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Post by mscott59 on Dec 7, 2015 12:11:37 GMT -5
"Jesus, I like him very much, but he no help with curveball." I love that movie. I must have seen it at least twenty times by now. Of course, back then the Indian came to Winter Haven to have spring training and made it more fun for us. in additional to being a funny movie, i thought it much more realistic in terms of the actors playing ball than the normal sports movie. plus, when it came out circa '90, the tribe was still on the tail end of its 30 year slump with no signs of success beyond what we saw inside the theatre. a few years later, it actually started happening on the field. |
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Post by canefan on Dec 7, 2015 17:50:55 GMT -5
"Jesus, I like him very much, but he no help with curveball." I love that movie. I must have seen it at least twenty times by now. Of course, back then the Indian came to Winter Haven to have spring training and made it more fun for us. in additional to being a funny movie, i thought it much more realistic in terms of the actors playing ball than the normal sports movie. plus, when it came out circa '90, the tribe was still on the tail end of its 30 year slump with no signs of success beyond what we saw inside the theatre. a few years later, it actually started happening on the field. I think the first year they trained in Winter Haven was 1993. I took care of quite a few of their minor leaguers and, through being on the board of the youth baseball league I also dealt with John Hart quite a bit and Kenny Lofton and Matt Williams coming out to the ball park for clinics. Most of them loved the movie. I think Charlie Manuel was the hitting coach for them back then and he was at our youth league park a lot as his eventual stepson played in our league. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2015 19:40:51 GMT -5
No, but I can hit a 100mph tennis ball.
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Post by daleko on Dec 9, 2015 19:31:36 GMT -5
Lefty. I don't want to be on the first base line if he loses that "bat". |
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Post by daleko on Dec 9, 2015 19:34:09 GMT -5
Back when I actually played the game some, a bunch of us all went to a batting cage and faced 100 mph, working up through the cages from 80.. In the hundred cage, a tiny nick of a foul tip was considered "a hit". It was insane. |
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