The Pecan Park Eagle

“Listen up, Joe! – How come I missed out on my chance to be be one of the coaches on The Pecan Park Eagle’s 2015 fantasy baseball club?” – William Frawley

This one’s been a long-time coming, but we only got serious about starting and finishing the whole job this morning when some unexpected extra time fell into our “got too much time on my hands anyway” schedule. Here’s a tabular presentation of our first 25-man rostered fantasy “Hollywood Stars” fantasy movie team based upon actors in baseball roles from the 1930s to the present 2015 day,

Only one thing is for sure here. With Tom Hanks from “A League of Their Own,” firmly seated as manager, there will be no crying in baseball among the ranks of our fantasy version of the Hollywood Stars. And Hanks will have the backing of some pretty good coaches. (We had to label each of them in the table as an “ass’t” to keep from adding a character that would have rolled many of the tabular cells into double space and ruining the visual presentation. Our perfectionistic inclinations would not allow it, but we weren’t too happy when we had to settle for the use of “ass’t” just to protect the intgrity of a universally sized cell pattern.)

If you have seen any of these movies, all you have to do to fan your own imaginings on how this club would harmonize or not. just picture each member of the team playing with the ability and social skills they possessed in their various movies – or, in the case of those who portrayed some of the great real ballplayers, how these mixed ingredients might work out in their everyday lives and game experience. – The potential ignition points on explosion are almost too numerous to record.

How do you suppose two ego-oozing and and easily ego-bruised pitchers might respond to each other in a situation in which manager Hanks decided to pull starter Nick LaLoosh in favor of Rickey “Wild Thing” Vaughn, for ecample?

For that matter, how would this coaching staff work out together on a personal basis. If you have seen the movies that featured all the staff as managers or scouts, do we have the makings of good chemistry – or not?

On the positive side, what could a lineup that included Babe Ruth, Roy Hobbs, and Joe Hardy do to the power record books and a club’s hope for a World Series in only a single season together?

Here’s our first and probably only ….  Pecan Park Eagle 25-Man Roster Baseball Movie Team:

Pick a time when your mind is free enough to play with the possibilities you might face as the manager of these Hollywood Stars and please free to share your thoughts or conclusions withe rest of us in the comment section.

Thanks!

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