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

[Kalineman]

In Spike Lee's movie Crooklyn, there are a couple scenes where Strat-O-Matic baseball is being played. Not surprising because Spike has been a big Strat-O-Matic player since childhood.

[novakjr]

A gem mint '52 Topps Pafko was pretty much the entire plot of "Cop Out".

[Butch7999]

In the 1944 classic "Laura," Dana Andrews' "Detective Mark McPherson" character spends a lot of time
jiggling the Baseball dexterity game by Colmor...


Noting that the game was produced with several subtle variations to the playing surface graphics
and to the metal frame, here's a close-up from the movie:


There's a WWI-era silent comedy that features another tabletop baseball game, but we'll have to
dig deeper into our notes to find the details...

In a more modern setting, the office of the FBI agent character "Booth" in the TV series "Bones"
is festooned with hockey memorabilia, most prominently a framed photo of Bobby Orr's famous
"flying" goal that finished the 1970 Stanley Cup Final...

[alanu]

Not really vintage, but in the movie Grand Canyon, Kevin Kline's son is named Roberto after Roberto Clemente, and Kevin Kline has a late 1980's Sports Impression statue of Clemente on his work desk.