stephane dumas
07-20-2010, 04:39 PM
James Gammon who performed the menager Lou Brown in the "Major League" movies serie passed away Friday
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Major League," the 1989 comedy by David S. Ward that documented a rag-tag bunch of fictitious Cleveland Indians, was undoubtedly on heavy rotation in DVD players around the country this weekend.
Why? Actor James Gammon, who played the team's gravel-voiced manager Lou Brown, died at age 70 on Friday.
Most of Brown's memorable lines can't be published here, but the longtime manager of the Toledo Mud Hens and -- of course -- Tire World made simple phrases like "I dunno" "Give 'em the heater" and "Shut up, Dorn!" staples of many a baseball-meets pop culture soundtrack.
You see, despite there being two pretty successful "Major League" movies -- and a third from the late 1990s you probably don't remember starring Scott Bakula -- there wasn't much, or really any, merchandising done for the franchise. In fact, the most basic of memorabilia -- the baseball card -- barely exists for anything officially affiliated with the films.
James Gammon appears on just one baseball card. Period. And it's one I've never seen except for in one fuzzy random snapshot. Gammon appears in an 11-card set from 1989 that shows the actors in the first film. It was reportedly given away to fans who helped pack the stadium during filming in Milwaukee.
http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/index?id=5392552
Major League," the 1989 comedy by David S. Ward that documented a rag-tag bunch of fictitious Cleveland Indians, was undoubtedly on heavy rotation in DVD players around the country this weekend.
Why? Actor James Gammon, who played the team's gravel-voiced manager Lou Brown, died at age 70 on Friday.
Most of Brown's memorable lines can't be published here, but the longtime manager of the Toledo Mud Hens and -- of course -- Tire World made simple phrases like "I dunno" "Give 'em the heater" and "Shut up, Dorn!" staples of many a baseball-meets pop culture soundtrack.
You see, despite there being two pretty successful "Major League" movies -- and a third from the late 1990s you probably don't remember starring Scott Bakula -- there wasn't much, or really any, merchandising done for the franchise. In fact, the most basic of memorabilia -- the baseball card -- barely exists for anything officially affiliated with the films.
James Gammon appears on just one baseball card. Period. And it's one I've never seen except for in one fuzzy random snapshot. Gammon appears in an 11-card set from 1989 that shows the actors in the first film. It was reportedly given away to fans who helped pack the stadium during filming in Milwaukee.