Legendary Pictures announced that Chadwick Boseman, who has appeared on “Justified,” “Fringe” and “Castle,” will play Dodger baseball great Jackie Robinson and will be joined by Harrison Ford to play Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers GM who with Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball in 1947. [...]
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Coinciding with the 2011 World Series, A&E Home Entertainment and Major League Baseball have assembled an impressive presentation of 10 exceptional and iconic games on DVD – BASEBALL’S GREATEST GAMES that include the clutch performances of players like Carlton Fisk, Bill Mazeroski and Derek Jeter. [...] At the start of this season I had one team from the 2010 World Series returning to the Fall Classic. The Giants. While I missed that, look for the other team, the Rangers, to win their first title in its 50 year history as they take on the St. Louis Cardinals beginning Wednesday in the 107th Fall Classic. [...] Using both traditional portrait angles and innovative looks at the players, Charles Conlon captured the soul of baseball taking over thirty-thousand photographs from 1904 to 1942. Over 200 hundred of his most celebrated appear in his latest book- “The Big Show: Charles Conlan’s Golden Age Baseball Photographs”, a follow up to Baseball’s Golden Age which esteemed author Roger Angell of The New Yorker called “the best book of baseball photographs ever published”. [...] From humble beginnings in 1961 when they started out in such places as Los Angeles’ Wrigley Field, the Angels franchise celebrates its 50th anniversary with two DVD titles. [...] After a few roster changes, Sony Pictures’ baseball film, Moneyball heads into the box office game led by Brad Pitt as the marquee player. Based on a true story, Pitt portrays Billy Beane, a former ballplayer who never met expectations before switching to the business side of the sport as the general manager of the Oakland A’s. Heading into the 2002 season, he faces a daunting situation: his small-market Oakland A’s have lost their star players (again) to big market clubs (and their enormous salaries) and is left to rebuild his team and compete with a third of their payroll. [...] The 1991 world series had it all – stellar defensive play; savvy moves by both managers; Kirby Puckett pumping his fist as he circled the bases after his 11th-inning home run off Charlie Leibrandt to win Game 6, and Veteran Jack Morris caps it with an extraordinary Game 7 pitching performance against the relentless Braves with a 10 inning masterpiece in a game that had only one run. [...] They swing from both sides of the plate. They maximize the time to see the pitch. They get a head start to first base. They come from many different positions (even catcher, Ted Simmons). [...] The legendary ballplayer is in play at Legendary Pictures which announced they are developing a film based on Jackie Robinson who broke major league baseball’s color barrier in 1947. [...] Lists and debates, a long-standing component of sports media, continues with the release of an all-new 3 hour DVD from Major League Baseball Productions and A&E Home Entertainment -PRIME 9: MLB HEROICS [...] |
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