RF - Shoeless Joe Jackson - Team#2_The Movies

I love the movie, I won't apologize. By now three team members can claim it as their alma mater. I watched most of it on television the other night (and it takes a lot for me to watch a whole movie in spite of commercial breaks).

There are four moments (at least) that jar me and make shudder and point at the screen. I've already immortalized the first. Here are the other three:

- the aforementioned "brush them away like flies" moment when Terrence Mann waves a paw in front of his face, brushing away the buzzing memories of the collective brain that will buzz in the near future.

- when Moonlight Graham lifts a hand in farewell to the other ballplayers, after this stirring moment. His hand only raises to his third shirt button down, palm open, the beginnings of a salute. But it need rise no farther; it's clear.

- when Terrence Mann is illuminated by the headlights of the VW bus, revealing that he has not been completely forthright, and then revealing like only a few seconds later that he heard the voice say "go the distance" at Fenway too.

- when Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) says to Kevin Costner (Ray Kinsella), "No, Ray, it was you," suggesting what only an old ghost ballplayer would know which is that Kevin Costner built a field and went on a road trip with a writer and did all of that to ease his own pain, or something to that effect.

Lineup - The Movies

C - John Kinsella
1B - Jack Elliot
2B - Ken Burns
3B - Roger Dorn
SS - Nicky Rogan
LF - Terence Mann
CF - Kelly Leak
RF - Shoeless Joe Jackson

SP - Bugs "Baseball Bugs" Bunny
RP -

Manager -