AstroEric Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 I haven't heard back from Boone and he hasn't posted in a few weeks. Taking this in mind, as well as the description of his project as one where Donald Trump and Eminem would take the field, I feel safe in starting a new thread. Should he come forward with objections, we can deal with them civilly. Here's my plan. I already composed a roster of adult male fictional baseball players from movie and, in one instance, television. I've been working on collecting portraits for them and, with the exception of one, either have them or have access to them. Here's the roster: 1B - Jack Elliot ( Tom Selleck - Mr. Baseball) 2B - Dennis Ryan (Frank Sinatra - Take Me Out to the Ballgame) 3B - Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen - Major League) SS - Joe Hardy (Tab Hunter - Damn Yankees) LF - Isuro Tanaka (Takaaki Ishibashi - Major League) CF - Willie Mays Hayes (Wesley Snipes - Major League) RF - Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford - The Natural) C - Crash Davis (Kevin Costner - Bull Durham) DH - Pedro Cerrano (Dennis Haysbert - Major League) P - Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh (Tim Robbins - Bull Durham) P - Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner - For the Love of the Game) P - Steve Nebraska (Brendan Fraser - The Scout) P - Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams - The Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Something or Another) P - Henry "Author" Wiggen (Michael Moriarty - Bang the Drum Slowly) LRP - Sam "May Day" Malone (Ted Danson - Cheers) LRP - Montgomery Brewster (Richard Pryor - Brewster's Millions) MRP - Chet Steadman (Gary Busey - Rookie of the Year) MRP - Mel Clark (Tony Danza - Angels in the Outfield) CP - Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn (Charlie Sheen - Major League) C - Jake Taylor (Tom Berenger - Mr. Baseball) C - Bruce Pearson (Robert DeNiro - Bang the Drum Slowly) Util - The Whammer (Joe Don Baker - The Natural) 1B - Stan Ross (Bernie Mac - Mr. 3000) OF - Barry Bo...Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes - The Fan) I'm going to start tonight with setting up the roster. I will first be using stats from players whom the fictional characters were based on, i.e. Bobby Rayburn = Barry Bonds The Whammer = Babe Ruth Billy Chapel = David Cone Bingo Long = Satchel Paige Roy Hobbs = Eddie Waitkus (maybe) Nuke LaLoosh = Steve Dalkowski Dennis Ryan = Johnny Evers Crash Davis = Crash Davis (maybe) And some that I think resemble other players in real life, i.e. Joe Hardy = Mickey Mantle Mel Clark = John Franco Isuro Tanaka = So Taguchi ...And I'd be hapy to take arguments and suggestions from the floor. I think they should wear the uniforms of the previous PCL league team The Hollywood Stars, although I don't know what stadium should be their home. I'm guessing that I'd set it up for them to replace one of the Heroes and Legends teams. Any other ideas? Contributions? People willing to make cyberfaces? --Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YVR_Mike Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Mayday Malone should be #16. The picture of Sam hanging on the bar is actually a picture of Jim Lonborg who pitched for the Red Sox in the 60's and early 70's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krawhitham Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 what about Darryl Palmer & Moose Granger from The Slugger's Wife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krawhitham Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 I'm going to start tonight with setting up the roster. I will first be using stats from players whom the fictional characters were based on, i.e. Roy Hobbs = Eddie Waitkus (maybe) you can not use Eddie's stats for Hobbs Eddie had only 24 HRs in 11 season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krawhitham Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page3/story...lmovies/battery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHatter Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Here's a team I might like to see. I can do some further research into what real life players might fit with these characters, though some initial thoughts are listed below. Thanks, -Hatter C - Crash Davis (Kevin Costner - Bull Durham) <A.J. Hinch> 1B - Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks - A League of Their Own) <Jimmy Foxx> 2B - Dennis Ryan (Frank Sinatra - Take Me Out to the Ballgame) 3B - Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen - Major League) <Tom Herr> SS - Joe Hardy (Tab Hunter - Damn Yankees) LF - Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes - The Fan) <Barry Bonds> CF - Willie Mays Hayes (Wesley Snipes - Major League) <Kenny Lofton> RF - Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford - The Natural) <Mickey Mantle> DH - Pedro Cerrano (Dennis Haysbert - Major League) <Rob Deer> P - Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh (Tim Robbins - Bull Durham) <Rich Harden> P - Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner - For the Love of the Game) <Nolan Ryan> P - Cecil Cantrell (William L. Petersen - Long Gone) <Jesse Orosco> P - Saul Hellman (Bruce Bennett - Angels in the Outfield [1951]) <Bert Blyleven> P - Steve Nebraska (Brendan Fraser - The Scout) LRP - Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams - The Bingo Long Traveling All Stars) LRP - Montgomery Brewster (Richard Pryor - Brewster's Millions) MRP - Sam Malone (Ted Danson - Cheers) <John Wasdin> MRP - Henry Wiggen (Michael Moriarty - Bang the Drum Slowly) CP - Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn (Charlie Sheen - Major League) <Mitch Williams> C - Jack Parkman (David Keith - Major League) <Mike Piazza> C - Jake Taylor (Tom Berenger - Mr. Baseball) <Pat Borders> OF - Juan Primo (Benicio Del Toro - The Fan) <Jim Rice> UTIL - Billy Young (Roy Scheider - Tiger Town) <Al