SP - Bugs "Baseball Bugs" Bunny - Team#2_The Movies

Bugs: "Eh, I think I'll puh-plex him wit my Slow Ball."



Pjacks alerted me to this masterpiece of history and baseball with his mysterious, confident work on the subject, which I will link to when it is published. Speaking of confidence, Bugs "Baseball Bugs" Bunny qualifies for every position on the field, that being his omnipresent charge once the teetering, elderly incompetents vacate in the face of a massacre. On the mound, though, he is the king magician. Bugs the pitcher's secret weapon?: the slow ball.

I tried for the last three years of my college baseball career to throw the perfect knuckleball. I found a grip that seemed up to the task (fingernails dug in on the outside curve of the horseshoe), and once or twice I got the ball to waver in flight, creating the sought-after sensation that one's vision is failing them, that the laws of physics have been manipulated. Without any remarkable physical prowess, the knuckler was my chance to amaze and perplex. It was my daydream of choice.

The Middlebury catcher who played ahead of me, his magic trick was endurance beyond what should have been possible, playing both games in a double header in the Florida heat. In high school, my better was a specimen of strength. The ball spun so tightly when he threw it that it would tail away and sink as though it produced its own gravitational urge.

The pro knuckleballers, a well-documented if tiny clan, are the most impressive athletes in the history of sports. They bend physics on every pitch and foil Major League gorillas every day. Compared with that eccentric, tantalizing, horrific task, Tim Burton's body of work looks like Saved By the Bell: The College Years.

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Lineup - The Movies

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

SP - Bugs "Baseball Bugs" Bunny
RP -

Manager -