Footer:I guess I loved the James Earl Jones portion of the movie and that masked a lot of the other cheesy elements. Randhawa:James Earl Jones'baseball speech is iconic. Browne:James Earl Jones was tremendous, especially when he was being nasty to Ray at first. Castrovince:It's just too ...
James Earl Jones, the highly decorated actor behind the voices of Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mufasa in The Lion King, in addition to countless other film and TV roles, passed away this morning at the age of 93. It didn't take long at all for the tributes to start pour...
The other stat that is team-result based is WS (Win Shares) as developed by the godfather of modern statistical analysis, Bill James. While trying to describe the formula is impossible (James wrote an entire book on the topic in 2002), it comes down to a system where each game a team ...
It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again." - James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams (1989) "Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by Babe) Ruth hit got smaller quicker." -Walter Johnson in Ken Burns Baseball...
The “people will come” speech is one of Jones’ finest moments in his wide oeuvre of roles in the theater and on film. appearances. Baseball fans memorized it word for word. It is one of those scenes that gives you goosebumps every time you see it. ...
Jonathan Eig opened his keynote with an excerpt from James Earl Jones’ famousField of Dreamsmonologue, with a call to keep pushing back on the Great Sport Myth and other forms of historical amnesia. As someone who reads, writes, and teaches about baseball, I’d like to think that people...
Nominated for three Oscars including Best Picture, the first of Kevin Costner’s back-to-back baseball movies in 1988 and 1989, Field of Dreams holds up better than Bull Durham because of Ray Liotta and James Earl Jones, not its innate hokeyness of its misguided magical realist sentimentality...
Facing hard-throwing Ben Casparius, UConn's ace, is no treat. Just ask sophomore Kyler Fedko. Fedko has batted against his talented teammate several times during baseball practice at Elliot Ballpark i...
Few movies fill the heart with wonder as well asField of Dreams, and a moment that best illustrates this is Terence Mann’s powerful speech reassuring Ray Kinsella that his plan will work and “people will come” to Iowa to experience the phenomenon. It’s in pretty much every sports movie...
This story of ex-Negro League baseball players who decide to barnstorm the U.S. with the goal of entertaining audiences (think Harlem Globetrotters) was co-produced by Motown exec Berry Gordy. It stars Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, and James Earl Jones, and likeA League of Their Own...