Kaline> OF - Isuro Tanaka (Takaaki Ishibashi - Major League) <So Taguchi> 1B - Jack Elliot ( Tom Selleck - Mr. Baseball) <Dave Kingman> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroEric Posted November 10, 2005 Author Share Posted November 10, 2005 The trouble with some of these is that I wouldn't be able to find portraits and/or proper cyberface material for them, esp. Bruce Bennett. Maybe what I'll do is make a core lineup, then release player packs later that you can switch out, complete with portrait and cyberface and file for MVPEdit. And I still say base Chapel on David Cone, who pitched a perfect game at Yankee Stadium and who, according to the Yes Network at least, Costner based parts of the character on. --Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHatter Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Good call! I can see Cone on Chapel. I just threw together some quick ideas. Some others, like Foxx for Dugan might work... but we would have to push the stats back a bit, because no way Dugan puts up Hall of Fame numbers. My guess is he comes close, but his career was cut short due to alcoholism. As far as a stadium goes, I'd say Ebbets Field or the Polo Grounds would work. I'm not good with cyber faces, but I can try to pull together some base stats for each player once we decide on who we want to model them after. -Hatter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroEric Posted November 10, 2005 Author Share Posted November 10, 2005 Or, if you're familiar with MVPEdit, we could just import them from the ol' Lahman Database. Simple as pie. I think that we should play in this stadium. Unfortunately, I think I've seen on the forum that it would be impossible to build. --Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHatter Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Yup - that would definitaly be awesome. By the way... if we are to create the way thes eplayers look... wouldn't Crash Davis and Billy Chapel be twins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krawhitham Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Yup - that would definitaly be awesome. By the way... if we are to create the way thes eplayers look... wouldn't Crash Davis and Billy Chapel be twins?so would Willie Mays Hayes and Bobby Rayburn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy6finger Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 so would Willie Mays Hayes and Bobby Rayburn unless you used the guy (Omar Epps?) that played him in the 2nd movie...LOL Note: He looked totally different in both movies though... Mays = prejuiced Bonds Rayburn = afterjuiced Bonds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHatter Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Would we also have to choose a manager for this team? I would suggest Pop Fisher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroEric Posted November 11, 2005 Author Share Posted November 11, 2005 That was my thought exactly, Wolfy. We'd try, of course, in making the cyberfaces and body types, to show age and weight gain between the two. --Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy6finger Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Would we also have to choose a manager for this team? I would suggest Pop Fisher. Absolutely Jimmy Dugan falls in this category, too (but I think they are playing him at 1B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroEric Posted November 11, 2005 Author Share Posted November 11, 2005 P.S. I'd gotten my heart set on Morris Buttermaker. --Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHatter Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 I only suggested Dugan at 1b. I don't know what position he supposedly played in the bigs. Just know he looks like a 1B/OF type to me. Would rather have him playing than coaching, though... wouldn't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy6finger Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Another name I thought of was...Clu Hayward (Yankees' 1B/DH from the 1st Major League movie) Another coach to ponder is Lou Brown, Major League Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHatter Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Buttermaker... good call as long as it's the Walter Matthau Buttermaker and not Billy Bob Thorton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AstroEric Posted November 16, 2005 Author Share Posted November 16, 2005 I'm going to put this mod on hold for a little bit guys, as I've been adopted as Fuzz's assistant in putting out the ModSquad/Forum Fanatics teams. But hopefully I'll get something done on it by the end of the month. --Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwinginSoriano Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 Henry Rowengarnter threw 100 mph for the Cubs in a bad kids movie, does he count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroEric Posted November 16, 2005 Author Share Posted November 16, 2005 The problem with kids is that...well, they're kids. You could use the skinny body type, I guess, but part of me feels (1) it just wouldn't look right and (2) that it would be unfair, due to the lack of female body types, to leave out Tatum O'Neal from the original Bad News Bears. Although I guess I'm already leaving out Dotty Henson from A League of Their Own. --Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boone292929 Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 sorry i haven't been on in in a while caught up in school work any help needed let me know ........ good luck -Boone292929 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHatter Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 OK - Anyone ready to start working on this? I can begin to pull together some assumed statistics for players once we've finalized a roster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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