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Updated: Solving Another Baseball “Movie Mystery”: What Game Did Harold Lloyd Film for his 1928 Classic “Speedy”?

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Movies, Nostalgia, Yankee Stadium, Yankees, tagged , , , on August 10, 2015 | 9 Comments »

Thanks to the great work of Tom Shieber, a more definitive date has been determined for Babe Ruth’s home run in the classic film Speedy (see here for video). In a post over four years ago, I declared the mystery solved, having deduced that Harold Lloyd filmed Babe Ruth’s 54th home run in the second game of a double header […]

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100 Years of Ronald Reagan and Baseball

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Culture, Hall of Fame, MLB, Movies, Yankees, tagged on February 6, 2011 | 12 Comments »

One hundred years ago in Tampico, Illinois, Ronald Wilson Reagan began an improbable road to the presidency that culminated in one of the most successful political careers in American history. Admittedly, I have a profound admiration for the Gipper, but The Captain’s Blog likes to steer clear of politics, so this centennial tribute will focus […]

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RIP Leslie Nielsen; Comedic Actor Was “Surely” Serious About Baseball

Posted in Baseball, Culture, MLB, Movies, tagged on November 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »

To many baseball fans, Leslie Nielsen, who died yesterday at the age of 84, is better known as “Enrico Palazzo”, the dysfunctional national anthem singer turned home plate umpire that he portrayed in a scene from The Naked Gun. Nielsen’s outrageous parody yielded one most memorable comedic depictions of the game in movie history. However, […]

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Hall of Fame Film Festival to Honor 61* on Anniversary of Maris’ Historic Blast

Posted in Baseball, Culture, Hall of Fame, MLB, Movies on October 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday was the anniversary of the day the Babe hit 60, but October 1 belongs to Roger Maris and 61. Next year will mark the golden anniversary of Maris’ historic blast off the Red Sox Tracy Stallard in 1961, and the Yankees are sure to have something special planned to mark the occasion. In the […]

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