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Month: May 2023

  • May 26, 2023May 26, 2023

The Batter’s Eye: Bang the Drum Slowly

Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty in Bang the Drum Slowly

Learning more about baseball has taught me about the essential relationship between the pitcher and the catcher. Bang the Drum Slowly is definitely about that.

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  • May 19, 2023July 31, 2023

The Batter’s Eye: Damn Yankees

Tab Hunter and Gwen Verdon in Damn Yankees

Another good way to win at baseball is to sell your soul to the devil. Based on the Broadway musical, Damn Yankees is about a Washington Senators fan, Joe who would do anything for the team to win.

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  • May 12, 2023May 19, 2023

The Batter’s Eye: Rhubarb

A still from Rhubarb

An eccentric millionaire, Thaddeus J. Banner leaves his fortune and holdings — including a baseball team — to his cat, Rhubarb. Yes, Rhubarb is about a cat that owns a baseball team.

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  • May 5, 2023May 5, 2023

The Batter’s Eye: Angels in the Outfield

Janet Leigh, Donna Corcoran and Paul Douglas in Angels in the Outfield

Guffy McGovern is the cranky, foul-mouthed manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who are facing a bad losing streak. An angel promises him the team will start winning if Guffy cleans up his act (and mouth). With the help of a kind-hearted reporter, Jennifer, and a cute orphan, Bridget, Guffy learns the true meaning of baseball and of life.

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  • Thunderbolts*, 2025
  • Colossal, 2016
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1969
  • The Ballad of Wallis Island, 2025
  • The Wizard of Oz, 1939

The Batter’s Eye

  • The Batter’s Eye: Reggie
  • The Batter’s Eye: Hardball: The Girls of Summer
  • The Batter’s Eye: Weeds on Fire
  • The Batter’s Eye: Again
  • The Batter’s Eye: The Battered Bastards of Baseball
  • The Batter’s Eye: 42
  • The Batter’s Eye: How Do You Know
  • The Batter’s Eye: City Without Baseball
  • The Batter’s Eye: If the Sun Rose in the West
  • The Batter’s Eye: A League of Their Own
  • The Batter’s Eye: Major League
  • The Batter’s Eye: Field of Dreams
  • The Batter’s Eye: Eight Men Out
  • The Batter’s Eye: Bull Durham
  • The Batter’s Eye: Lee Jang-ho’s Baseball Team
  • The Batter’s Eye: The Natural
  • The Batter’s Eye: The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
  • The Batter’s Eye: Bad News Bears
  • The Batter’s Eye: Bang the Drum Slowly
  • The Batter’s Eye: Damn Yankees
  • The Batter’s Eye: Rhubarb
  • The Batter’s Eye: Angels in the Outfield
  • The Batter’s Eye: The Jackie Robinson Story
  • The Batter’s Eye: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  • The Batter’s Eye: It Happens Every Spring
  • The Batter’s Eye: The Pride of the Yankees
  • The Batter’s Eye: Up the River
Ai Yazawa manga & a cool T-shirt. I'm going to see how much I have left in me for NYC for the rest of the day. Fort Tryon Park, The Cloisters & then the Hilma af Klint exhibit at MoMA. That was focused on her botanical paintings, which are lovely, but I like her abstract stuff better. Still, I'm glad I got to see it. Forgive my sweaty face and frizzy hair. It's humid and I climbed 10,000 stairs to get here but I finally saw these in person! Worth it! Cabaret was amazing. More thoughts later. I hope Orville Peck does more theater. Off to NYC. One of my gifts is randomly finding four-leaf clovers without really trying. Or in this case, a five-leaf clover. It's 1975 night! No real reason for this. We'll just pretend 1975 wasn't 50 years ago or anything so we don't feel old. -The Cure:  Standing on the Beach: The Singles Madonna - Madonna
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