All time favorite references to sports cards in movies, tv, and song
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Number one for me is "50 Mission Cap" by The Tragically Hip off the album "Fully Completely"
Bill Barilko disappeared that summer, he was on a fishing trip
The last goal he ever scored won the leafs the cup
They didn't win another until 1962, the year he was discovered
I stole this from a hockey card, i keep tucked up under my fifty mission cap
I worked it in i worked it in to look like that
It's my fifty mission cap and i worked it in, i worked it in, and i worked it in, to look
like that and i worked it in, to look like that
The card he references is 1991/1992 Pro Set #340. They're Canadian. What can you do, eh?
Bill Barilko disappeared that summer, he was on a fishing trip
The last goal he ever scored won the leafs the cup
They didn't win another until 1962, the year he was discovered
I stole this from a hockey card, i keep tucked up under my fifty mission cap
I worked it in i worked it in to look like that
It's my fifty mission cap and i worked it in, i worked it in, and i worked it in, to look
like that and i worked it in, to look like that
The card he references is 1991/1992 Pro Set #340. They're Canadian. What can you do, eh?
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One of the greatest baseball references in a non-baseball movie is Robert De Niro's (Al Capone) classic baseball instuctional motivational speech about team play in "The Untouchables". But Jack Nicholson's play-by-play of the 1963 World Series in "Cuckoo's Nest" is a real close second.
I knew the Barilko story, just not the song itself.
Spike Lee in the movie "Girl 6"
CLASSIC!!!!
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Spike Lee in the movie "Girl 6"
CLASSIC!!!!
You beat me to it. I'm so happy that is there too. Nothing else explains the attitude of that era as well as that scene. I just wish there was a shot of a forklift with a pallet of 87 topps at costco in the background. That would complete the picture.
Reggie Jackson was the guest star. I think it was 1990, or 1991. Macgyver had to bust a counterfeit baseball card ring.
<< <i>The Wonder Years and a wonderful scene of the boys trading cards. >>
You've been trying to pawn that Don Schwartz off on me for years!
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<< <i>The Wonder Years and a wonderful scene of the boys trading cards. >>
You've been trying to pawn that Don Schwartz off on me for years! >>
I could find that clip, but stumbled across the last scene of the last episode (the music reminds me of The Natural):
Wonder Years -- last clip
<< <i>Does anyone remember the MacGyver episode with baseball cards referenced?
Reggie Jackson was the guest star. I think it was 1990, or 1991. Macgyver had to bust a counterfeit baseball card ring.[/qu
I sure do! I remember the bad guys were trying to counterfiet a 1973 Dwight Evans rookie card....ahhhh the good ol' days lol. And yes the Married W Children episode is a classic. Al had to sell his 'yo Cubs cards to get Peg's barbie back. Ouch! No wonder he formed the group No Ma'am. Remember that haha?
The show Hart to Hart had an entire episode about baseball cards. I believe it was in 1982. It was pretty cheesy, but I was still pretty stoked watching it as a teenager.
The Harts Strike Out 1
The Harts Strike Out 2
The Harts Strike Out 3
The Harts Strike Out 4
<< <i>Silver Spoons - Tommy Lasorda at End of Clip >>
All these shows of memories as a kid/early teenager... MaCgyver, Wonder Years, but Silver Spoons was one of my favorites!! I remember this episode
"Live everyday, don't throw it away"
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<< <i>The Wonder Years and a wonderful scene of the boys trading cards. >>
You've been trying to pawn that Don Schwartz off on me for years! >>
I could find that clip, but stumbled across the last scene of the last episode (the music reminds me of The Natural):
Wonder Years -- last clip >>
I'm in the PO, but I think thus is the episode.
Odd Man Out - Part One
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<< <i>The Wonder Years and a wonderful scene of the boys trading cards. >>
You've been trying to pawn that Don Schwartz off on me for years! >>
I could find that clip, but stumbled across the last scene of the last episode (the music reminds me of The Natural):
Wonder Years -- last clip >>
I'm in the PO, but I think thus is the episode.
