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1. Which of these things does Crash Davis not believe in?
The Designated Hitter
Hanging Curveball
Soft-core pornography
Small of a Woman's Back
 
2. Arbitrarily discounting the beauty of a man on a horse, which product fills in the blank in this quote from For Love of the Game? "I need a regular guy. Not the guy in the ______ commercials."
Axe
Gillette Fusion
Old Spice
Right Guard
 
3. While not technically a baseball movie, this film is surprisingly America's Pastime-intensive. See if you can place this semi-erotic quote: "I need my bat. I think better with my bat. Where's my bat?"
A Few Good Men
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Untouchables
 
4. When Jimmy Dugan hollered, "There's no crying in baseball!" he was firmly addressing a member of which team?
South Bend Blue Sox
Kenosha Comets
Racine Belles
Rockford Peaches
 
5. Shoeless Joe Jackson told Ray Kinsella that a certain deceased ball player "wanted to play, but none of us could stand the son-of-a-bitch when we were alive, so we told him to stick it!"

Who was the rebuffed player?
Duke Snider
Ty Cobb
Connie Mack
Honus Wagner
 
6. Which member of the Cleveland Indians organization, apparently trying to start a holy war, challenged Pedro Cerrano: "You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?"
Eddie Harris
Roger Dorn
Jake Taylor
Lou Brown
 
7. When asked, "Look, what do you want?" who menacingly answered: "What do I want? I want every time they think of you, they're gonna think of me."
Gil Renard
Bump Bailey
Willie Mays Hays
Eddie Cicotte
 
8. Having broken Wonderboy at the end of The Natural, Roy Hobbs turned to the batboy and said, "Pick me out a winner, _______." What was the name of the boy which completes the quote?
Arnie
Teddy
Bobby
Andy
 
9. "People all say that I've had a bad break. But today, today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth." The wording of Lou Gehrig's quotation was changed a bit from the original as it was intoned by Gary Cooper in which film?
Bang the Drum Slowly
Pride of the Yankees
Damn Yankees
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
 
10. After Nuke LaLoosh struck out 18 while also walking 18, this discussion ensued about his various accomplishments during the game. Finish the list: "In addition, he hit the sportswriter, the public address announcer..."
The bull mascot twice.
and Millie, the broad he nailed in the clubhouse before the game.
The opposing manager, who still wanted to trade for him.
The Umpire twice. He was asking for it, though.
 
11. "I just slid my ticket across the table and I said, 'Sorry, guys, I gotta see about a girl." With these words, Sean Maguire recounted in Good Will Hunting how he passed up a chance to witness first-hand which memorable baseball moment?
Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's home run record
Bobby Thompson's 1951 "Shot Heart Round the World"
Bucky Dent's 1978 home run against the Red Sox
Carlton Fisk's Game 6 home run in 1975
 
12. "You say you can find seven men on the best club that ever took the field willin' to throw the World Series? I find *that* hard to believe." In Eight Men Out, what followed as the reason that the Sox threw the Series?
Never underestimate the power of human weakness.
People look for heroes in all the wrong places.
You never played for Charlie Comiskey.
You would have been one of them.
 
13. Timeless announcer Vin Scully provided this typically eloquent call in For Love of the Game: "Tonight, he will make the fateful walk to the loneliest spot in the world, the pitching mound at Yankee Stadium, to push the sun back into the sky and give us _______."
A few good reasons to believe again
All something to cheer about
The wind once again at our backs
One more day of summer
 
14. "I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the ______ in the World Series." If you know about Jim Belushi's proclivities, you'll be able to identify the team that his character in Taking Care of Business went over the wall for.
Cubs
Yankees
Tigers
Cardinals
 
15. Finish Buck Weaver's line from Eight Men Out: "When the bat meets that ball you can feel that ball just give and you know it is going to go a long way. Damn, if you don't feel like _______."
A million bucks
You could die a happy man
You're going to live forever
You're walking with the sun that day
 
16. What the hell kind of league had Ricky Vaughn been playing, before he joined up with Cleveland in Major League?
None of your damn business
Mexican Cutthroat
California Penal
Sing Sing Varsity
 
17. "And then? And then when I walked down the street, people would've looked and they would've said there goes ______, the best there ever was in this game." The name of which player completes this quote?
Jimmy Morris
Billy Heywood
Roy Hobbs
Nuke Laloosh
 
18. "I love baseball. You know, it doesn't have to mean anything. It's just very beautiful to watch." Which film's title character spoke to baseball's inherent simplicity?
Zelig
Serpico
Patton
Hoffa
 
19. "You play ball like a giiirrrrrrrrl!"
"What did you say?"
"You heard me."
"Tomorrow. Noon, at our field. Be there, buffalo-butt breath."
Count on it, pee-drinking crap-face!"
You'll find this exchange in which film?
Angels in the Outfield
The Sandlot
The Bad News Bears
Hardball
 
20. Crash Davis, to Nuke Laloosh: "Let me see that _______ arm, Meat, because I've already got a good idea about that _____ head of yours."
Thunderbolt-throwing / raindrop-puddle
Million dollar / ten-cent
Filet mignon / dime-store pickle
Laser rocket / Oreo cookie
 
21. Masquerading as Enrico Pallazzo, Frank Drebin butchered The Star Spangled Banner, stammering that there were _______ in the air.
Sword and guns
Blood and frogs
Cats and dogs
Lots of bombs
 
22. Which film features a pitcher who cleverly shuts out the distractions of the crowd by saying, "Clear the mechanism"?
Bull Durham
For Love of the Game
A League of Their Own
Major League
 
23. "It's my eliminator. I've got another pitch. You get a piece of it, I'll let you name it." This...doesn't end well for the pitcher, Rick Vaughn. What does the hitter re-name the pitch?
The Frequent Flier
The Grand Salami
The Masturbator
The Toasted Indian
 
24. Summarizing the feelings of any who knows a bandwagon 2000s New England/Boston fan, a character in this film sagely asks: "You love the Red Sox, but have they ever loved you back?"
Big Fan
Damn Yankees
Fever Pitch
Hardball
 
25. Let's finish up the only way that makes sense. Terence Mann eloquently states the following: "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been..."
Baseball
Change
Pi
Prostitution, the world's oldest profession
 




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