Have you ever seen sports props in the background of a movie?

[CarltonHendricks]

Spotted a Willie Mosconie exhibition poster in the background of the Hustler with Paul Newman and Jackie GLeason...I picked up the same poster last May at Brimfield....Also there was a trophy case in the background one of the pool halls.




At May 2011 Brimfield

[2dueces]

Not sports props but I watched "Arsonic and Old Lace" for the 20th time. Best comedy of all time starring Cary Grant. In the very beginning of the movie there is a quick shot of a real baseball game of the Brooklyn Dodgers at home. Not sure if the game is from 43 or 44 but the movie dated 1944. If you've never seen it, watch what a comedy is really suppose to be. Not the childish, boorish things they make today that they call comedy. Sorry for the slightly off topic post. Back to your regular scheduled program.

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by 2dueces

Not sports props but I watched "Arsonic and Old Lace" for the 20th time. Best comedy of all time starring Cary Grant. In the very beginning of the movie there is a quick shot of a real baseball game of the Brooklyn Dodgers at home. Not sure if the game is from 43 or 44 but the movie dated 1944. If you've never seen it, watch what a comedy is really suppose to be. Not the childish, boorish things they make today that they call comedy. Sorry for the slightly off topic post. Back to your regular scheduled program.

It's now 2nd in my Netflix queue...behind season 1 of Wiseguy!

[travrosty]

not a movie but a tv show. an episode of seinfeld, where jerry gives away his knicks tickets, and kramer comes up with the idea of making your own pizza pie, jerry has a baseball glove with a ball inside mounted on the wall above his computer.

also cheers obviously had a bunch of memorabilia in sams office.

[batsballsbases]

Funny just finished watching Going My Way (1944) With Bing Crosby. In the movie Bing wares a nice St, Louis Browns Cap and Warm up jacket that he says The Boys Gave him! Bing plays a priest and is trying to get a choir together and uses the cap and jacket thru the movie.

[Duluth Eskimo]

Originally Posted by CarltonHendricks

Spotted a Willie Mosconie exhibition poster in the background of the Hustler with Paul Newman and Jackie GLeason...I picked up the same poster last May at Brimfield....Also there was a trophy case in the background one of the pool halls.




At May 2011 Brimfield

The Hustler could be one of the greatest sports movies of all time.
I like how Mosconi himself is the person racking up the balls in the big match between "Fast Eddie" and "Minnesota Fats". If you listen close, Gleason calls him, "Willie". Classic cinema. Btw, was there a find of that poster as I have seen it many times in the past. I saw its not dated in the advertising date area.

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by Duluth Eskimo

The Hustler could be one of the greatest sports movies of all time.
I like how Mosconi himself is the person racking up the balls in the big match between "Fast Eddie" and "Minnesota Fats". If you listen close, Gleason calls him, "Willie". Classic cinema. Btw, was there a find of that poster as I have seen it many times in the past. I saw its not dated in the advertising date area.

Duluth, Reproductions abound...the real ones have fold lines and are scarce...the repos are pretty easy to spot

[Matt Felix]

This is currenty on the bay as a buy it now.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WILLIE-MOSCO...item3cc9fa36f4

It has, in red below the date and time line, "Read Masconi on Pocket Billiards."

Could this be a later addition or somthing that made it on some posters and not others? It looks like the phrase appears on the poster in the movie.

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by Matt Felix

This is currenty on the bay as a buy it now.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WILLIE-MOSCO...item3cc9fa36f4

It has, in red below the date and time line, "Read Masconi on Pocket Billiards."

Could this be a later addition or somthing that made it on some posters and not others? It looks like the phrase appears on the poster in the movie.

Mat, I checked that out...looks completly legit...I feel confident it's original...heck it has a LOA from Hunt Auctions...listing said the seller had 3...I emailed him and asked:

"Would you know how many of these there were total from the estate? May I ask did you buy them all?"

Guy wrote back:
"We purchased a group of 10, as I remember there were (2) groups of 10, so 20 total"

I'm confident mine is real because of the faint age toning and folds...the one in the listing has folds and an LOA....BUY!!

http://www.sportsantiques.com/pg5brimstory.htm
I got mine at Brimfield....I bought a Bill Tilden tennis match poster from a guy for like $600.00 as I recall....later I came back to look at it since he was holding it after I paid for it....and he had the Mosconi out...and I was all over it...said he forgot he had it and put it out after I left...think I gave $300.00...read the whole account in the link above

[2dueces]

At the end of Sweet Home Alabama there is an old Piedmont cigarette ad on the stairs as Jake comes down. The ad prolly measures 36"x 30".

[Tom Hufford]

Trouble With The Curve, starring Clint Eastwood as an aging baseball scout, won't be released until next week. I haven't seen the film yet (obviously), but have seen the preview several times, and see some very familiar photos.

The movie was filmed in and around Atlanta, with a lot of shots in Turner Field and in the Braves' offices. When the Braves moved into Turner Field in 1997 and opened their Hall of Fame and Museum, I loaned the museum numerous player photos which they copied and have used in displays at the museum and around the ballpark. (That's not as strange as it sounds - not a lot of material survived the moves from Boston to Milwaukee to Atlanta, and they had photos of Spahn and Mathews from Milwaukee but not Boston, etc.).

So, when I saw the previews, with some shots in the Braves' offices, I sat up and thought - "Hey, there's my pictures!" I'm looking forward to seeing the movie next week - I just regret that I was out of town while they were doing the filming, I'd love to have been an extra in the crowd shots, or whatever!