![]() ![]() Baseball ended up treating Japanese culture with respect, The Mexican baseball league and the people of Mexico are treated as an enormous joke that isn’t even funny. If you don’t like reading about such things, just go ahead and skip down to the next paragraph. The problems with this movie are multitudinous. ![]() Hernandez and Saberhagen both make demands for money that, in retrospect, make me wonder if too much money was dedicated to bringing in big-league stars for this movie instead of on the writing. Bobby Murcer, Steve Garvey, Tom Kelly, Reggie Smith, Bob Tewksbury, Ozzie Smith, Ken Brett, and Bret Saberhagen all appeared as themselves in the movie. ![]() The movie did bring in a lot of real major league talent, though. Michael Rapaport appears as Tommy Lacy at the very beginning of the movie before going on to do much better things. They just fill in holes and deliver lines to keep the plot, such as it is, moving. Lane Smith plays Yankees’ GM Ron Wilson and Dianne Wiest plays psychiatrist Dr. And, yeah, that’s the role he plays, here, too.Īnd.that’s basically it. At this point in his career, he was still only allowed to play roles in which he came from an “uncivilized” place and had to be taught how to interact with society. While he’s down there he accidentally bumps into Steve Nebraska, played by Brendan Fraser before he’d hit it big as an action star, much less had his career derailed by injuries. The GM gets mad and sends Al to a farther part of Mexico than anyone has ever sent scouts before. But at the beginning of the film, he convinces the GM to draft a guy who ends up panicking and throwing up on the mound when it comes time to make his major league debut. Al is a scout who is willing to say or do anything if it will help him get a talented player onto the roster of the Yankees, the team he works for. The star of the movie is Albert Brooks as the titular scout, Al Percolo. So far as I can tell, there are no characters in this film so much as archetypes. This movie has the same problem, only worse. If you remember my review of Bull Durham, you’ll recall that one of my disappointments with the film was a lack of focus on character development. I’m not even 100% convinced that The Scout is a movie if we’re being honest. Unfortunately for The Scout, that last thing is all they have in common. But even if you didn’t, all you need to know is that the movie, while charming and fun in a lot of ways, has no idea how the sport of baseball or even reality works. Hopefully, you read my review of another 1994 baseball movie, Angels in the Outfield. I am forced to assume that the baseball strike temporarily (and retroactively, since movies premiered in 1994 would have been written and filmed before 1994) caused everyone to forget what the heck the sport of baseball even was. During his years with the Cardinals, he saw many of baseball's greats, including Cal Ripken, Jnr., Ozzie Smith and Willie McGhee, and shared numerous colorful stories about his experiences.There was something about 1994. During those years, most of which Tony LaRussa managed the team, Kevin was working as the team's batboy for the epic home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa in 1998, and for the Cardinal's pennant race in 2000. Louis Cardinals from the 1995 season (following baseball's disastrous strike year of 1994), until he graduated from St. Kevin Corbin worked as a batboy for the St. Take me back to the Oral History landing page. Springfield African-American History Foundation. ![]()
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