@@F1Fanatic76A good comeback for those who question whether it should have been mentioned. Is that since Uecker is exactly the same way in real life as an announcer that it didn't need mentioned since it is clearly realistic :)
Let’s give a little credit to long time dodger catcher Steve Yeager who was in the movie and served as their baseball advisor. The dude put the actors through a spring training!
My second favorite bit of trivia is that when the Allstate Guy, Dennis Haysbert, as Pedro Cerrano, hit the big home run in the last game, he really did hit it over the fence. And everyone on the set did go crazy.
Whenever I'm out and about and a religious person tries to hand me a pamphlet or talk to me about their church, I always say: "Ahh, Hey-Soos. I like him very much, but he no help me, hit curveball." The confused look on their faces is amazing!
“The Indians win it!!! The Indians win it!!! OH MY GOD THE INDIANS WIN IT!!!!!!!” Bob uecker was phenomenal here And please do little big league. That movie is so damn underrated
@@Bilski86 that was from a different movie, I think. Shaq wasn't in college until 1989 and Major League was 1988. I think Bob said, "Tomlinson's going to need a Visa to catch that one!" And, "He swings and crushes one towards South America."
@@TeddyKGB12 yeah that was major league 2. Uecker was great in all 3 lol “the winds got this baby oh man it’s carrying and this baby is gone” The other commentator “I’d like to remind everyone we’re in a dome. There is no wind” 😂
Lou Brown was probably the best portrayal of a coach/mgr. in any sports movie. The voice the attitude. He got a lot Bruce Bochy in him. "Alright Vaughn, they tell us you're a pitcher...sure not much of a dresser.. We wear Caps and Sleeves at this level son understood" Fuckin great writing and even better delivery.
Cleveland missed out on a golden opportunity in 2016. They should have had Sheen come out of the bullpen to Wild Thing and throw out the first pitch. That would have been electric!
@georgelanders4271 Lifelong Cubs fan, & I have their season DVD from that year. I still tear up every darned time it gets to the 10th inning of Game 7...I don't know how you can be a fan of the sport & not love how that series played out.
"I saw your wife at the Capri Lounge last night; hell of a dancer you must be very, very proud. That guy she was with? I'm sure he is a close personal friend and all, but what was he doing wearing her panties on his head?" Favorite line of the whole movie🤣
I like the line before he talks about his wife dancing Taylor says to the A's player "Wow big opportunity here time to be a hero." Then starts talking about his wife
Best line of the movie came from Vaughn in the restaurant. "You want me to drag him outside and beat the shit out of him?". It was just prefect timing and done perfectly.
Fun fact - Charlie Sheen was a pitcher for Santa Monica High School and compiled a 40-15 record. He was even scouted by several colleges to play ball but pursued acting instead.
Do a part 2 with even more stuff. Like that catcher talking to the batters, or the general language of the players to each other and the umps, the league salary thing, I feel like there is so much more. Best sports movie ever
Growing up with parents that were Cleveland fans, it really warms my heart to see this kind of love from a major leaguer for a movie I grew up watching on repeat. I have never been a big sports fan, but I love this movie! To really hear what’s realistic vs what’s not brings a smile to my face. Thank you for this!
"Jesus... I like the man... but he no help me hit a curveball." "Are you saying that Jesus can't hit a curveball?" "Come on, guys, don't turn this into a holy war." 🤣😂🤣😂
I remember my grandma had this movie on VHS when I was a kid. One time, I was curious and popped it into the VCR, and I was hooked on every minute of it. I had already fallen in love with baseball due to Mike Piazza and Sammy Sosa in the 90s, but this is the film that made me beg my mom to play little league. I did not look back since. Sure, I didn't get to play in high school or college, yet it's amazing how this film pushed me to keep trying even though I wasn't very good. I thought, hey, if those guys were counted out and found success, maybe I could. Now, when I rewatch the film as an adult, my love for baseball and my grandma truly bubbles up to the surface and makes me feel things I can't explain. It also reminds me that my story underdog story has some success tied to it if I keep trying. Thanks for this video, Trevor! And, of course... thank you, Tata, for buying that tape, you changed my life in more ways than one. Rest in peace 🙏🏽
2:35 - You mentioned the vehicles arriving and the vehicles reflecting the player. However, you failed to mention Willie Mays Hays' vehicle but showed it at 3:41. Willie Mays Hays is driving a VW Bug with some weird Rolls Royce looking crap on the hood. He is trying to be something he is not. And that is exactly what his car is as well. LOVE IT!
One correction, Lou Brown was not the manager of the Mudhens at the beginning of the movie. He was managing a tire store. He mentioned he had been the Toledo manager years before then. The rest of this is just awesome.
@ Yeah, and point of sales for just about every tire store in the country until around 2005 was handled by the store manager. Also, Lou’s name tag states “manager”.
The best part of that movie is the setup scene for the final game. The music revs, Bob Uecker's intro is great, and the crowd noise is absolutely electric. That is 90 seconds of pure building energy.
I've watched the VHS tape of Major League (1989) maybe 100x growing up, it's the perfect baseball movie for me and I fell in love with the sport before my state (AZ) even had a team because of it. Loved this rundown man, instant subscribe.
This is your best video yet and that's a high bar, bud. Your rendition of Ricky Vaughn's entrance is especially magical. DANANA DUH NUH DANANANA. Gold.
The 1989 sports comedy Major League was primarily filmed at Milwaukee County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which stood in for Cleveland Stadium, even though the movie is set in Cleveland. The producers chose Milwaukee because it was cheaper than Cleveland and they couldn't work around the schedules of the Cleveland Indians and Cleveland Browns. The stadium's grandstand interior was similar to Cleveland Stadium's, and the movie also included some exterior shots of Cleveland Stadium, including aerial shots taken during an Indians game. The scoreboard in the stadium even has a sign for WTMJ-TV, the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee.
Cleveland fan. Thanks for explaining that... it always pissed me off. That it was mostly Milwaukee.. but. My time in Milwaukee was like being in Cleveland. Crazy.
I'm watching this on Monday August 12, 2024 (3 AM). Charles Cyphers who played Indians GM (and former Manager) Charlie Donovan sadly passed away last week aged 85. Cyphers was probably best known as Sheriff Leigh Brackett in the Halloween movie series. RIP Charles Cyphers 🪦
You forgot on the play at the end that old man Jake Taylor is able to get the last bit of juice out of his old knees and beat the throw to first. Completing his story arc about “if he had anything left to give”.
If people knew the regime Andre Dawson put himself through before every game in his later years in the Bigs just to play at all, they’d roll their eyes at treacly crap like “one last hurrah” instead of acting like it was the norm.
@@GizmoBeach Andrea Dawson isn’t the only player that ever lived that had an intense workout. Heck, Tom Brady wrote a book about his. Andrea Dawson is def not the NORM! lol. At some point, it’s over no matter how hard you train…..also this is just a movie.
@@TrevorMayBaseballthat part didn’t have anything to do with useless love story. That was an old beat up catcher with bad knees legging out that bunt in pain. If he gets thrown out it’s all over. That scene is perfect.
Its crazy I can go through life for 30+ years wondering what some of my favorite ball players are experiencing in spring training, regular and then finally post season and have it all broken down in a nice 20 minute video. This was legendary, didn't know half of this existed in the game. You should definitely do more of these.
Years ago I was lucky to see you pitch in spring training practices and games and today I am lucky YT recommended your channel. Good luck to you and can’t wait to see what you do next!
Trevor May with a UA-cam channel?! Pretty cool stuff. I do like how you modestly compared yourself to wild thing in terms of his lack of control, but the reality is that you averaged only three walks per nine innings while striking out an average of 10. Pretty damn impressive.. By the way Sheen had some pretty good mechanics in my opinion.
Pinch hitting a washed up left handed batter to face Randy Johnson with two outs in the ninth was as fake as it gets and would have never happened in the major leagues.
