Congratulations to the 2012 San Francisco Giants, who swept the heretofore mighty Detroit Tigers to earn their second championship in three years.
The ceremonial parade down Market Street takes place at 11:00 A.M. Pacific Standard Time.
While there are many people who don't go for professional sports in any way shape or form, IMHO, even the momentary diversion from daily life problems one's favorite team and game can provide is a wonderful thing.
Thinking about baseball, with Thursday's long overdue tribute to the Negro Leagues and Willie Mays, who passed at 93 on June 18. Foghorn Leghorn elaborates:
What animated cartoons about baseball have we not posted on this blog before? Here's one from Famous Studios.
Terrytoons had to get their two cents in, and they did just that with this opus starring Gandy Goose and Sourpuss. In the 1940's Terrytoons-Lantz-Screen Gems tradition, this one's funnier than one expects.
Any further cartoons about baseball which this blog posted more than five years ago? Yes. Posted Tex Avery's 1944 MGM cartoon BATTY BASEBALL back in 2016, so the Statute Of Limitations means we can post it again. It's on the dark side even by Avery standards and acheived a certain immortality for a quite literal interpretation of the phrase "kill the umpire."
In the "Fleischer Studio Does It Right" department, here's a cartoon we posted here back in 2018, Popeye in The Twisker Pitcher.
The Cartoon Research website covered, as part of a comprehensive piece on the insanely busy Famous Studios in the early 1960's, the very enjoyable animated adaptation of Eddie "The Old Philosopher" Lawrence's record Abner The Baseball. Here's the original record.
The cartoon is one of the best ever produced by Famous Studios in its lengthy and checkered history. Must tip our well-worn San Francisco Giants baseball cap to the frequently clever and inventive Famous Studios director/storyman Irv Spector, Eddie "The Old Philosopher" Lawrence - and all involved in creating and researching this Abner The Baseball post (Jerry Beck, assisted by Ken Layton, Mike Kazaleh and Paul Spector) on Cartoon Research.
In the opinion of this blogger, the greatest animated cartoons about baseball were the Friz Freleng masterpiece BB and GOOFY in HOW TO PLAY BASEBALL, directed by Jack Kinney
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