So Dave Philippi, the film curator at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, and
I have been friends for a number of years.
It's a program that he puts together in collaboration with the film and television archivist at the
Baseball Hall of Fame.
With fire, spirit, and grim resolution, he took his place on the Red Sox firing line.
Thunder crashes over Fenwell as his home run hitting again becomes the talk of the nation.
There's a lot of baseball history actually that wasn't filmed and what you can get a
glimpse of is often very special.
Dave does a really good job of mixing it up between footage of the athletics, of the
games themselves, and some of the more pop culture aspects of it.
Gillette, for instance, has been doing baseball commercials.
It feels like forever since the beginning of baseball.
Shaving's easy and plenty refreshing, gives me a real lift.
You look mighty sharp.
Thanks, and I feel sharp.
After the White Sox sluggers have taken their cuts in the batting cage and before the Sox
shutout specialists have started firing bullets, well, what happens at the ballpark is enough
to make the groundskeeper cry.
Throughout the different decades, there have been different successful local and national
baseball focused shows.
And Dave has done a really good job of helping us trace that history through watching clips.
You're never too big or too small, it's just how you play the game.
And for me, these are the reasons why baseball is the greatest game of all.
People go out and have a catch, people play baseball, people listen to baseball on the
radio, people watch it on TV, people go to games.
It's something of a cultural fact and his program does try to reflect not just the aesthetic
beauty or the historical significance of it, but also the way it fits into our everyday
lives.
That's a rare chance to see this kind of stuff.
