Most Quotable Movies #5: Major League

The second of my baseball movies on this list, Major League may well be my favorite baseball movie of all time. I'm not saying it's the best in any regard, but it is so chock-full of great lines that you can use at any baseball game, it is perhaps the most versatile and entertaining of its genre.

On the surface, it's a throwaway comedy with a young, brash Charlie Sheen and speedy rookie Wesley Snipes teamed up with over-the-hill veterans Tom Berenger and Corbin Bernsen in an attempt by the owner to create a Cleveland Indians team so bad that she can break her lease with the city and move the team to Miami. This fictional ploy would be used to perfection in real life years later when PEnos S. Kroenke moved the Rams from St. Louis back to Los Angeles.

Every character shines in their own way here, but the two standouts are Dennis Haysbert as Pedro Cerrano, a Cuban defector who practices voodoo, and the inimitable Bob Uecker, whose character is called Harry Doyle, but he's really playing himself after a night out drinking with Harry Carey. Doyle's in-game commentary will keep you in stitches until the very end.

Ten Memorable Quotes:
"You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?"

"One hit,that's all we got, one goddamn hit?"

"Nice catch, Hayes. Don't ever fuckin' do it again."

"I'm pissed off now, Jobu. Look, I go to you. I stick up for you. You no help me now. I say 'Fuck you Jobu,' I do it myself."

"Forget about the curve ball Ricky, give him the heater."

"You may run like Hayes. but you hit like shit."

"Juuuuuuust a bit outside, he tried the corner and missed."

"This guy threw at his own son in a father-son game."

"Haywood swings and crushes this one toward South America. Tomlinson is gonna need a Visa to catch this one, it is out of here, and there is nothing left but a vapor trail."

 "Hats for bats, keep bats warm...gracias."