Pinch hitting a washed up left handed batter to face Randy Johnson with two outs in the ninth was as fake as it gets and would have never happened in the major leagues.
My wife, her brother, and her mom were extras in this movie. They sat in Milwaukee County Stadium several days to fill up the seats. She has pictures with most of the cast. She said everyone was super nice (especially Dennis Haysbert) except Charlie Sheen.
As a former “never was” your take on routines was SPOT ON! Freaking relatable as hell!!! Loved your take and would LOVE to hear your take on Bull Durham and its take on life in the “bus leagues”
Fun fact: Sheen trained pretty extensively for this role, enough to get his fastball into the mid 80’s. So it’s not movie magic watching him throw - it’s actually him.
Yeah, he prepared for that movie like a lot of big leagers started doing back then- he took steroids. Publicly stated it helped his velocity. Regardless, ol Charlie Estevez out of Santa Monica HS was a pretty decent baseball player already. Unlike Tim Robbins, aka Nuke LaLoosh.
I used to work in an MiLB front office and our club president and I would argue almost daily whether Major League or Bull Durham was the most "baseball" baseball movie. Fantastic breakdown on a phenomenal movie.
Vaughn was a starter later in the season going down the stretch because he was skipped even though it was “his turn in the rotation” for the last game against the Yankees.
Love the mention about guys in the majors having to get their eyes checked and their performance improving after seeing an eye doctor. Just yesterday it came out that Enrique Hernandez (10 year MLB vet) who was slumping earlier this season hard, attributed his recent success due to getting his astigmatism treated with better glasses. It’s crazy to me how it’s not just rookies but veterans who can benefit from this.
Watching this movie now and trying to figure out who the Cleveland Indians are is like listening to Adam Sandler’s “Hanukkah Song” and trying to figure out who the SuperSonics are.
Back in the 1980's downtown Cleveland did look like that with that many people. As a kid I would always love Woolworth's on Euclid Ave (where House of Blues is now) and during Christmas we had Mr. Jingeling and his keys at Higbee's (where Casino is now next to Tower City). Downtown Cleveland died in the late 90's-early 2000's.
One thing I liked that I found out years later, the old vet pitcher Harris, when he is pitching to Cerrano during spring training, is using real baseball signals to the catcher. When they tell him to throw a curve, he moves his glove from arm side to glove side horizontally, the signal the next pitch is a curve. IIRC, he also does it on a fastball too (glove pointed down, then brought up to point at the catcher). A detail very few people would even pick up on, but would actually occur during a throwing session.
Thank you for doing this! It still is one of my favorites and cemented my love of the game. Also Sheen did a lot of his own pitching and was hitting 80’s on the gun!!
Long Gone is one of the top baseball movies of all time. Used to be very hard to find and I believe it was an HBO original. I think he whole thing is on UA-cam now.
#1 favorite movie of all time... Not just of sports movies but ANY movies.. So much so that I got the logo of the baseball with sunglasses and Mohawk tattooed on me the size of an actual baseball.
My 18th birthday present was a Chief Wahoo tattoo on my right arm. 44 and wear it proudly. FUN FACT: Hundreds of compliments from Native Americans. 17 complaints from fellow white people😂😂😂
@@clevelandcbi That is awesome. I had an Indians hat, but it vanished long ago (wore it at the one game I saw at Cleveland Municipal). Did you know the very first shot of Major League is of one of the Guardians on the Hope Memorial Bridge? Quite a coincidence (or it gave the team the idea to change it to that name).
By far the biggest changes would to Willie and Ricky if this movie would be made today. Willie would be a power bat, maybe even a switch hitter who could be encouraged to go deep rather than hit grounders. Ricky would have to be reaching 100 MPH+ ON AVERAGE just to show how crazy his stuff is. Love this movie, loved the review, Trevor. Glad I stumbled across your channel.
My biggest problem with this movie, is there’s no way Taylor bats anywhere near Mays in the lineup. Mays is 1 Taylor is a 8 hole guy at best. But hey great video
Given the team, I could see Taylor being the #3 or #5 hitter. Cirano's clearly batting cleanup, and Dorn's right before him so Dorn's batting #3, which seems about right for a high average singles hitter with some home run power to be in the 3 splot. However that means bad knees catcher is batting #2? That did break immersion for me when that came up. I figured the lineup as Hayes, 2nd Hitter, Dorn, Cirano, Taylor, , 6th hitter, 7th hitter, 8th hitter, Tomlinson (who's established earlier in the same inning as batting right before Hayes, so has to be #9, when he nearly hits out out off the starter and draws out the Yankee's closer)
@@williameasom2936 The movie does actually show Taylor hitting at least one home run during the rally montage. So presumably he's still got some power left in his old bat.
@Seriously_Unserious , okay. The movie still doesn't provide enough evidence to the viewers for them to determine what kind of production he brings to the plate as a hitter though. The original comment is trying to say that there's no way Taylor hits behind Hayes which is why I'm pointing this out.
@@williameasom2936 and if you read my replies, I said him hitting directly behind Hayes IRL would be highly unlikely. I pegged him more as a middle of the order player, slow because of his knees, but still has power and average, relative to the other bats in the lineup.
I remember getting in trouble with my dad when he rented it on VHS and forbid his kid that loves baseball from watching it. I snuck down when he was asleep and he caught me. No way that movie gets rated R today.
Its crazy how when you are just so used to focusing on a tiny ball being flung at mach piss towards you, that suddenly one day you notice everything else is suddenly blurry. Rough.
Can you top the original “Bad News Bears”? “You know it’s against the law to have an open container of liquor in a moving vehicle?” “Yeah, and so is murder, so don’t tempt me.”
BNB (1976) is my all-time favorite baseball movie, but less for the baseball (which are still great) and more for the chracters & theme. At the end of the day, Buttermaker is no different from the other parents until he has that moment where all the kids are staring at him during the final game after he loses his shit. He was using the kids as a vehicle to prop up his own self esteem, too. But in that moment he gets it and it's fucking beautiful. Oh, and I was in Little League in SoCal in 1976 and BNB absolutely nailed what it was like. (Major League #2 & probably League of Their Own #3.)
@@ericbauer9029 - And at the trophy ceremony telling them to take second place and stick it where the Sun don’t shine. The kids will get good of their own volition when the rivalry becomes their own. That, and giving the kids beer at end was priceless. That was 1976. lol
Ricky Vaughn's 96 is a lot more impressive than it looks on the surface. Pitch speed was measured differently back then than it is now. An 85 mph fastball recorded with a speed gun would equate to 93-95 with the current Statcast method of measuring pitch speed. The speed of the pitch changes drastically depending on where the measurement is taken (at release, near the plate, or somewhere in between). The estimates are that today's measuring standards add 8-10 mph to fastballs clocked with speed guns and JUGS guns. By today's standards that 96 mph fastball would be closer to 104 mph.
Yes. Do you know when they changed where they measured velocity from? I've never found out. Nolan Ryan was said to have thrown around 108 by today's measurement (per the Fastball documentary). I was watching the 1980 MLB All Star Game a ways back and Keith Jackson said in the first inning that JR Richard just threw a slider clocked at 94 (or maybe 93). That would be a triple-digit slider today. JR was effin' scary. RIP.
@@ericbauer9029 It isn't so much that they changed where they measure velocity from. As the guns got better, they could pick up the pitch closer and closer to the release point. The old guns didn't pick up the pitches nearly as quickly. Now they use statcast and have 3 cameras on each pitch so they are really accurate. Baseball America has a really good article on it. I tried to link it but youtube blocked the link. The article name is The Measure of a Fastball Has Changed over the Years. It was published back on Aug 5, 2020.
As a kid I remember thinking how ridiculous it was that Harris was using crisco for his breaking balls, now it just feels like a behind the scenes MLB exposè.😅
Some decades ago, I used to play in a non professional, amateur baseball team in Mexico. And I had a manager that look liked exactly the same as Lou. The same mustache style, speech style. I miss those years!!
