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mako88sb · 08-01-13, 03:16 PM

Title says it all. Of course a lot of them fall into that category but for me, the standout is the baseball movie "61*". I'm not a huge baseball fan, pretty well limiting my viewing to the post season play but I knew enough that Roger Maris held the home runs hit in a single season record until of course 1998 when Mark McGwire broke it. What I didn't know was how much more difficult were the circumstances that Roger played under. My goodness. Your own fans booing you because if anybody were to beat Ruths record, it should be Mickey Mantle, not somebody from North Dakota. Mostly negative support from the media and death threat letters to him and his family on top of all that. He was so stressed that his hair was starting to fall out and he was getting hives. For him to accomplish what he did says a lot about the type of man he was and it was great to see that he and Mickey were good friends throughout the home-run race. For those who don't know, the asterisk was an indication that Maris did not accomplish breaking Babe Ruths record in the same amount of games that The Babe played due to the extended 162 game season that came out that year. Sadly, it wasn't removed until after Roger's death.

Also in regards to Mickey Mantle there was one scene were Mickey pretty well hit a home-run one handed due to a pulled forearm muscle. It's one of those scenes were you wonder if it happened that way or was it something added for dramatics. Well it turns out that in fact, he actually hit two home-runs that day so one of the rare instances when the reality trumped what was put to film. It's funny fact that Thomas Jane who portrays Mickey never played baseball and lied his ass off to persuades Billy Crystal to give him the part.

So what's the movie/movies you feel you learned something from?

08-01-13, 03:16 PM	#1
mako88sb XO Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Calgary, Canada Posts: 423 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Movies that taught you something you didn't know. Title says it all. Of course a lot of them fall into that category but for me, the standout is the baseball movie "61*". I'm not a huge baseball fan, pretty well limiting my viewing to the post season play but I knew enough that Roger Maris held the home runs hit in a single season record until of course 1998 when Mark McGwire broke it. What I didn't know was how much more difficult were the circumstances that Roger played under. My goodness. Your own fans booing you because if anybody were to beat Ruths record, it should be Mickey Mantle, not somebody from North Dakota. Mostly negative support from the media and death threat letters to him and his family on top of all that. He was so stressed that his hair was starting to fall out and he was getting hives. For him to accomplish what he did says a lot about the type of man he was and it was great to see that he and Mickey were good friends throughout the home-run race. For those who don't know, the asterisk was an indication that Maris did not accomplish breaking Babe Ruths record in the same amount of games that The Babe played due to the extended 162 game season that came out that year. Sadly, it wasn't removed until after Roger's death. Also in regards to Mickey Mantle there was one scene were Mickey pretty well hit a home-run one handed due to a pulled forearm muscle. It's one of those scenes were you wonder if it happened that way or was it something added for dramatics. Well it turns out that in fact, he actually hit two home-runs that day so one of the rare instances when the reality trumped what was put to film. It's funny fact that Thomas Jane who portrays Mickey never played baseball and lied his ass off to persuades Billy Crystal to give him the part. So what's the movie/movies you feel you learned something from?