Have you ever seen sports props in the background of a movie?

[Matt Felix]

This is currenty on the bay as a buy it now.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WILLIE-MOSCO...item3cc9fa36f4

It has, in red below the date and time line, "Read Masconi on Pocket Billiards."

Could this be a later addition or somthing that made it on some posters and not others? It looks like the phrase appears on the poster in the movie.

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by Matt Felix

This is currenty on the bay as a buy it now.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WILLIE-MOSCO...item3cc9fa36f4

It has, in red below the date and time line, "Read Masconi on Pocket Billiards."

Could this be a later addition or somthing that made it on some posters and not others? It looks like the phrase appears on the poster in the movie.

Mat, I checked that out...looks completly legit...I feel confident it's original...heck it has a LOA from Hunt Auctions...listing said the seller had 3...I emailed him and asked:

"Would you know how many of these there were total from the estate? May I ask did you buy them all?"

Guy wrote back:
"We purchased a group of 10, as I remember there were (2) groups of 10, so 20 total"

I'm confident mine is real because of the faint age toning and folds...the one in the listing has folds and an LOA....BUY!!

http://www.sportsantiques.com/pg5brimstory.htm
I got mine at Brimfield....I bought a Bill Tilden tennis match poster from a guy for like $600.00 as I recall....later I came back to look at it since he was holding it after I paid for it....and he had the Mosconi out...and I was all over it...said he forgot he had it and put it out after I left...think I gave $300.00...read the whole account in the link above

[2dueces]

At the end of Sweet Home Alabama there is an old Piedmont cigarette ad on the stairs as Jake comes down. The ad prolly measures 36"x 30".

[Tom Hufford]

Trouble With The Curve, starring Clint Eastwood as an aging baseball scout, won't be released until next week. I haven't seen the film yet (obviously), but have seen the preview several times, and see some very familiar photos.

The movie was filmed in and around Atlanta, with a lot of shots in Turner Field and in the Braves' offices. When the Braves moved into Turner Field in 1997 and opened their Hall of Fame and Museum, I loaned the museum numerous player photos which they copied and have used in displays at the museum and around the ballpark. (That's not as strange as it sounds - not a lot of material survived the moves from Boston to Milwaukee to Atlanta, and they had photos of Spahn and Mathews from Milwaukee but not Boston, etc.).

So, when I saw the previews, with some shots in the Braves' offices, I sat up and thought - "Hey, there's my pictures!" I'm looking forward to seeing the movie next week - I just regret that I was out of town while they were doing the filming, I'd love to have been an extra in the crowd shots, or whatever!

[Butch7999]

Here's another vintage piece we just ran across -- a fleeting glimpse of Peo's baseball coin-op, World Championship Miniature Baseball,
in the background of a scene from Fritz Lang's excellent 1936 film, Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney...

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by Butch7999

Here's another vintage piece we just ran across -- a fleeting glimpse of Peo's baseball coin-op, World Championship Miniature Baseball,
in the background of a scene from Fritz Lang's excellent 1936 film, Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney...

Good eye Butch!

[Butch7999]

Thanks Carlton -- can't really take credit for spotting it, though. Someone else at our Baseball Games group sent that to us quite a while ago --
long enough ago that we can't remember who actually did notice it. Forgot we had it in our files until just the other day.
Plenty of sharp eyes among the membership...