This movie is a classic. This was one my favorite movies growing up in the 90s. I had a VHS of this movie and I wore it out lol. I bet i watched it several hundred times. I still like to watch it every few years or so. Now that I've seen your video I'ma have to watch it again 😂
16:56 .... Dude ... ... This had me straight up laughing till I gigglesnorted... And it has been an eternity since I last did that .. I needed that.. thanks a lot 🤘🏽🤘🏽😎
idk if this is true, but there's a rumor that he was able to throw mid-80s during filming. Which makes the speed even more convincing since it's not a dinky little lob that somehow ends up being 100mph.
It’s nice to know guys you look up to as kids and see on tv as adults. Guys who are the same age as you doing some incredible things shoe a human side. I love watching every video you put out there
Bats, they are sick. I cannot hit curveball. Straight ball, I hit it very much 😂. Perfect line for a game Trevor 😂🤣. “Can you break down that last K for us Trevor.” “Well, obviously………(insert players name) his bats are sick.”
What a great sequence of videos you've put together. I've only watched 2 yet you've hit on subjects of interest to any guy that grew up playing baseball with hopes of making it to the Big's. As fun and entertaining as any baseball video or movies I've seen. Congrat's. Can't wait to watch your other videos.
Milwaukeean (movie was filmed here) who knows a few extras and some longtime Brewers/former County Stadium staff, worked at a company (Quad) for a few years whose logo is shown prominently on one of the fans' shirts in the Wild Thing sequence, and loves the film enough to have garnered geekitude level of knowledge about it. Adding some thoughts of interest. Most of the extras were guys who played in high-level Milwaukee adult recreational leagues at a time when those were still really popular, so the baseball looked really good for a reason. Charlie Sheen was a good pitcher in high school. He supposedly trained (and did steroids) to max out his velocity for the film. No, he wasn't actually hitting 101, but I've read his actual velo was over 80, which was good enough velo to bounce around the minors in that time. It's clear in the full-speed victory montage some of his pitches ran up there. I bet some of the strikeouts in that sequence were legit. Corbin Bernsen looked good, too. I read most of Willie Mays Hayes' scenes had to be filmed in slo-mo because Wesley Snipes was actually pretty unathletic at the time, but if so, they made him look good. Dennis Haysbert claims he actually hit a homer when Cerrano ties the deciding game. I dunno if I believe it. Dude was buff, but his swing looks like it lacked follow-through. Obviously Clu Haywood was more than believable as a baseball player because he was played by 1982 AL Cy Young winner Pete Vuckovich. The "Taylor, what are you doing back up here?" sequence between Vuck and Tom Berenger was supposedly not in the script. Director and writer David S. Ward, a Clevelander who wrote the film as a personal message of love to his perennially disappointing team, told Vuck to go up there and "say something a baseball player would say." The result? "How's your wife and my kids?" My only real qualm with the baseball was Chelcie Ross's casting. He nailed the speaking parts, but Harris' throwing motion didn't look like it could get the ball over at anything close to MLB speeds. Also, however old he actually was, he looked age 55. I get he was portraying a Charlie Hough-type grizzled veteran, but if so, explicitly make him a knuckleballer rather than a junkballer. Berenger's play looks wonky, too, but that kinda fits his grizzled, oft-injured character. While Bob Uecker isn't credited as a writer, I think he deeply influenced the film beyond just playing Harry Doyle (and probably coming up with most of his own lines). Like so many of the best comedies, what makes it work is it feels rooted in reality. The Tribe really was that bad for that long. Those archetypes - the quiet power hitter from a Latin American country with a hole in his swing, the quirkily overconfident young player with huge talent but major flaws, the brooding pitcher who needs to harness his ability, the crusty manager, the overpaid has-been, the stingy owner - are ones that feel like they're from every single MLB team, and no one would know that better than Ueck. I even think Monty is based on Uecker's long-time real-life broadcast producer. I can easily envision Ward sitting down with Ueck, who suffered through God knows how many unsuccessful Brewers seasons to that point, and said, "What stew of realistic baseball characters could mix together to be really funny?" I think they came up with these guys and it was perfect because this feels like it could be almost any MLB team in any year of our lifetimes. It's one of the most perfect sports movies. Baseball lends itself to a unique mix of unabashed optimism and frustrated cynicism like no other sport. Bull Durham captures the cynicism best, but I don't think any movie nails the mixture better than Major League. It's a great film.
All very nicely put and appreciate learning more about Major League, thank you! Haysbert was in my softball league (in L.A.) one season: he joined the team that I had recently left (for a better team, which traveled, also). I believe he could have hit one out of County Stadium (but not into the parking lot, of course, a la Cecil). But when he was in our league, he had lost a lot of weight. He really put some size on himself for Major League. Also, Haywood was originally cast as a villian pitcher, but was changed early on -- and I think for the better.
@@ericbauer9029 Thanks, bud. Yeah, one only needs to see Haysbert in other roles, like President Palmer or in Allstate ads, to know he bulked up to play Cerrano. I have no doubt he was big enough (dude's 6'5") or strong enough to hit one out. It's as much knowing he was facing batting practice speed pitching at best, plus, County Stadium wasn't exactly a hitter's park. Nonetheless, getting to be on a softball team with Pedro Cerrano had to be awesome. I'd have to imagine it was a little like that ad with the Little League team that picks Derek Jeter. One story I'd heard, but can't verify the veracity of, was Berenger and Sheen, who were friends from filming Platoon together, would spend nights after filming going out to Milwaukee clubs to pick up ladies together. When it didn't work, they'd supposedly rent out a suburban indoor batting cage place and take hacks deep into the morning. I heard the story from one of the instructors at the cages (the now long gone Mike Hegan's Field of Dreams in Brookfield) where I took hitting classes myself growing up.
@@pfightingpolish I would totally believe that story! I never saw Haysbert play in our league, though. Saw him on the team I just left and went and warmed up with the team I had just joined. It was the Shobiz League in LA so there was a good amount of actors in it. I actually sat next to him at a movie - at Sundance - but didn’t even know it was him. My friend said that’s so and so from (some movie I’d never heard of) and didn’t mention he also played Cerrano until we were back in the hotel room. I about lost my shit when he told me. And it was probably good he waited because I probably wouldn’t have been able to concentrate on the movie.
Lol right of the bat... "there's never been this many people on a roar in Cleveland". My wife and I just visited Cleveland for the first time (loved it!), and we commented how we couldn't understand how empty the streets were!
I may be mistaken, but i believe this was the first time ever to have a closer with a walk out song-- which is now common place in MLB By far my favorite move of all time!
One of my favorite closers of all time, if he'd had a walk out song, it would have been the theme song to the Terminator - as he was Tom Hanke "The Terminator" back when he was with the Blue Jays.
Great video. I am with you…absolutely loved this movie as a kid and watched it with my son last year for the first time. It more than holds up on every level, as a baseball movie and a comedy. It definitely stands the test of time
Classic movie and love your take on the realism. Movie reviews are a dime-a-dozen. You brought something unique. It'd be great to see you do more of these!
One little thing that annoyed me about the remake of "Angels in the Outfield" is that they were supposed to win the pennant, but the big game was the regular-season finale instead of a playoff game. (And this was 1994, when, if there had been a postseason, it would have had a divisional round.)
@JayTemple don't forget that movies are written and shot months in advance of their release, so maybe back in 93 the producers/writers didn't know that mlb would add the divisional round
Such a great film. As a baseball playing kid, this was my favorite movie ever - love the breakdown. The only guy that couldn't quite act out the baseball scenes was Berenger, but fortunately former Dodger Steve Yeager did all the catching scenes, including the collision at home during spring training.
Apparently Charlie Sheen threw a no-hitter in high school. Was a legit good pitcher. In the famous "winning" uh....interview he admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs which allowed him to hit 85 on his fastball. The average velo for a 4 seam fastball in MLB that year was 86.2 mph according to google. So Charlie Sheen had a ML level fastball
I read someplace that on one night of shooting he threw 122 pitches, so he could go for some distance, too. (They went back and counted in the dailies or something I think.)
