From Spring Training to Screen Test: Baseball Players Turned Actors: Volume 55 (The SABR Digital Library) - Tapa blanda

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For well over a century, stars and supporting players on baseball diamonds have become stars and supporting players in the movies, on Broadway, in vaudeville and, eventually, on television and in concert halls. After all, ballplayers are celebrities. Whether on the field or the stage, they are in the business of entertaining the masses. Not surprisingly, many showbiz luminaries have become baseball enthusiasts. They have invested their time, money, and expertise to be part of the baseball world as team owners and fans. From Spring Training to Screen Test: Baseball Players Turned Actors includes essays by 43 SABR members that connect baseball and show biz. Not every ballplayer who ever made an appearance on screen or stage is included; to do so would result in a mini-encyclopedia. The purpose here is to offer a representative selection of those who crossed the lines between professional sports and popular entertainment. Included are biographies of selected individuals from the famous (Gene Autry, Joe DiMaggio, Jim Thorpe, Bernie Williams...) to the forgotten (Al Gettel, Lou Stringer, Wally Hebert, Wally Hood...) There are other select topics, from baseball on television shows and in Coca-Cola commercials to Jim Bouton’s casting as “Jim Barton” in his Ball Four TV series and Don Drysdale playing “Don Drysdale” on The Donna Reed Show, Leave It To Beaver, and The Brady Bunch. Those who will relish the privileged peeks at the off-the-field life and times of Mike Donlin and Edward G. Robinson playing Hans Lobert on the big screen in Big Leaguer will surely savor From Spring Training to Screen Test: Baseball Players Turned Actors. MAJOR LEAGUERS  BO BELINSKY, Gregory H. Wolf  JOHNNY BERARDINO, Alan Cohen  BOBBY BONILLA, Mark Souder  CHUCK CONNORS, Charlie Bevis  RON DARLING, Audrey Apfel  JOE DIMAGGIO, Lawrence Baldassaro  MIKE DONLIN, Rob Edelman and Michael Betzold  DON DRYSDALE, Joseph Wancho  MARK FIDRYCH, Richard J. Puerzer  PAT FLAHERTY, Bill Hickman  LEW FONSECA, John Gabcik  STEVE GARVEY, Maxwell Kates  AL GETTEL, Clayton Trutor  GREG GOOSSEN, Rob Edelman  WALLY HEBERT, Gregory H. Wolf  WALLY HOOD, Jay Hurd  RON HOUCK, Phil Williams  REGGIE JACKSON, Ted Leavengood  DEREK JETER, Alan Cohen  WALLY JOYNER, Paul Hofmann  FRANK KELLEHER, Adam Klinker  JOHN KRUK, Seamus Kearney  LEE LACY, Gregory H. Wolf  BILLY LOES, Gregory H. Wolf  CHRISTY MATHEWSON, Eddie Frierson  JOHN MCGRAW, Don Jensen  GEORGE METKOVICH, Bill Nowlin  DON NEWCOMBE, Russell A. Bergtold  ERNIE ORSATTI, Lawrence Baldassaro  ART PASSARELLA, Rob Edelman  JERRY PRIDDY, Warren Corbett  BEANS REARDON, Bob LeMoine  BABE RUTH, Allan Wood  BRET SABERHAGEN, Alan Cohen  ZIGGY SEARS (UMPIRE), Bruce Bumbalough  SAMMY SOSA, Eric Hanauer  MONTY STRATTON, Gary Sarnoff  LOU STRINGER, Bill Nowlin  TONY TARASCO, Will Osgood  JIM THORPE, Don Jensen  BOB UECKER, Eric Aron  PETE VUCKOVICH, Rory Costello  RUBE WADDELL, Dan O’Brien  LEON WAGNER, Jay Berman  EDGAR “BLUE” WASHINGTON, Mark V. Perkins  BERNIE WILLIAMS, Rob Edelman  TODD ZEILE, Jon Springer  FILMS, FANS, AND TELEVISION  GENE AUTRY, Warren Corbett  RON SHELTON: ON COBB, BULL DURHAM, AND BASEBALL-ON-SCREEN, Rob Edelman  THOMAS TULL: ON DARK KNIGHTS, HANGOVERS, AND BASEBALL, Rob Edelman  DE WOLF HOPPER, DIG, BELL, AND THE FIVE A’S, Rob Edelman  HBO MOVIE 61*, Andy Strasberg  BIG LEAGUER: A SMALL-TIME FILM WITH BIG-TIME PERSONALITIES, Frederick C. Bush  BALL FOUR, THE TELEVISION SERIES: AHEAD OF ITS TIME? Ron Briley  BASEBALL AND COCA-COLA: A MATCH MADE IN AMERICA, Rob Edelman  BASEBALL AND CLASSIC TELEVISION: A BRIEF OVERVIEW, Rob Edelman