What baseball player would you like to see and think would make a great movie?

[SAllen2556]

From a selfish Tiger fan's perspective, I'd like to see a movie about Mickey Cochrane and the story of him coming to the Tigers and leading them to their first modern day world series title. I've read that the stress he put himself under was tremendous. Then in 1937 he was hit in the head by a pitch and it nearly killed him. Supposedly, he was never the same person or ball player after that. His downward spiral after that incident seems quite tragic, and sad.

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by SAllen2556

From a selfish Tiger fan's perspective, I'd like to see a movie about Mickey Cochrane and the story of him coming to the Tigers and leading them to their first modern day world series title. I've read that the stress he put himself under was tremendous. Then in 1937 he was hit in the head by a pitch and it nearly killed him. Supposedly, he was never the same person or ball player after that. His downward spiral after that incident seems quite tragic, and sad.

I own this image of that tragic event taken as it happened with the bat still falling.



It wasn't only this tragic moment that sent him in a spiral, though, it was also the war and the death of his son on D-Day.


I would love to see a more general movie of the Negro leagues. As a focus they could use many great players. Maybe Satchel Paige would be good since he had such a long career.

I would also love to see a beginning of Baseball movie. Because I am in St. Louis they could focus on Chris Von Der Ahe and his St. Louis Browns and his turning the game of Base ball into the business we see now (including theme nights and selling beer at the games).

[Joshchisox08]

Originally Posted by SAllen2556

From a selfish Tiger fan's perspective, I'd like to see a movie about Mickey Cochrane and the story of him coming to the Tigers and leading them to their first modern day world series title. I've read that the stress he put himself under was tremendous. Then in 1937 he was hit in the head by a pitch and it nearly killed him. Supposedly, he was never the same person or ball player after that. His downward spiral after that incident seems quite tragic, and sad.

I wouldn't mind seeing a movie on Cochrane! I'm pretty sure it would probably be pretty low budget though.

I can't imagine anyone biting at the idea of a player who was never a defenitive superstar player.

Having a movie based off of a great catcher would be awesome. I'm unaware of much of Cochranes life other than the fact that Ty supported him after baseball in some form or another. I would definitely like to see that movie!

[esd10]

A movie that I would see is the 1869 cincy red stockings from the beginning to when they where defeated through the perspective of harry wright and george wright.

[Wihawk]

Ted Williams would be the main character of a movie I'd love to see.

Having just completed a book on the man, very few baseball biographies measure up to Jimmy Claxton. A good portion of his career was spent in Roslyn, Washington which has been the location of several TV series (Northern Exposure), and movies. In almost suspended animation the town looks very similar to the way it looked in 1920's.

[clydepepper]

Jim Creighton

King Kelly

Ted Williams

Tony Conigliaro

Hank Aaron

Sidd Finch

[CW]

First one that came to mind was Clemente.

also...

Mark Fidrych

Rube Waddell

Walter Johnson

Kirby Puckett

[RTK]

Satchel Paige