This was the most enjoyable vid I've seen all year! I would never in a million yrs expect a real MLBer find validity in a comedic parody. Bit of Trivia, fellow Santa Monica High School graduate Charlie Sheen was a dang good pitcher in high school, playing for a school that has many MLB alumni.
How does Trevor May, who wasnt a terrible pitcher, have a UA-cam channel discussing classic baseball movies. And he has less subscribers than 10,000 pilots talking about Top Gun and playing flight sim This is great video and time. Saw you pitch for the Mets a bunch of times, solid stuff. Rotator cuff ruined me but you came back from a bum arm like a champ Keep it up bro
Costner's For the Love of the Game is one of my favorites although I usually FF through the 'other stuff' not pertinent to baseball. I especially like the scenes of him on the mound, chanting his mantra to focus. How does that compare, Trevor May? Have I seen Major League? Ohyeah, over and over - "Just a bit outside!"
I didnt expect a tyler clippard reference! But I did appreciate it! Lifelong dbacks fan and I bought one if his authenticated autographed ball last year at the team yardsale. Good dude!
This is one of those rare comedies that I just love so damn much that I cannot get through it a single time without crying. All time favorite movie ever for me and I've seen a lot of movies. On that note I'm going to throw out the name of a little known baseball movie that you might also remember from childhood but probably forgot about as everybody else did. The man from Left Field starring Burt Reynolds and Reba McEntire
Funny goof at the end when they win, the a larger guy in a gray shirt comes out of the stands behind Rene Russo TWICE. You see him once, they cut to a different shot, then back to that same angle where he comes dancing out again. Love this movie.
Great job Trevor! Major League is one of my all time favorite movies, and definitely my favorite baseball movie. I loved your comparisons and parallels to your own experiences. I laughed at the clips that were speeded up and the really high pitched voices. If you’re looking for movies to break down in the future, I’d love to hear your take on Caddyshack, Slapshot or Youngblood.
I was in college when this came out. I thought it would be just another typical 80s comedy centered around baseball. But every time I watched it (I worked at a movie theater when it was showing, so I probably watched it every night), I couldn't help but notice that the actors all appeared to have played baseball at some point in their lives. Mannerisms that the video comments on looked spot on to me - I played baseball growing up, through high school, but was never good enough to consider pursuing it beyond high school. That Yankees 1B just looked like a baseball player, with his size and that stache, and I loved the way he took a ball at first, surveyed the field to see what was going on, and fired the ball back to the catcher. Major League is one of my all-time favorite baseball movies. And come to think of it, there were a number of them in the 80s, with The Natural, Eight Men Out, Bull Durham, Major League, and Field of Dreams.
2 years before the movie came out, 1987, my junior year in high school I pulled a Wild Thing. Came in relief to start the 6th inning and proceeded to throw 12 straight balls to load the bases. Next batter hit a salami. Only difference was I actually threw a strike first and the guy tattooed my 2nd pitch to him. Every time I see that scene it brings back those old feelings.
I just found your channel recently and i love it i like the videos and i subscribed. Sandlot is the goat to me i was born in 89. I played through highschool . Loved it man.
I can't believe you went through this without once mentioning the man, the myth, the legend that is Bob Uecker.
That doesn’t have anything to do with how real the movie is to MLB.
@@F1Fanatic76 Unique announcers who bring their own flair to the game most certainly has something to do with the MLB
Amen! I went into radio and broadcasting because of Bob Uecker in this movie
@F1Fanatic76 listening to Harry Carray in the 80s on WGN tells me that this is a lie! 😂
@@F1Fanatic76A good comeback for those who question whether it should have been mentioned. Is that since Uecker is exactly the same way in real life as an announcer that it didn't need mentioned since it is clearly realistic :)
Let’s give a little credit to long time dodger catcher Steve Yeager who was in the movie and served as their baseball advisor. The dude put the actors through a spring training!
He was also the ‘stunt catcher’ and was the one throwing to 2nd and in the gear for collisions/plays at the plate
The first favorite player I had growing up. Stud.
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Yes Steve Yeager. Absolutely. Always nice to see him in there👍🏼⚾️
The most realistic part if this movie was the owner wanting to tank to move the team because thats what the As owner has been doing irl for years
Oh yeah, that's a common tactic.
Worked for the Seattle SuperSonics now Oklahoma City Thunder as well
My second favorite bit of trivia is that when the Allstate Guy, Dennis Haysbert, as Pedro Cerrano, hit the big home run in the last game, he really did hit it over the fence. And everyone on the set did go crazy.
But it wasn’t a breaking ball!
Whenever I'm out and about and a religious person tries to hand me a pamphlet or talk to me about their church, I always say: "Ahh, Hey-Soos. I like him very much, but he no help me, hit curveball." The confused look on their faces is amazing!
@@TeddyKGB12 I love it!
Not to mention as President Palmer on 24
“The Indians win it!!! The Indians win it!!! OH MY GOD THE INDIANS WIN IT!!!!!!!”
Bob uecker was phenomenal here
And please do little big league. That movie is so damn underrated
"1 hit??? That's all we got, 1 goddamn hit???"
"You can't say goddamn on the air!"
"Don't worry, nobody's listening anyway."
@@TeddyKGB12 😂
“Ahhh shit! If that’s not Shaquille o Neil in left this baby’s outta here”
@@Bilski86 that was from a different movie, I think. Shaq wasn't in college until 1989 and Major League was 1988. I think Bob said, "Tomlinson's going to need a Visa to catch that one!" And, "He swings and crushes one towards South America."
@@TeddyKGB12 yeah that was major league 2. Uecker was great in all 3 lol “the winds got this baby oh man it’s carrying and this baby is gone”
The other commentator “I’d like to remind everyone we’re in a dome. There is no wind”
😂
@@Bilski86 Gotcha. I wasn't as big of a fan of 2. It felt a bit campy and couldn't re-capture the magic of the original.
Lou Brown was probably the best portrayal of a coach/mgr. in any sports movie. The voice the attitude. He got a lot Bruce Bochy in him. "Alright Vaughn, they tell us you're a pitcher...sure not much of a dresser.. We wear Caps and Sleeves at this level son understood" Fuckin great writing and even better delivery.
Great catch Hayes. Don’t ever fucking do it again.
Get in front of the Ball! None of this 'Ole' Bullshit.
I’ll call ya back Charlie I’ve got a guy on line 1 about some white walls.
Well you may run Hays, but you hit like shit.
100% agree
Cleveland missed out on a golden opportunity in 2016. They should have had Sheen come out of the bullpen to Wild Thing and throw out the first pitch. That would have been electric!
Trust me, they wanted to SO MUCH. Feared the backlash and cancelling if they did. Even Charlie said he was up for it.
Game 7 of that series is the greatest game ever played, but I'm from Chicago so🤣🤣🤣
I'm pretty sure they wanted to but he didn't wanna do it or cause of his hiv they didn't wanna risk anything
@georgelanders4271 Lifelong Cubs fan, & I have their season DVD from that year. I still tear up every darned time it gets to the 10th inning of Game 7...I don't know how you can be a fan of the sport & not love how that series played out.
@@TinKnight omg when they brought the tarp out we all said wtf
"I saw your wife at the Capri Lounge last night; hell of a dancer you must be very, very proud. That guy she was with? I'm sure he is a close personal friend and all, but what was he doing wearing her panties on his head?"
Favorite line of the whole movie🤣
My fav will always be "Just a little outside" Beyond hilarious lol
@@JustMeELC ...And he's ouuut by an eyelash at third
Uh-Oh Rexie, I don’t think this one’s got the distance.
I like the line before he talks about his wife dancing Taylor says to the A's player "Wow big opportunity here time to be a hero." Then starts talking about his wife
Gets distracted and proceeds to strike out
Best line of the movie came from Vaughn in the restaurant.
