I am not from USA and am not an expert in baseball. I even don't know the rules of this game. When I see the episodes with Steinbrenner I always ask me why we never see Steinbrenners face. Was the name of the real manager Steinbrenner and had he the same attributes like the one in the show (Fast talking)?
Are there any real persons in the whole show that are playing him/herself? I only remember Raquel Welch, Bette Midler probably some of the baseball players. I am not familiar with baseball so I can't recognize any of the famous players.
What about the boss from NBC, or Calvin Klein are they the originals or played by actors?
IIRC there was an episode with the mayor of N.Y., too.
What about this J.Petermann? Is there a real or similar person in the US that references this person?
What's the name of the actor that plays Georges chief (Hierarchically he is under Steinbrenner) white hair, baldy, big nose, quite old. I think he played the murder in a Hitchcock movie from the 50s I saw recently.
BTW: Whats the difference between softball and baseball? Harder balls? Baseball for men, softball for girls?
Steinbrenner is the owner of the Yankees, he has a reputation as an interferer in team affairs, and was at one time suspended by the commisioner of baseball.
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Paul O'Neill, Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams (all Yankees) and Keith Hernandez (ex NY Mets) all played themselves in the show.
There is a J.Petermann catalogue, and it does have stupid stories in it.
Richard Herd. (Mr Wilhelm)
Not according to IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378800/
Pretty much. Softballs for girls and social games -- the ball is bigger, softer and pitched underarm.
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Steinbrenner is the owner of the Yankees. There's several reasons to not show his face. They don't need to for one. And if they did, only Steinbrenner looks like Steinbrenner so it would look lame to the people that know what he looks like.....and or else they would have to pay him to appear.
It's not Steinbrenner's real voice, but I would assume it's sort of an inside joke that the real Steinbrenner rambles on and on and annoys people. That's what makes it funny.
few of the NY Yankees played themselves, Danny Tartabull, Paul O'neil, and three others I forget who they were. jeter? mack?
I first NBC head that was infactuated with Elaine was an actor, the second one and Calivin Klein, maybe someone answers that.
That was really him
There is a real company I believe named after a real person. J. Peterman. A mail order clothing and accessories company
Karl Malden? The Streets of San Francisco
Baseball is played with a smaller but harder ball that can generally be thrown and hit at higher velocities and can travel further distances.....therefore primarly 99.9999999% it's a male sport. Softball is essentially the same game but with a ball maybe 1.5 times the size of a baseball but with a slightly softer core. In the highschool and collegiate ranks, only females play organized competitive softball. But less organized leagues offer the game to be played by everyone..... can be very competitive and fun....ceod as well
A rather famous one at that, Bob Balaban. His credits as an actor include 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', 'Bob Roberts', 'Waiting for Guffman', 'Best in Show', 'Ghost World', 'Gosford Park' and 'A Mighty Wind', as well as guest appearances in series such as 'Friends' and 'The West Wing'. He has also directed a couple of films and episodes of TV series such as 'Oz', and he came up with the idea for 'Gosford Park'.
I'm not sure who you mean by the 2nd head, but there was 'network executive Stu Shermack' played by Kevin Page (http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0656241/).
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:37:23 -0800, "Sea Biscuit" wrote:
Sorry for getting into this thread late; I'm a new arrival to the group. For the non-U.S. folks here is some more detail:
The bases are 90' apart in baseball; 60' in softball.
There are three sizes of softball: 12", 14", 16", and the type of softball being played is frequently referred to by the ball size.
14" isn't often seen much outside of the midwest, and 16" seems to be almost purely a Chicago area game. 16" traditionally is played without gloves, but in recent years occasional 16" players have started using them.
12" also has two versons; fast pitch and slow pitch.
Fast pitch has some loosely organized nationwide (and Canadian) leagues called major division. There are a handful of top caliber teams that compete in both ASA and ISC (two official sanctioning organizations) games and tournaments.
In all softball, the ball is pitched underhanded (in baseball, it's pitched with the same overhand throw as all the other throwing from player to player is done in either game). In fastpitch, almost any way the pitcher can get the ball to the plate is legal. In slowpitch, there must be a certain amount of arc on the pitch (varies by sanctioning organizations and leagues), and in some cases there may be a maximum arc. Batting and fielding are generally more important in slowpitch than pitching; slowpitch games can often be high scoring.
The pitcher is 95% of the game in fast pitch, and good pitchers often are sought after (and paid reasonably well) by major division teams. A very few, like Eddie Feignor (the King and His Court) have made a living giving exhibitions of their pitching skills.
A good fast pitch pitcher can throw a softball about as fast as a hardball (what a baseball is called when discussing softball) can be thrown. Considering that the pitching rubber is some 20' closer to home plate than for baseball can make it downright scary for a batter to stand in.
During WWII there was a women's professional baseball league (a movie was made about them called A League of Their Own), but very little baseball is played at an organizational level by women.
There are strategies and other nuances of the game that make baseball and softball different (more bunting in fastpitch softball, for instance) but the general concepts; hit the ball, throw the ball, catch the ball; are the same for both.