{"id":119,"date":"2008-03-27T11:18:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T18:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=119"},"modified":"2008-03-27T11:18:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T18:18:28","slug":"best-baseball-movie-ever-dont-delay-vote-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/03\/27\/best-baseball-movie-ever-dont-delay-vote-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Best baseball movie ever?  Don&#8217;t delay, vote today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mlb.com\/mlb\/images\/news\/entertainment\/movie_madness\/img_reel2.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"87\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"189\" \/>MLB.com says, &#8220;It&#8217;s March, time for madness and brackets and&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlb.com\/mlb\/news\/entertainment\/movie_madness\/\">baseball movies<\/a>!&#8221; Fans can choose &#8220;the best baseball flick ever&#8221; from 64 possibilities in four categories &#8212; Comedy, Drama, Old School and Left Field.<\/p>\n<p>My brother&#8217;s movie, <em>Little Big League<\/em>, is in &#8220;Left Field&#8221;, up against <em>The Hank Greenberg Story<\/em> in the first round, and then either Ken Burns&#8217; <em>Baseball<\/em> or <em>The Bronx Is Burning<\/em> in round 2.  Tough bracket; pity he didn&#8217;t draw <em>Sandlot 2<\/em>.  Still, <em>Little Big League<\/em> has a lot of fans; what kid doesn&#8217;t dream of inheriting a baseball team?  So it&#8217;ll probably come down to demographics: will the youth vote turn out?<\/p>\n<p>Voting closes March 27 &#8230; that&#8217;s today!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlb.com\/mlb\/news\/entertainment\/movie_madness\/\">What are you waiting for?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\">Update<\/font>, March 28: Field of Dreams beat Major League in the championship; The Natural and Pride of the Yankees rounded out the final four.   Alas we can&#8217;t find the results for individual brackets, so no idea if <em>Little Big League<\/em> made it to the Sweet Sixteen or even Elite Eight before its Cinderalla story came to an end &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLB.com says, &#8220;It&#8217;s March, time for madness and brackets and&#8230; baseball movies!&#8221; Fans can choose &#8220;the best baseball flick ever&#8221; from 64 possibilities in four categories &#8212; Comedy, Drama, Old School and Left Field. My brother&#8217;s movie, Little Big League, is in &#8220;Left Field&#8221;, up against The Hank Greenberg Story in the first round, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[169,226],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-personal","tag-gregory-k","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}