"You want me to drag him outside and beat the shit out of him?".
It was just prefect timing and done perfectly.
HAHAHAHHAH Another awesome one.
I feel like a banker in this... 😂😅
They got chili dogs over there ?
If you want to check out a non-baseball sports movie, try The Replacements.
@@TrevorMayBaseball”and here’s the pitch……ah shit……if that’s not Shaquille O’Neal out in left this baby out of here
Fun fact - Charlie Sheen was a pitcher for Santa Monica High School and compiled a 40-15 record. He was even scouted by several colleges to play ball but pursued acting instead.
that makes so much sense. i just made a comment about how good his form was in the movie. now i know why. thanks!
he had good pitching form, from what I saw
Do a part 2 with even more stuff. Like that catcher talking to the batters, or the general language of the players to each other and the umps, the league salary thing, I feel like there is so much more. Best sports movie ever
Growing up with parents that were Cleveland fans, it really warms my heart to see this kind of love from a major leaguer for a movie I grew up watching on repeat. I have never been a big sports fan, but I love this movie! To really hear what’s realistic vs what’s not brings a smile to my face. Thank you for this!
"Jesus... I like the man... but he no help me hit a curveball."
"Are you saying that Jesus can't hit a curveball?"
"Come on, guys, don't turn this into a holy war."
🤣😂🤣😂
Loved the scenes with Harris and Cerrano.
I remember my grandma had this movie on VHS when I was a kid. One time, I was curious and popped it into the VCR, and I was hooked on every minute of it. I had already fallen in love with baseball due to Mike Piazza and Sammy Sosa in the 90s, but this is the film that made me beg my mom to play little league. I did not look back since. Sure, I didn't get to play in high school or college, yet it's amazing how this film pushed me to keep trying even though I wasn't very good. I thought, hey, if those guys were counted out and found success, maybe I could. Now, when I rewatch the film as an adult, my love for baseball and my grandma truly bubbles up to the surface and makes me feel things I can't explain. It also reminds me that my story underdog story has some success tied to it if I keep trying.
Thanks for this video, Trevor!
And, of course... thank you, Tata, for buying that tape, you changed my life in more ways than one. Rest in peace 🙏🏽
Great memory to share 👍
2:35 - You mentioned the vehicles arriving and the vehicles reflecting the player.
However, you failed to mention Willie Mays Hays' vehicle but showed it at 3:41. Willie Mays Hays is driving a VW Bug with some weird Rolls Royce looking crap on the hood. He is trying to be something he is not. And that is exactly what his car is as well. LOVE IT!
One correction, Lou Brown was not the manager of the Mudhens at the beginning of the movie. He was managing a tire store. He mentioned he had been the Toledo manager years before then.
The rest of this is just awesome.
He worked at Tire World and he told the GM let me think it over I have a guy on the other line about some whitewalls.
@ Yeah, and point of sales for just about every tire store in the country until around 2005 was handled by the store manager. Also, Lou’s name tag states “manager”.
"Get in front of the DAMN ball⚾, Don't give me this OLÉ,BULLSHIT 🐂💩,is one of the greatest lines in movie history 🤣
"Is that you Tolbert? My knees are killing me and if you're going to pull this shit, at least say you're from the Yankees."
The best part of that movie is the setup scene for the final game. The music revs, Bob Uecker's intro is great, and the crowd noise is absolutely electric. That is 90 seconds of pure building energy.
I've watched the VHS tape of Major League (1989) maybe 100x growing up, it's the perfect baseball movie for me and I fell in love with the sport before my state (AZ) even had a team because of it. Loved this rundown man, instant subscribe.
You didn't mention dorn's contract and Lou brown pissing on it. With the eye contract. My favorite moment.
Too bad the Mets can't do that with Bobby Bonilla's contract.
This is your best video yet and that's a high bar, bud. Your rendition of Ricky Vaughn's entrance is especially magical. DANANA DUH NUH DANANANA. Gold.
Danana? Bregh
Catcher: Signals curveball.
Pitcher: No.
Catcher: Signals slider.
Pitcher: No.
Catcher: Signals fastball.
Pitcher: Yes.
Ump: Pitch clock violation.
No pitch clock back then though
Yes, that’s the joke.
The 1989 sports comedy Major League was primarily filmed at Milwaukee County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which stood in for Cleveland Stadium, even though the movie is set in Cleveland. The producers chose Milwaukee because it was cheaper than Cleveland and they couldn't work around the schedules of the Cleveland Indians and Cleveland Browns. The stadium's grandstand interior was similar to Cleveland Stadium's, and the movie also included some exterior shots of Cleveland Stadium, including aerial shots taken during an Indians game. The scoreboard in the stadium even has a sign for WTMJ-TV, the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee.
County Stadium - the home of the legendary 1957 Milwaukee Braves.
Cleveland fan. Thanks for explaining that... it always pissed me off. That it was mostly Milwaukee.. but. My time in Milwaukee was like being in Cleveland. Crazy.
I'm watching this on Monday August 12, 2024 (3 AM). Charles Cyphers who played Indians GM (and former Manager) Charlie Donovan sadly passed away last week aged 85.
Cyphers was probably best known as Sheriff Leigh Brackett in the Halloween movie series.
RIP Charles Cyphers 🪦
Today is February 1st 2025. The great Bob Uecker passed away just 2 weeks ago January 16th at age 90.
Rest in peace
Bob Uecker🙏🏻⚾️
You forgot on the play at the end that old man Jake Taylor is able to get the last bit of juice out of his old knees and beat the throw to first. Completing his story arc about “if he had anything left to give”.
Yeah, true, but I didnt want to get into the weird love interest stuff where he’s kind of the bad guy lol, so I just left him be mostly.
If people knew the regime Andre Dawson put himself through before every game in his later years in the Bigs just to play at all, they’d roll their eyes at treacly crap like “one last hurrah” instead of acting like it was the norm.
@@GizmoBeach Andrea Dawson isn’t the only player that ever lived that had an intense workout. Heck, Tom Brady wrote a book about his. Andrea Dawson is def not the NORM! lol. At some point, it’s over no matter how hard you train…..also this is just a movie.
@@TrevorMayBaseballthat part didn’t have anything to do with useless love story. That was an old beat up catcher with bad knees legging out that bunt in pain. If he gets thrown out it’s all over. That scene is perfect.
@@1TightMinute not talking about training. Talking about hours long pre-game treatment for both knees just to play at all.
Its crazy I can go through life for 30+ years wondering what some of my favorite ball players are experiencing in spring training, regular and then finally post season and have it all broken down in a nice 20 minute video. This was legendary, didn't know half of this existed in the game. You should definitely do more of these.
Years ago I was lucky to see you pitch in spring training practices and games and today I am lucky YT recommended your channel. Good luck to you and can’t wait to see what you do next!
Trevor May with a UA-cam channel?! Pretty cool stuff. I do like how you modestly compared yourself to wild thing in terms of his lack of control, but the reality is that you averaged only three walks per nine innings while striking out an average of 10. Pretty damn impressive..
By the way Sheen had some pretty good mechanics in my opinion.
“Chicks dig the long ball” the braves commercial. 🤣🤣🤣
Hit us with the breakdown on "Little Big League" which many people say has the most accurate portrayal of the on-field abilities of players.
Trevor was a twin. It is destiny
Pinch hitting a washed up left handed batter to face Randy Johnson with two outs in the ninth was as fake as it gets and would have never happened in the major leagues.
Pinch hitting a washed up left handed batter to face Randy Johnson with two outs in the ninth was as fake as it gets and would have never happened in the major leagues.
@@DerekLFoster thats not what happened at all
They used real baseball players in that movie, and I'm not just talking about the MLB player cameos
My wife, her brother, and her mom were extras in this movie. They sat in Milwaukee County Stadium several days to fill up the seats. She has pictures with most of the cast. She said everyone was super nice (especially Dennis Haysbert) except Charlie Sheen.
