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The Best In The World Pack by Drake
The Best In The World Pack by Drake
2019 | Hip-hop, Rap
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Money In The Grave by Drake

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"Sometimes you just turn up with your teammates, and baseball is such a melting pot of different cultures, you get exposed to all kind of new music, weather it's from latin teammates, guys who like country music, hip hop, it's kind of whatever throughout the day."

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Cry Pretty by Carrie Underwood
Cry Pretty by Carrie Underwood
2018 | Country

Southbound by Carrie Underwood

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"Sometimes you just turn up with your teammates, and baseball is such a melting pot of different cultures, you get exposed to all kind of new music, weather it's from latin teammates, guys who like country music, hip hop, it's kind of whatever throughout the day."

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Muito Calor by Ozuna & Anitta
Muito Calor by Ozuna & Anitta
2019 | Dance
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Muito Calor by Ozuna & Anitta

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"Sometimes you just turn up with your teammates, and baseball is such a melting pot of different cultures, you get exposed to all kind of new music, weather it's from latin teammates, guys who like country music, hip hop, it's kind of whatever throughout the day."

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The Big Day by Chance The Rapper
The Big Day by Chance The Rapper
2019 | Hip-hop
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"Sometimes you just turn up with your teammates, and baseball is such a melting pot of different cultures, you get exposed to all kind of new music, weather it's from latin teammates, guys who like country music, hip hop, it's kind of whatever throughout the day."

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Mr. Baseball (1992)
Mr. Baseball (1992)
1992 | Comedy
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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This movie had the potential to be exceptional, but fell a bit short for me. Unneeded use of profanity (I'm no prude, but it was generally completely not necessary and out of place altogether when used) took away from one of the first feature film performances in the storied career of Dennis Haysbert.

Unfortunately, around the time this film was introduced there were several different movies attempting to portray an East meets West narrative, and most of them whiffed, including Mr. Baseball.

I'm a huge baseball fan so I went into this with the predisposition in the positive. Too bad Selleck and Co. couldn't maintain that.
  
The Proposal (The Proposition, #2)
The Proposal (The Proposition, #2)
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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"It starts with a proposal in front of 45,000 people at Dodger Stadium. But it’s not exactly love and baseball for Nikole (who says no!!!), and as she’s chased out of the stadium by live camera crews, she’s saved by a couple… of siblings… find out what happens next!"

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Darren (1599 KP) rated 42 (2013) in Movies

Jun 20, 2019  
42 (2013)
42 (2013)
2013 | Drama
9
8.7 (6 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Story: 42 starts with the history of baseball and how after World War II there was 400 players in the MLB and they were all white, the black players had their own league until 1947 when the number dropped to 399. Branch Rickey (Ford) wants to bring the first black man to the major leagues for the Brooklyn Dodgers against everything the world at the time suggests, that player is Jackie Robinson (Boseman).

Jackie must start in a feeder team and must put aside the segregation issues that is still going through America, Jackie and his wife Rachel (Beharie) must show they have the thick skin to deal with the abuse from the crowd, other players attitude and prejudices going through America to become a trailblazer for the African American Baseball players.

 

Thoughts on 42

 

Characters – Looking at the characters we are looking at real people this time and one Jackie Robinson who would stand up for what he believed in while making his name on the baseball field, he becomes the trailblazer given the chance to become the first black major league baseball player defining all the segregation problems going through America. Branch Rickey was a bible loving owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers who wants to make a difference in the game giving Jackie a chance to change the game so he could be owning a victorious team. Rachel is Jackie’s wife that stands by him through the discrimination he experiences.

Performance – Chadwick Boseman is fantastic in this role showing that he was going to be a huge name in the future. Harrison Ford gives us one of his best performances of his elder career that is outside his known franchises, with Nicole Beharie doing well with the character she has to work with.

Story – The story of Jackie Robinson is the stuff of legends on America, the trailblazer for African America baseball players fight on and off the field against the discrimination he faces to become the star of the season. We get to see how the country of America was so far behind the times with their equality that is still happening without being as serious as it once was. This is an important history lesson if you are a fan of baseball, sport and history in general.

Biography/Sports – Jackie Robinson is an icon of the sport of baseball, this shows how he fought off everything to become that icon.

Settings – Each setting shows us the different worlds that Jackie must walk into with different opinions on the difference in race.

Scene of the Movie – The team standing up for Robinson against ben Chapman.

That Moment That Annoyed Me – I don’t understand baseball.

Final Thoughts – When you look at sports biopics you will always see an icon born and this shows just how Jackie Robinson became the legend the game knows and is a must watch.

 

Overall: Must watch for sports fans.

https://moviesreview101.com/2019/05/27/42-2013/
  
A League of Their Own (1992)
A League of Their Own (1992)
1992 | Comedy, Drama, Family

"When I grew up, grandma would say, “Why do you like this movie so much?” And I would say, “Because I am Kit Keller. You don’t understand, like I am Kit.” It was very influential, and I saw it when I was four or five. Must have been really, really young. And I just remember, it made it seem normal that women could play baseball. I absolutely loved Lori Petty, like Lori Petty was me. I related to her in so many ways. I played baseball, I played softball. And, yeah, I even made a costume, a Halloween costume, for myself one year of the Rockford Peaches. It was just an amazing movie."

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Robert Greene recommended Salesman (1969) in Movies (curated)

 
Salesman (1969)
Salesman (1969)
1969 | Documentary
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Movie Favorite

"Nothing can prepare a young cinephile for the thrill of Direct Cinema. What you’re expecting to see (voice-over, explanation, facts, message) is replaced with plain-note observation of the human creature, which is the most dramatic and psychologically charged thing. Salesman is the uncle who gave me my first baseball mitt."

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A League of Their Own (1992)
A League of Their Own (1992)
1992 | Comedy, Drama, Family
Tom hanks (2 more)
Geena Davis
Madonna
I must have seen this movie so many times and still like it. a movie about a all female baseball team during world war 2 it works as a movie on so many levels the acting the script and surprised me Madonna acting which was good. Overall thumbs up