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And you watched all these without being quarantined?

To heap on the irony, I’ve always suspected that a big part of the reason they went after Castillo was due to the inability of Jackie Bradley to hit at that stage of his career. Of course, Castillo’s biggest problem was Dombrowski never liked him. While most definitely would have made an MLB team and possibly started. There are plenty of worse outfielders in MLB...

... shown with his appearances in both Firld of Dreams andThe Benchwarmers. Although in The Benchwarmers, he is only credited as Darth Vader (voice). Not sure if he is actually in the movie or they just have a clip from Star Wars or what. And no quarantine is long enough to make me watch that movie...

I poked around and James Earl Jones has also been in 4 baseball movies. The Sandlot The Sandlot 2 Field of Dreams The Benchwarmers

I assume David Price is repping the Dodgers...

I saw Gus probably 40 years ago. Never seen any Air Bud movies. Thankfully my daughter never had an interest. Although she did make me watch “The Princess and the Frog” probably about 150 times (not exaggerating, either)...

See? I totally forgot about those movies. So far Haysbert and some guy named Papajohn have 4. Any others with that many or more?

I wanted to do another trivia question about baseball movies, and not an easy one. I figured I’d ask “what actor has appeared in the most baseball movies?” Good question. The problem is, I have no idea what actor has appeared in the most baseball movies. And merely googling it is not much help. But there are probably close to 100 baseball movies out there, and I can’t even name them all let alone review the casts. As far as my cursory research goes, the leader is Dennis Haysbert, with 4 baseball movies (Major League, Major League II, Major League: Back to the Minors, Mr. Baseball). The problem is another actor named Michael Papajohn also appeared in 4 baseball movies (The Babe, Mr. Baseball, Little Big League, For the Love of the Game), and I never heard of him before. I can think of a few actors to do 3 baseball movies, including Kevin Costner (Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, For the Love of the Game), Charlie Sheen (Major League, Major League II, Eight Men Out) and Corbin Bernson (all three Major League movies.) Are there others? Anyone have any idea what actor has appeared in the most baseball movies? Anyone else with three or four that I forgot?

I can confess that I didn’t look. And when I watched it all those years ago it wasn’t the uncut version...

That actually nauseates me...

Character was a mule. Actor was a donkey...

Gus is the clear king. All Star cast along with a Pro Bowl supporting cast. Also a donkey...

Players in MLB don’t crowd around the ball like in other sports. It’s the game most conducive to social distancing. But they might need robot fans...

Why not just televise two kids playing MLB: The Show? That kind of thing is HYUUUUUUUGE in Europe and Asia...

As you are clearly a connoisseur of awful movies where animals play human sports, what are your top 3 in that genre? And why don’t you think “Gus” belongs?

2 correct. The real answer was Field of Dreams, Pride of the Yankees, and Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch. Or was that last one Moneyball? It was the one with Royce Clayton in it...

Also 2 correct. And yes, this does mean "Field of Dreams" is one of the correct answers...

I'd absolutely say in a poll I am not going until a vaccine is developed. But if games were played in front of 5-10,000 fans and social distancing was easy, I'd attend a game...

No more guesses?

2 correct.

A little baseball movie trivia: Without any help from Google, name the only three baseball movies nominated for Best Picture...

1. Any thread I start is public domain. Or, if you're feeling socialist, community property. 2. I'm talking myself out of Berg. The goal of these threads was to name players who achieved fame in other venues. As a spy, fame was deleterious to Berg's success. But the book about him was one of the better baseball bios I've ever read - "The Catcher Was A Spy"

Can we count Moe Berg, MLB catcher and ONI spy?

Kemp is a good one. I think Jim Bunning (Baseball HOF and Senator) is at least Bradley’s equal here. Although Bradley was a Princeton grad, while Bunning only went to Xavier...

It also depends on how we feel about college football players, like Gerald Ford...