I met Dennis at SFO about 10 years ago. Incredibly nice guy and absolutely gigantic
As a former “never was” your take on routines was SPOT ON! Freaking relatable as hell!!! Loved your take and would LOVE to hear your take on Bull Durham and its take on life in the “bus leagues”
lmao, that was a great rendition of Wild Thing, you're totally nuts! Love it!
Fun fact: Sheen trained pretty extensively for this role, enough to get his fastball into the mid 80’s. So it’s not movie magic watching him throw - it’s actually him.
Sheen was actually a legit baseball player and threw 85 in his playing days
Yeah, he prepared for that movie like a lot of big leagers started doing back then- he took steroids. Publicly stated it helped his velocity. Regardless, ol Charlie Estevez out of Santa Monica HS was a pretty decent baseball player already.
Unlike Tim Robbins, aka Nuke LaLoosh.
I used to work in an MiLB front office and our club president and I would argue almost daily whether Major League or Bull Durham was the most "baseball" baseball movie. Fantastic breakdown on a phenomenal movie.
Good arguments for both of them, really
Vaughn was a starter later in the season going down the stretch because he was skipped even though it was “his turn in the rotation” for the last game against the Yankees.
Love the mention about guys in the majors having to get their eyes checked and their performance improving after seeing an eye doctor. Just yesterday it came out that Enrique Hernandez (10 year MLB vet) who was slumping earlier this season hard, attributed his recent success due to getting his astigmatism treated with better glasses. It’s crazy to me how it’s not just rookies but veterans who can benefit from this.
Watching this movie now and trying to figure out who the Cleveland Indians are is like listening to Adam Sandler’s “Hanukkah Song” and trying to figure out who the SuperSonics are.
Back in the 1980's downtown Cleveland did look like that with that many people. As a kid I would always love Woolworth's on Euclid Ave (where House of Blues is now) and during Christmas we had Mr. Jingeling and his keys at Higbee's (where Casino is now next to Tower City). Downtown Cleveland died in the late 90's-early 2000's.
Major League and Little Big League are my 1a and 1b favorite baseball movies.
good movies, but Angels in the Outfield for me, and Rookie of the Year too
One thing I liked that I found out years later, the old vet pitcher Harris, when he is pitching to Cerrano during spring training, is using real baseball signals to the catcher. When they tell him to throw a curve, he moves his glove from arm side to glove side horizontally, the signal the next pitch is a curve. IIRC, he also does it on a fastball too (glove pointed down, then brought up to point at the catcher). A detail very few people would even pick up on, but would actually occur during a throwing session.
Lou Brown wasn’t a AAA manager. He was running a tire store.
Thank you for doing this! It still is one of my favorites and cemented my love of the game. Also Sheen did a lot of his own pitching and was hitting 80’s on the gun!!
I was just going to see if this was mentioned anywhere, or else I was going to bring it up.
Long Gone is one of the top baseball movies of all time. Used to be very hard to find and I believe it was an HBO original. I think he whole thing is on UA-cam now.
Let's go Stogies
I forgot how funny coach Brown was. Not having that conversation at the beginning of him hardly agreeing to be the manager was hilarious!
#1 favorite movie of all time... Not just of sports movies but ANY movies.. So much so that I got the logo of the baseball with sunglasses and Mohawk tattooed on me the size of an actual baseball.
My 18th birthday present was a Chief Wahoo tattoo on my right arm. 44 and wear it proudly.
FUN FACT: Hundreds of compliments from Native Americans. 17 complaints from fellow white people😂😂😂
@@clevelandcbi That is awesome. I had an Indians hat, but it vanished long ago (wore it at the one game I saw at Cleveland Municipal). Did you know the very first shot of Major League is of one of the Guardians on the Hope Memorial Bridge? Quite a coincidence (or it gave the team the idea to change it to that name).
@@clevelandcbi WOW!!!
By far the biggest changes would to Willie and Ricky if this movie would be made today. Willie would be a power bat, maybe even a switch hitter who could be encouraged to go deep rather than hit grounders. Ricky would have to be reaching 100 MPH+ ON AVERAGE just to show how crazy his stuff is. Love this movie, loved the review, Trevor. Glad I stumbled across your channel.
My biggest problem with this movie, is there’s no way Taylor bats anywhere near Mays in the lineup. Mays is 1 Taylor is a 8 hole guy at best. But hey great video
Given the team, I could see Taylor being the #3 or #5 hitter. Cirano's clearly batting cleanup, and Dorn's right before him so Dorn's batting #3, which seems about right for a high average singles hitter with some home run power to be in the 3 splot. However that means bad knees catcher is batting #2? That did break immersion for me when that came up.
I figured the lineup as Hayes, 2nd Hitter, Dorn, Cirano, Taylor, , 6th hitter, 7th hitter, 8th hitter, Tomlinson (who's established earlier in the same inning as batting right before Hayes, so has to be #9, when he nearly hits out out off the starter and draws out the Yankee's closer)
Not necessarily. The movie doesn't really show what kind of hitter Taylor is.
@@williameasom2936 The movie does actually show Taylor hitting at least one home run during the rally montage. So presumably he's still got some power left in his old bat.
@Seriously_Unserious , okay. The movie still doesn't provide enough evidence to the viewers for them to determine what kind of production he brings to the plate as a hitter though. The original comment is trying to say that there's no way Taylor hits behind Hayes which is why I'm pointing this out.
@@williameasom2936 and if you read my replies, I said him hitting directly behind Hayes IRL would be highly unlikely. I pegged him more as a middle of the order player, slow because of his knees, but still has power and average, relative to the other bats in the lineup.
I remember getting in trouble with my dad when he rented it on VHS and forbid his kid that loves baseball from watching it. I snuck down when he was asleep and he caught me. No way that movie gets rated R today.
You kidding? That movie is rated PG if it came out today 😂😂😂
It would get rated R due to the F bombs dropped, you're only allowed 1 before you get the "R" rating
Its crazy how when you are just so used to focusing on a tiny ball being flung at mach piss towards you, that suddenly one day you notice everything else is suddenly blurry. Rough.
Can you top the original “Bad News Bears”?
“You know it’s against the law to have an open container of liquor in a moving vehicle?”
“Yeah, and so is murder, so don’t tempt me.”
BNB (1976) is my all-time favorite baseball movie, but less for the baseball (which are still great) and more for the chracters & theme. At the end of the day, Buttermaker is no different from the other parents until he has that moment where all the kids are staring at him during the final game after he loses his shit. He was using the kids as a vehicle to prop up his own self esteem, too. But in that moment he gets it and it's fucking beautiful. Oh, and I was in Little League in SoCal in 1976 and BNB absolutely nailed what it was like. (Major League #2 & probably League of Their Own #3.)
@@ericbauer9029 - And at the trophy ceremony telling them to take second place and stick it where the Sun don’t shine. The kids will get good of their own volition when the rivalry becomes their own.
That, and giving the kids beer at end was priceless. That was 1976. lol
As a baseball player myself, you gotta love those pranks/shenanigans.
Though, they're not for everybody's personality on the team.😂
Ricky Vaughn's 96 is a lot more impressive than it looks on the surface. Pitch speed was measured differently back then than it is now. An 85 mph fastball recorded with a speed gun would equate to 93-95 with the current Statcast method of measuring pitch speed. The speed of the pitch changes drastically depending on where the measurement is taken (at release, near the plate, or somewhere in between). The estimates are that today's measuring standards add 8-10 mph to fastballs clocked with speed guns and JUGS guns. By today's standards that 96 mph fastball would be closer to 104 mph.
That’s pretty cool info actually 👍
Yes. Do you know when they changed where they measured velocity from? I've never found out. Nolan Ryan was said to have thrown around 108 by today's measurement (per the Fastball documentary). I was watching the 1980 MLB All Star Game a ways back and Keith Jackson said in the first inning that JR Richard just threw a slider clocked at 94 (or maybe 93). That would be a triple-digit slider today. JR was effin' scary. RIP.
