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1. #IS RISE OF THE REDS 1.87 STILL BEING MADE MOVIE#
2. #IS RISE OF THE REDS 1.87 STILL BEING MADE FULL#
3. #IS RISE OF THE REDS 1.87 STILL BEING MADE PROFESSIONAL#
4. #IS RISE OF THE REDS 1.87 STILL BEING MADE SERIES#

Maybe now is the time for Tom Hanks to say, “There’s no politics in baseball.” Listen to the Silent Majority roar gladly and argue heatedly…but about balls and strikes. So even today, the fans are back, the stadiums are getting packed. We remember it to remind us when times were good, so as not to fret when times turn bad. Memories are still made of Ted Williams’s swing, and of Willie Mays’s over-the-shoulders catch.Īsk any son or daughter what it was like tossing ball with Dad in the backyard what memories he shared, what nostalgia he instilled.īaseball is a game of nostalgia. There remains something magical about Opening Day, and every day where the game is being played somewhere, everywhere in America, from the sandlots to the stadiums. We can use a lift, and there is no better place to start than at the ballpark.

So too for the present, for a nation stumbling in the dark. The game endured, even with rosters depleted after hundreds of major leaguers joined the WW2 fight, among them Bob Feller, Hank Greenberg, and Ted Williams. The nation, he declared, needed the game for morale. There is something special, something uniquely American, about the crisp sound of a bat hitting a ball that is being sent 400 feet into the bleachers.

#IS RISE OF THE REDS 1.87 STILL BEING MADE FULL#

FDR insisted on a full schedule even after Pearl Harbor. Nothing says America so much as baseball. There are so many other distractions, especially for the young.īut there is only one national pastime, and that is baseball.

#IS RISE OF THE REDS 1.87 STILL BEING MADE PROFESSIONAL#

So it had been since 1881, when (with a few variations of the name) the Reds were baseball’s first professional team.Įvery year since then, it seems, experts come along to say that baseball won’t last. “We were the Reds before they were the Reds,” they wisely acknowledged, and moved the name back to the Reds. The folks who owned the Cincinnati Reds in the 1950s changed the team name to Redlegs in 1953 to avoid being mistaken for communists. To this day, the Dodgers will always be Brooklyn, and that’s the thing about baseball. For them, and most New Yorkers, such a team does not exist. In Brooklyn, people never say the LA Dodgers. Two years later, Walter O’Malley moved the Dodgers out of Brooklyn and into LA, and everywhere in Brooklyn, it still hurts. One chance, one year, is all we ask, and often, all we get. As we say it here, later in the book, that flash of greatness is within all of us. Sometimes a person gets one chance to rise and shine, only one moment, one year to achieve everlasting glory, and so it was with Johnny Podres, who was never top stuff, until 1955, when he rose to the occasion, pitching a complete game shutout against the lords of baseball. Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese.įor the Yankees…Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford. Yes, 1955, finally, the Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Yankees in seven games…for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the likes of Jackie Robinson. Riding a classic Johnny Podres performance from the mound, the Brooklyn Dodgers did the impossible.īut that’s the thing about baseball. (Robinson joined April 15, 1947.)īut then came that “next year,” 1955.

#IS RISE OF THE REDS 1.87 STILL BEING MADE SERIES#

The Brooklyn Dodgers lost to those Yankees four times in nine years, in one World Series after another…1947, 1949, 1952, 1953. That’s the thing about baseball it’s a game of promise, hope and redemption, which can come at any time, the next batter, the next inning, the next game.įrom out of Brooklyn came the never-give-up expression “wait till next year.” The Brooklyn Dodgers fielded some great teams in the 1940s and 1950s.

#IS RISE OF THE REDS 1.87 STILL BEING MADE MOVIE#

But not today.īut “there’s no crying in baseball” – from the Tom Hanks 1992 movie “A League of their Own.” Kids stop slurping their ice creams, their eyes fixed imploringly on the batter, who was built for these moments, and who delivers on his promise more often than not when he is going good…even as near as yesterday.