Odd Man Out - Part One >>
Yep...4:25 of the clip
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Frasier plays the full grown child of a man who built a bomb shelter under his home (in LA, I think) during the 1950s. Thinking a bomb is on the way, the family (man, wife and young
year old son) enter the bomb shelter and spend something like 30 years with no outside contact. After 30 years they are running low on supplies so Frasier (the now grown boy) emerges to look for supplies bring with him baseball cards from the 1950s to remind him of "home" while he is on his search. He has multiple 1952 & 1953 Mantles, some 1954 Ted Williams and many other icons, all in pristine shape of course.
When he emerges, he finds a "new" world with really weird people, who he assumes are victims of radiation mutations based on theor strange behavior (compared to his being
reared and stuck in the 1950s for more than 30 years). Somehow (can't recall exactly how) he meets a woman who apparently works in a BB card stored and she sees the cards
and helps him sell them (one at a time, as needed) to raise money to buy supplies to bring back to his parents in the bomb shelter.
It was certainly no oscar-winner, but it was great to see some of my favority Topps and Bowman classics being given such an key "role" in a major motion picture
Dave
<< <i>I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Brendan Frasier movie "Blast for the Past".
Frasier plays the full grown child of a man who built a bomb shelter under his home (in LA, I think) during the 1950s. Thinking a bomb is on the way, the family (man, wife and young
year old son) enter the bomb shelter and spend something like 30 years with no outside contact. After 30 years they are running low on supplies so Frasier (the now grown boy) emerges to look for supplies bring with him baseball cards from the 1950s to remind him of "home" while he is on his search. He has multiple 1952 & 1953 Mantles, some 1954 Ted Williams and many other icons, all in pristine shape of course.
When he emerges, he finds a "new" world with really weird people, who he assumes are victims of radiation mutations based on theor strange behavior (compared to his being
reared and stuck in the 1950s for more than 30 years). Somehow (can't recall exactly how) he meets a woman who apparently works in a BB card stored and she sees the cards
and helps him sell them (one at a time, as needed) to raise money to buy supplies to bring back to his parents in the bomb shelter.
It was certainly no oscar-winner, but it was great to see some of my favority Topps and Bowman classics being given such an key "role" in a major motion picture >>
I enjoy that movie....Silverstone is a fox in it. But yeah, the card shop owner tries to buy his Hornsby for dirt cheap, and Silverstone ends up working for Fraiser, taking cards as payment.
Take me back
To a world gone away
Memories
Seem like yesterday"
Song "Old Days" by Chicago
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<< <i>"Baseball cards and birthdays
Take me back
To a world gone away
Memories
Seem like yesterday"
Song "Old Days" by Chicago >>
You guys beat me to it. I also thought of....
Chicago - Old Days
Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
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Great scene when Dillon negotiates everyone's sins down on confession day.
Jeremy
"If you sell baseball cards over the age of twenty, it means you either never get laid or you have a drug problem."
BTW...a really funny book (or audiobook). Don't care for the TV show.
<< <i>"If you sell baseball cards over the age of twenty, it means you either never get laid or you have a drug problem." >>
true dat.
<< <i>Baseball card rap >>
Now thats funny.
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The other was the Groomsmen with Edward Burns, John Leguizamo and Jay Mohr. Mohr and Leguizamo's characters were close friends until Leguizamo stole his '67 Tom Seaver rookie. It's a funny movie.
<< <i>Does anyone remember the Simpsons episode in which Milhouse references (I think) a 1973 Carl Yastrzemski "with the big sideburns" that he was intending to buy at the card shop, before Bart convinced him to use his funds to contribute to the purchase of an expensive comic book instead.....? >>
Haha. Yes, Milhouse wanted to buy "Mutton Chop" Yaz.
<< <i>Does anyone remember the Simpsons episode in which Milhouse references (I think) a 1973 Carl Yastrzemski "with the big sideburns" that he was intending to buy at the card shop, before Bart convinced him to use his funds to contribute to the purchase of an expensive comic book instead.....? >>
Outstanding. The four of them not sleeping in the treehouse for fear someone would leave with "Radioactive Man #1". A wistful Milhouse laments, "All I wanted was a 1972 Carl Yastrzemski with the long side burns."
All time favorite comic store guy dialogue:
Comic Book Guy: And how do you know the bride?
Marge Simpson: I'm her sister! And you?
Comic Book Guy: I bought her pool table on Craig's List. Consider yourself slighted.
There is a short film entitled '92 Skybox Alonzo Mourning Rookie Card. It will be airing at Sundance in January.
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