by David Krell | Jan 22, 2017 | David Krell
In the 1976 movie The Bad News Bears, Walter Matthau plays Morris Buttermaker, a former minor league ballplayer with the unenviable task of managing a team consisting of loudmouth Little Leaguers. Matthau’s rumpled persona matches the Buttermaker character like...
by David Krell | Sep 26, 2015 | David Krell
Based on the eponymous novel by Paul Hemphill, the 1987 HBO tv-movie Long Gone starred William Petersen, Dermot Mulroney, and Virginia Madsen. Long Gone revolves around the fictional Tampico Stogies, a minor league team in Florida during the late 1950s. At the heart...
