Last year, I made up a set of virtual football cards featuring football characters from the movies. Just in time for the baseball playoffs, I created this set of cards with baseball movie characters. I love movies and I love baseball, so this was a fun post to put together.
LET'S PLAY BALL!
Roy Hobbs - Right Field - New York Knights - The Natural (1984)
Played by Robert Redford
1940 Play Ball card
Marla Hooch - Second Base - Rockford Peaches - A League of Their Own (1992)
Played by Megan Cavanagh
1944 Centennial Flour card
Remington (Roogie) Rigsby - Pitcher - Brooklyn Dodgers - Roogie's Bump (1954)
Played by Robert Marriott
1955 Bowman card
Kelly Leak - Center Field - Chico's Bail Bonds Bears - The Bad News Bears (1976)
Played by Jackie Earle Haley
1977 Hostess card
Bingo Long - Pitcher - Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings -
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976)
Played by Billy Dee Williams
1976 Topps card
Mitch Kramer - Pitcher - Braves - Dazed and Confused (1993)
Played by Wiley Wiggins
1977 Topps card
Thurman - Second Base - Baseball Furies - The Warriors (1979)
Played by Jerry Hewitt
1980 Topps card
Monty Brewster - Pitcher - Hackensack Bulls - Brewster's Millions (1985)
Played by Richard Pryor
1986 Topps card
Ebby (Nuke) LaLoosh - Pitcher - Durham Bulls - Bull Durham (1988)
Played by Tim Robbins
1989 Star card
Willy Mays Hayes - Center Field - Cleveland Indians - Major League (1989)
Played by Wesley Snipes
1990 Upper Deck card
-----Bonus card-----
Bud Abbott from the "Who's on First?" routine as seen in The Naughty Nineties from 1945.
brilliant... hey batter... batter, sa'wing batter.
ReplyDeleteI love these! Also, holy crap, jinx on making home made trading cards! One of us owes the other a soda pop...
ReplyDeleteJeremy - Thanks! Cameron's baseball chatter is music to my ears!
ReplyDeleteShawn - Thanks! You with the non-sports and me with the movie sports! More virtual cards the merrier!
Holy crap, these are amazing. Great idea. I love baseball movies.
ReplyDeleteI didn't make cards but I selected an all-star team of movie baseball players.
http://blog.paxholley.net/2012/04/05/i-field-a-fantasy-baseball-team-of-movie-ball-players/
At some point I hoped to do the same with basketball and football.
Really, really well done, my friend.
Pax
Paxton - Thanks! They were fun to make and I'm planning on making basketball and hockey cards too! Looks like you have quite the reel all-star team. Great choices!
ReplyDeleteVery well done, I like your style. You should do more custom cards! I did a similar movie baseball card blog:
ReplyDeletehttp://tjdio.blogspot.com/2014/08/baseball-cards-of-fictional-ballplayers.html