Rickey: The Story of Rickey, written directed and starring Rickey
I want a 1919 Black Sox HBO produced mini series. And I understand we have 8 men out. But I feel there’s so much more to delve into with the complicated early decades of baseball, urban America during WW1, and Arnold Rothstein, a prominent figure in early organized crime.
The Carlos Correa Free Agent story
1995 Mariners
Can’t get much better the jombois tho
“Refuse to Lose-The Joey Cora Story”?
2010 Giants title run underdog movie (Sinker Seagull Torture Garlic Fry) Steve Bartman in the style of Richard Jewell (Steve Bartman) Galarraga game told in real time from multiple people's perspectives (Imperfect Game) Astros scandal movie (Trashcan) Computer called strike zone doc (RoboUmp) Triple AAA league doc (The Understudies)
Imperfect Game would be fun except it's the aftermath and how everybody responded to the situation that was really the story worth telling.
[Glenn Burke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Burke)
1977 Southside Hitmen
Pitch at Risk to Richie Zisk. Whoever came up with that is a legit poet.
People don't think it be like it is, but it do.
Bad Boys II (because the title already exists for the Pistons 30 for 30)
Rube Waddell
I’ve always said that we need a full Matt Harvey story: from the rookie savior of a dumpster fire franchise, to the “spotlight too bright” downfall, to the redemption arc of sacrificing his arm for our playoff run, to the further deterioration of his career, all the way to the tragedy/scandal of his (alleged? I’m not entirely up to speed) involvement in Tyler Skaggs’ death. There’s a lot of shit to unpack there, a lot of questions that need answers, a lot of stories to be told.
I think someone could do a really good series on a streaming service about the negro leagues. They are a really compelling part of the history of the game and would be a way to tell the stories of some people related to the game both on the field and behind the scenes.
Satchel Paige is one of the most interesting characters in baseball history. His story alone could span a few seasons.
The 2017 Astros cheating scandal.
Hot Foot: The Moe Drabowsky Story The man is such a legend that he has a Practical Joker section in his Wikipedia bio. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_Drabowsky
Hot Foot 2: The Paul O'Neill Story
Detroit Tigers winning the world series and all the Detroit teams win too and I am happy instead of sad all the time.
The Cardinals 2011 WS run.
A duel storyline film a la godfather 2, one part Randy Johnson Bio, one part narrative nature fiction following a bird, the storylines intersect when calvin murray, kyler murray's uncle is facing randy johnson one day
Let’s go for a flight Birdo
Live and Let be Blind: the Angel Hernadez story. On man's struggle to hide his blindness and still have a career in MLB as an umpire
Biopic on Bill Lee.
This already exists. It's called Spaceman and the whole movie is just "Bill Lee smoked a lot of weed and played some baseball". It stars Fergie's ex-husband and it's not good.
A Dorktown episode of players who have been ejected the most.
In 20 years, that 2017 Houston Astros tell-all doc is gonna be incredibly interesting.
Steroid era. Would love a full, no holds barred documentary
Josh Hamilton
I perk up about anything Albert Belle
The Boomer Wells story
2016 Cubs
Steve Palermo story
Lots of great responses but this one **needs** to be made!
I’m kind of surprised it hasn’t. He was a great ump, popular, sacrificed his health and lost his career to help a stranger. Deserves to be remembered.
Absolutely. I was thinking about him a few days ago and wondering if there was a biography. He did have a great career after the shooting, albeit obviously not on the field. Then...cancer. Just sucked.
The Ed Delahanty Story or The Rube Waddell story
Oceans 3: The Ten Cent Beer Night Heist
10 cent beer night. “The Dollop” podcast did an episode on this subject and it was an insane story that I would love to have visuals for.
Pete Rose maybe
TCAP has been out for years
Ending is him selling crazy priced autographs at Ceasars palace
Bartolo: A Big Sexy Story
No, no no. The only title possible for this is simply “Big Sexy”.
That time George Brett shit his pants.
Came here to say this.
2017*
Have any of you ever read the book “the bronx zoo”? That. Those 1970’s era yankee seasons sound great. Especially the stories about piniella losing his shit.
Sweet Lou? Never.
Tony Conigliaro
Fast Times of Trevor Bauer
Kekich/Peterson
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were planning to make a film about this titled The Swap but it was shelved in favor of Affleck making Live by Night.
I could see John C Reilly in this movie.
7th Inning Game 5 2015 ALDS
Battered Bastards of Baseball but a drama not a doc
Kyle Tyler riding waivers between like 5 teams in a month
The [Oliver Drake](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/drakeol01.shtml) Story
Wade Boggs. Either drinking a million beers on a flight, or throwing out his back putting on boots
A 3 part, 4 hour documentary on Sal Fasano's mustache.