@@ericbauer9029 It isn't so much that they changed where they measure velocity from. As the guns got better, they could pick up the pitch closer and closer to the release point. The old guns didn't pick up the pitches nearly as quickly. Now they use statcast and have 3 cameras on each pitch so they are really accurate. Baseball America has a really good article on it. I tried to link it but youtube blocked the link. The article name is The Measure of a Fastball Has Changed over the Years. It was published back on Aug 5, 2020.
@@hshaughnessy17 Thanks for sharing. Quite interesting and I had never thought about it, but yeah makes sense.
@@ericbauer9029JR Richard was unbelievable... 👍
As a kid I remember thinking how ridiculous it was that Harris was using crisco for his breaking balls, now it just feels like a behind the scenes MLB exposè.😅
the scene where Ricky Vaughn spikes the ball into his glove and turns around reminds me of Al Hrabosky
Some decades ago, I used to play in a non professional, amateur baseball team in Mexico. And I had a manager that look liked exactly the same as Lou. The same mustache style, speech style. I miss those years!!
I wanna hear your take on Bull Durham. #1 baseball movie for me.
not even top 3 in my personal record book
@@hookseybaby that’s insane pol
Field of Dreams? The Natural? Those are probably my top 2.
same here
Angels in the outfield is 1 for me
This movie is a classic. This was one my favorite movies growing up in the 90s. I had a VHS of this movie and I wore it out lol. I bet i watched it several hundred times. I still like to watch it every few years or so. Now that I've seen your video I'ma have to watch it again 😂
Absolutely loved this! You should do Bull Durham
My favorite baseball movie
I'm going to watch it now. Free on Tubi!
16:56 .... Dude ... ... This had me straight up laughing till I gigglesnorted... And it has been an eternity since I last did that .. I needed that.. thanks a lot 🤘🏽🤘🏽😎
Charlie Sheen was actually a pitcher in high school. That’s why his motion looks so convincing.
idk if this is true, but there's a rumor that he was able to throw mid-80s during filming. Which makes the speed even more convincing since it's not a dinky little lob that somehow ends up being 100mph.
@@andrewg9702
I saw something that Dennis Haysbert, who played Pedro played baseball too and was actually hitting out of the park lime we see.
It’s nice to know guys you look up to as kids and see on tv as adults. Guys who are the same age as you doing some incredible things shoe a human side. I love watching every video you put out there
Bats, they are sick. I cannot hit curveball. Straight ball, I hit it very much 😂. Perfect line for a game Trevor 😂🤣. “Can you break down that last K for us Trevor.” “Well, obviously………(insert players name) his bats are sick.”
You ever consider taking Jesus Christ as your lord and savior?
I’m pissed off now Jobu. Look I go to you, I stick up for you… and you no help me now…
@@JakeNaughtFromStateFarm
“You trying to say Jesus Christ can’t hit a curveball?!?!”
@@TimothyPowlas-js1dh @$#& YOU JOBU!
@@sendthis9480 Jesus, I like him very much. But he is no good for curveball.
Trev, Matty from Rochester here! So psyched you got a UA-cam channel. Loved the video cant wait for more!
Gotta do Bull Durham Trevor
The glaring weakness of BD is that Tim Robbins very obviously had never touched a baseball in his life.
@@mattfulmer4243yes but he definitely had to announce his presence with authority
@@mattfulmer4243 Well that explains why he couldn't hit water if he fell out of a fn boat.
What a great sequence of videos you've put together. I've only watched 2 yet you've hit on subjects of interest to any guy that grew up playing baseball with hopes of making it to the Big's. As fun and entertaining as any baseball video or movies I've seen. Congrat's. Can't wait to watch your other videos.
Milwaukeean (movie was filmed here) who knows a few extras and some longtime Brewers/former County Stadium staff, worked at a company (Quad) for a few years whose logo is shown prominently on one of the fans' shirts in the Wild Thing sequence, and loves the film enough to have garnered geekitude level of knowledge about it. Adding some thoughts of interest.
Most of the extras were guys who played in high-level Milwaukee adult recreational leagues at a time when those were still really popular, so the baseball looked really good for a reason.
Charlie Sheen was a good pitcher in high school. He supposedly trained (and did steroids) to max out his velocity for the film. No, he wasn't actually hitting 101, but I've read his actual velo was over 80, which was good enough velo to bounce around the minors in that time. It's clear in the full-speed victory montage some of his pitches ran up there. I bet some of the strikeouts in that sequence were legit.
Corbin Bernsen looked good, too. I read most of Willie Mays Hayes' scenes had to be filmed in slo-mo because Wesley Snipes was actually pretty unathletic at the time, but if so, they made him look good.
Dennis Haysbert claims he actually hit a homer when Cerrano ties the deciding game. I dunno if I believe it. Dude was buff, but his swing looks like it lacked follow-through.
Obviously Clu Haywood was more than believable as a baseball player because he was played by 1982 AL Cy Young winner Pete Vuckovich. The "Taylor, what are you doing back up here?" sequence between Vuck and Tom Berenger was supposedly not in the script. Director and writer David S. Ward, a Clevelander who wrote the film as a personal message of love to his perennially disappointing team, told Vuck to go up there and "say something a baseball player would say." The result? "How's your wife and my kids?"
My only real qualm with the baseball was Chelcie Ross's casting. He nailed the speaking parts, but Harris' throwing motion didn't look like it could get the ball over at anything close to MLB speeds. Also, however old he actually was, he looked age 55. I get he was portraying a Charlie Hough-type grizzled veteran, but if so, explicitly make him a knuckleballer rather than a junkballer.
Berenger's play looks wonky, too, but that kinda fits his grizzled, oft-injured character.
While Bob Uecker isn't credited as a writer, I think he deeply influenced the film beyond just playing Harry Doyle (and probably coming up with most of his own lines). Like so many of the best comedies, what makes it work is it feels rooted in reality. The Tribe really was that bad for that long. Those archetypes - the quiet power hitter from a Latin American country with a hole in his swing, the quirkily overconfident young player with huge talent but major flaws, the brooding pitcher who needs to harness his ability, the crusty manager, the overpaid has-been, the stingy owner - are ones that feel like they're from every single MLB team, and no one would know that better than Ueck. I even think Monty is based on Uecker's long-time real-life broadcast producer. I can easily envision Ward sitting down with Ueck, who suffered through God knows how many unsuccessful Brewers seasons to that point, and said, "What stew of realistic baseball characters could mix together to be really funny?" I think they came up with these guys and it was perfect because this feels like it could be almost any MLB team in any year of our lifetimes.
It's one of the most perfect sports movies. Baseball lends itself to a unique mix of unabashed optimism and frustrated cynicism like no other sport. Bull Durham captures the cynicism best, but I don't think any movie nails the mixture better than Major League. It's a great film.
All very nicely put and appreciate learning more about Major League, thank you! Haysbert was in my softball league (in L.A.) one season: he joined the team that I had recently left (for a better team, which traveled, also). I believe he could have hit one out of County Stadium (but not into the parking lot, of course, a la Cecil). But when he was in our league, he had lost a lot of weight. He really put some size on himself for Major League. Also, Haywood was originally cast as a villian pitcher, but was changed early on -- and I think for the better.
@@ericbauer9029 Thanks, bud.
Yeah, one only needs to see Haysbert in other roles, like President Palmer or in Allstate ads, to know he bulked up to play Cerrano. I have no doubt he was big enough (dude's 6'5") or strong enough to hit one out. It's as much knowing he was facing batting practice speed pitching at best, plus, County Stadium wasn't exactly a hitter's park. Nonetheless, getting to be on a softball team with Pedro Cerrano had to be awesome. I'd have to imagine it was a little like that ad with the Little League team that picks Derek Jeter.
One story I'd heard, but can't verify the veracity of, was Berenger and Sheen, who were friends from filming Platoon together, would spend nights after filming going out to Milwaukee clubs to pick up ladies together. When it didn't work, they'd supposedly rent out a suburban indoor batting cage place and take hacks deep into the morning. I heard the story from one of the instructors at the cages (the now long gone Mike Hegan's Field of Dreams in Brookfield) where I took hitting classes myself growing up.
