Baseball Goes To The Movies: Trivia

[Teach]

1. In what movie did Gary Cooper deliver Lou Gehrig’s legendary: “Today, I consider myself to be the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”

2. “If you build it, he will come.” Name the movie.

3. Name my former student, who became a movie star, who played the role of Lyra Williams in “Eight Men Out”.

4. In what movie was the Abbot and Costello's routine: "Who's on first?" first performed?

5. From what movie did this quote come?: "I shot the wrong rabbit."

6. In what movie did former president Ronald Reagan play Grover Cleveland Alexander?

7. In what baseball movie was this quote made?: “Say, boy – does you do this constantly?”

8. “If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t be where you are today." From what baseball movie was this quote taken?

9. From what movie does this quote come?: “...but I’m sure it does mean that I’m good at pitching the baseball that I get in the major league, mama.”

10. In this film, there was an anachronism at the end of the movie. When the Negro League vs Major League All-Stars were playing (1940s), the flagpole displayed a 50-star flag. Alaska and Hawaii wouldn't come into the Union for over ten years. Name the movie.

[Johnny V]

1. Pride of the Yankees
2. Field of Dreams
4. The Naughty 90's
6. The Winning Team
10. Soul of the Game.

The others I do not know or cannot hazard a guess.

[Ocala Mike]

No. 4 is tricky. They performed a shortened version of "Who's on First" in a 1940 film, "One Night in the Tropics."

[Ocala Mike]

No. 3 is Nancy Travis.

[Overlay]

5. The Stratton Story (1949)
7. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
8. Fear Strikes Out (1957)(based on the career of Norman Bates...er, I mean, Jimmy Piersall)

[Teach]

#5 "The Stratton Story" (1949) that starred Jimmy Stewart as pitcher Monte Stratton who lost a leg in a hunting accident.

#9 "Roogie's Bump" (1954). Appearing in the movie as themselves:
Roy Campanella, Billy Loes, Carl Erskine and Russ Meyer.

[Johnny V]

There was an enjoyable movie that I cannot recall the name of but Edward G. Robinson was running the NY Giants training camp for prospective young rookies. In the cast were some major league ballplayers. It is worth watching.

[Teach]

Johnny V,

It was called "Big Leaguer" (1953).