Terrytoons had to get their two cents in, and they did just that with this opus, directed by Mannie Davis and starring Gandy Goose and Sourpuss. In the 1940's Terrytoons-Lantz-Screen Gems tradition, this one proves quite a bit funnier than one expects it to be. Love the concept of baseball played by a team of bulls and the Terrytoons crew does a nice job with it.
Any further cartoons about baseball which this blog posted here more than five years ago? Yes. Posted Tex Avery's 1944 MGM cartoon BATTY BASEBALL back in 2016. Having passed the 5 year Statute Of Limitations, 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 spinach-swilling sailor remains to this very day in 2024 the only big league hurler to throw pitches like that and not require multiple Tommy John surgeries.
The Cartoon Research website covered, as part of an excellent and comprehensive post 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.
This fan of Famous Studios' Modern Madcaps series finds the Abner The Baseball cartoon to be terrific and one of the frequently clever and inventive director/storyman Irv Spector's best.
We tip our well-worn San Francisco Giants baseball cap to "The Old Philosopher" and Irv Spector, as well all involved in creating and researching the Cartoon Research post including Abner The Baseball (Jerry Beck, assisted by Ken Layton, Mike Kazaleh and Paul Spector).
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