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Nathan Johnston's avatar

Drove past this place just a few weeks ago. I have never stopped, but I guess I should one day.

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Jeremy Burgess's avatar

Oh man! Has the film set been preserved like a museum or something?

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Nathan Johnston's avatar

I believe parts have been and in recent years they have tried to do better. They played a MLB game there a few years back.

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Jeremy Burgess's avatar

Oh I forgot they did that game! Man I bet that was cool. Lots of folks hearing voices.

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Nellie Beckett's avatar

What *is* it with the intersection of baseball movies and English majors? Definitely the most literary and cinematic sport. (See also, Bull Durham, in which Susan Sarandon is an English professor at the community college in Durham when she’s not a minor league groupie.)

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Jeremy Burgess's avatar

I wrote about Bull Durham for this very newsletter and I forgot that detail about Sarandon's character. 😂 You're right though, I think it's the most literary sport. Could have something to do with the notion that a baseball game could, in theory, last forever?

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Stephen Smith's avatar

Further add to this that the author W.P. Kinsella was an English professor at the University of Lethbridge. His short stories on baseball and his First Nations stories about Frank and Silas are wonderful reads.

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Jeremy Burgess's avatar

I didn't realize that! It all makes sense.

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Abigail Oswald's avatar

"An English major myself, I was instantly determined to focus today’s piece on this throwaway factoid even if it meant reverse-engineering the rest of the narrative to fit my predetermined framework. (Which is a very English major thing to do.)" Relatable 😂

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Jeremy Burgess's avatar

I know you've been there a time or two. 😂 English majors unite!

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Audi Barnes's avatar

Fun fact: I'm 90% sure this was the first movie I ever watched that wasn't animated because it lived on top of the filing cabinet that held our VHS collection rather than it. I don't think I actually liked the movie all that much but I always had a strange compulsion to watch it and saw it several times in my youth. Could be that it only required me to pull up a chair to stand on rather than heave a heavy metal drawer open, but it could also be ✨the voices✨

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Jeremy Burgess's avatar

Oh man, I can picture that filing cabinet. You totally hear the voices too (except when they say "build it" they mean the Brasfield & Gorrie website).

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Audi Barnes's avatar

how dare you remind me of my job during not-job hours

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