@@pfightingpolish I would totally believe that story! I never saw Haysbert play in our league, though. Saw him on the team I just left and went and warmed up with the team I had just joined. It was the Shobiz League in LA so there was a good amount of actors in it. I actually sat next to him at a movie - at Sundance - but didn’t even know it was him. My friend said that’s so and so from (some movie I’d never heard of) and didn’t mention he also played Cerrano until we were back in the hotel room. I about lost my shit when he told me. And it was probably good he waited because I probably wouldn’t have been able to concentrate on the movie.
Lol right of the bat... "there's never been this many people on a roar in Cleveland".
My wife and I just visited Cleveland for the first time (loved it!), and we commented how we couldn't understand how empty the streets were!
You know you are a true Yankees fan, when you are rooting for them at the end of this movie.
Just like Mets fans at the end of Rookie of the Year 😂
I see you have a high amount of humility for a pro athlete man. Lou kicks ass so hard I agree.
I may be mistaken, but i believe this was the first time ever to have a closer with a walk out song-- which is now common place in MLB
By far my favorite move of all time!
One of my favorite closers of all time, if he'd had a walk out song, it would have been the theme song to the Terminator - as he was Tom Hanke "The Terminator" back when he was with the Blue Jays.
@Glen-qh5xqEnter The Sandman???? No no, just Enter Sandman
@@dudydude3287 and it has to be a Hardcore Singapore Cane Match!
Great video. I am with you…absolutely loved this movie as a kid and watched it with my son last year for the first time. It more than holds up on every level, as a baseball movie and a comedy. It definitely stands the test of time
Please make this a series
Classic movie and love your take on the realism. Movie reviews are a dime-a-dozen. You brought something unique. It'd be great to see you do more of these!
One little nitpick: The Indians won the AL East tiebreaker, rather than the pennant. They were knocked out of the playoffs by the White Sox.
One little thing that annoyed me about the remake of "Angels in the Outfield" is that they were supposed to win the pennant, but the big game was the regular-season finale instead of a playoff game. (And this was 1994, when, if there had been a postseason, it would have had a divisional round.)
In the next movie they do win the ALCS and go to the WS right?
@@jlarrinaga They do, but there's no elaboration beyond the ALCS.
@JayTemple don't forget that movies are written and shot months in advance of their release, so maybe back in 93 the producers/writers didn't know that mlb would add the divisional round
That's true, but I think a goal was achieved because the attendance was up. So the team remains in Cleveland. The owner didn't get what she wanted.
Such a great film. As a baseball playing kid, this was my favorite movie ever - love the breakdown. The only guy that couldn't quite act out the baseball scenes was Berenger, but fortunately former Dodger Steve Yeager did all the catching scenes, including the collision at home during spring training.
Apparently Charlie Sheen threw a no-hitter in high school. Was a legit good pitcher. In the famous "winning" uh....interview he admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs which allowed him to hit 85 on his fastball. The average velo for a 4 seam fastball in MLB that year was 86.2 mph according to google. So Charlie Sheen had a ML level fastball
I read someplace that on one night of shooting he threw 122 pitches, so he could go for some distance, too. (They went back and counted in the dailies or something I think.)
Not bad at all
This was the most enjoyable vid I've seen all year! I would never in a million yrs expect a real MLBer find validity in a comedic parody. Bit of Trivia, fellow Santa Monica High School graduate Charlie Sheen was a dang good pitcher in high school, playing for a school that has many MLB alumni.
Please do this with Bull Durham! Definitely my favorite baseball movie.
How does Trevor May, who wasnt a terrible pitcher, have a UA-cam channel discussing classic baseball movies. And he has less subscribers than 10,000 pilots talking about Top Gun and playing flight sim
This is great video and time. Saw you pitch for the Mets a bunch of times, solid stuff. Rotator cuff ruined me but you came back from a bum arm like a champ
Keep it up bro
Costner's For the Love of the Game is one of my favorites although I usually FF through the 'other stuff' not pertinent to baseball. I especially like the scenes of him on the mound, chanting his mantra to focus. How does that compare, Trevor May? Have I seen Major League? Ohyeah, over and over - "Just a bit outside!"
Good grief, yes. His love interest was such an over actor and made the non baseball scenes unwatchable
I didnt expect a tyler clippard reference! But I did appreciate it! Lifelong dbacks fan and I bought one if his authenticated autographed ball last year at the team yardsale. Good dude!
Are you telling me Jesus Christ can’t hit a curveball?
OK Harris, let's not start a holy war here. 😂😂😂
Don't steal Jobu's rum. That's very bad.
Great job Trevor! I really enjoyed this!
For Love of the Game or Bull Durham next.
just watched this WHOLE video, it was that good!
I got to see you pitch in Oakland when I went to games (former season ticket holder here), and this is a great video and I love this channel!
Clu Hayward was portrayed by real life pitcher Pete Vuckovich as well - CY Young winner Pete Vuckovich.
And he lead the league in most offensive categories, including nose hair.
This is one of those rare comedies that I just love so damn much that I cannot get through it a single time without crying. All time favorite movie ever for me and I've seen a lot of movies. On that note I'm going to throw out the name of a little known baseball movie that you might also remember from childhood but probably forgot about as everybody else did. The man from Left Field starring Burt Reynolds and Reba McEntire
0:08 s in. Can’t say 42 aint an important and/or good baseball movie (came out after moneyball)
Thats on me, I had it in my head that 42 was released in '09. Either way, no baseball movies for a decade is weak!
@@TrevorMayBaseball props! Apart from the intro (😅) a great video! Great job!
I love the fact that my favorite player of all time, Steve Yeager, was the technical advisor. That’s why it was so realistic.
Money Ball was not good and it was horribly inaccurate.
Damaged baseball, too
Funny goof at the end when they win, the a larger guy in a gray shirt comes out of the stands behind Rene Russo TWICE. You see him once, they cut to a different shot, then back to that same angle where he comes dancing out again.
Love this movie.
Listen here Kelso Smelso!!!! Im actually pumped too randomly find your youtube channel! great video and of course go Lumberjacks!!! RAL
Great job Trevor! Major League is one of my all time favorite movies, and definitely my favorite baseball movie. I loved your comparisons and parallels to your own experiences. I laughed at the clips that were speeded up and the really high pitched voices. If you’re looking for movies to break down in the future, I’d love to hear your take on Caddyshack, Slapshot or Youngblood.
I was in college when this came out. I thought it would be just another typical 80s comedy centered around baseball. But every time I watched it (I worked at a movie theater when it was showing, so I probably watched it every night), I couldn't help but notice that the actors all appeared to have played baseball at some point in their lives. Mannerisms that the video comments on looked spot on to me - I played baseball growing up, through high school, but was never good enough to consider pursuing it beyond high school. That Yankees 1B just looked like a baseball player, with his size and that stache, and I loved the way he took a ball at first, surveyed the field to see what was going on, and fired the ball back to the catcher. Major League is one of my all-time favorite baseball movies. And come to think of it, there were a number of them in the 80s, with The Natural, Eight Men Out, Bull Durham, Major League, and Field of Dreams.
2 years before the movie came out, 1987, my junior year in high school I pulled a Wild Thing. Came in relief to start the 6th inning and proceeded to throw 12 straight balls to load the bases. Next batter hit a salami. Only difference was I actually threw a strike first and the guy tattooed my 2nd pitch to him. Every time I see that scene it brings back those old feelings.
Also my favorite movie. Had the movie poster on my wall in college and still have it in my garage, where I see it every day. Good breakdown.
I just found your channel recently and i love it i like the videos and i subscribed.
Sandlot is the goat to me i was born in 89.
I played through highschool . Loved it man.
I was at the filming. We sang the Wild Thing song so many damn times that I hated that song for years.