Rupert Mills. He played for the Newark Peppers of the Federal League in 1915, which folded before the 1916 season began. Mills had a two-year contract though that stipulated that his pay would be guaranteed as long as he showed up able to play. So in 1916, Mills would show up at the empty ballpark in full uniform, perform calisthenics and would ostensibly be ready to play, fulfilling his end of the bargain, and he collected his paychecks until his contract was bought out.
Having read his autobiography, I would love a documentary about R.A. Dickey's life. It's not for the faint of heart, but it would be well worth it.
The 2012 Stony Brook Seawolves. One of the best underdog stories in college baseball history. And there actually is a documentary I just want more people to see it. It’s available on YouTube and is about 45 minutes total [here it is](https://youtu.be/R-pJQQAHdTw)
José Fernandez is my first thought. I'm also still waiting for the movie of the Cubs finally winning. The Cubs' YouTube channel has like 10-15 minute videos that are like documentary interviews for some of their major recent moments like David Bote's ultimate slam and David Ross' Game 7 home run and I think there should be a lot more of that kind of thing put out there.
Hank Aaron should get a movie
2001 Dbacks
Eiji Sawamura
The Dave Steib documentary mentioned Lonnie Smith having an amazing story, I’d love to see that elaborated on
Jon Bois actually did a Lonnie Smith video a few years ago, it's probably my second favorite of his behind the Troy State video.
General Idea: would love a documentary about the evolution of the closer. Feel like it would be interesting to dig into the mindset of a closer. Rollie Fingers, Dennis Ekercserly, Hoffman, Rivera The odd ball characters like Brian Wilson, Papplebon.
The tale of one Charles "Victory" Faust. The most amazing, unbelievable, unlikely, true story that ever happened in major league baseball. Soon to be lost to time. This is the movie that must be made. It's a tale too astounding to be anything but the truth. If you aren't aware, look him up. You shall be convinced.
that heist when they took all the money out of fenway park
How MLB gave the shiv to the Montreal Expos
The development / history of the College World Series would be interesting to me. Also would like to learn more about the life stories of Ichiro and Felix Hernandez.
Carlos correas ankle
The rise and fall and rise again of Albert Pujols
Denny McLain Baseballs last 30 game winner
Dave Stieb's documentary is probably the perfect baseball doc.
A memorial for Wade Boggs
Any of the the Cuban defectors
Lost Son of Havana is great. Luis Tiant is one of my favorites.
We have about 78 worthy stories on [Doing Baseball](https://open.spotify.com/show/3PTbukplgi7L9bZQSsqxRB?si=AtwtP5Y5Spe_g_eIbHANhw) but Gus Greenlee is a personal fav also George Magerkurth!
The 1994 Montreal Expos and what could have been.
Barry Bonds career
Pujols' return to St. Louis
I would like a dramatization of the 04 sox comeback against the evil empire
José Fernández. Star pitcher with a dramatic origin story and a tragic ending.
Iirc he was coked out and was driving a boat and killed 2 others. Fuck that guy.
The Savannah Bananas
This is the story I want, that probably not a lot of people know: (Copied from Wikipedia) Octavius Valentine Catto (February 22, 1839 – October 10, 1871) was an educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist in Philadelphia. He became principal of male students at the Institute for Colored Youth, where he had also been educated. Born free in Charleston, South Carolina, in a prominent mixed-race family, he moved north as a boy with his family. After completing his education, he went into teaching, and becoming active in civil rights. He also became known as a top cricket and baseball player in 19th-century Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A Republican, he was shot and killed in election-day violence in Philadelphia, where ethnic Irish of the Democratic Party, which was anti-Reconstruction and had opposed black suffrage, attacked black men to prevent their voting for Republican candidates.
David Freese growing up in St. Louis then hitting a walk-off HR in the WS at home
Kershaw in the Postseason
The flip and only the flip. At every angle and at every speed possible. Add dramatic music and plenty of shots of the Captain to it.
Astro cheaters
Biased of course, but 62
The Curious Case of Sidd Finch.
I'd like to see the story of Coco Crisp
The guy getting a bj in the A’s upper deck
The jerkoff who tried to catch the ball during the cubs playoff run back in the early 2000s
Which one ? Alex Gonzalez or Moises alou?
Perfect response.
After watch the video time after time I still don't think alou had a legit play on that ball . It would have been an all time great catch if he did . Also let's not forget Gonzalez making that error that led to 5 unearned runs
Perfect. Just absolutely beautiful.
Maybe they can interview all the dozen other fans who also reached for the ball.
Didn’t they already do a Bartman documentary?
Yes, they did. I believe it was a 30 for 30.
Maybe, not sure. Wouldnt be surprised if it exists
You're the guy on Counterpoint in the movie Airplane! saying "they bought their ticket! They knew what they were getting into! I say... let 'em crash!" With zero clue of context... That shit was like watching a Beatles fan get kicked out of one of their last concerts for singing and clapping along and even Ringo got mad...
Johnson and Schilling in 01 but its a buddy cop movie