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I would like to see a World Series of Toronto vs Montreal, I would also like to become a multimillionaire, Until either one occurs, some additions to your fascinating baseball lore in PD #423:
Some more baseball luminaries in films include Lou Gehrig, excellent in the Smith Ballew Western, Rawhide ('38); Joe Di Maggio in Republic's Manhattan Merry-Go-Round, doing a sketch with Henry Armetta; New York players Bill Dickey, Mark Koenig and Bob Meusel, in addition to Babe Ruth, in Pride of the Yankees; former Montreal first baseman and brief Brooklyn major leaguer Chuck Connors, a lengthy film career beginning with Pat and Mike, with Tracy and Hepburn; veteran player Johnny Beradino, eventually a regular in TV's soap opera General Hospital; Dodger pitching aces Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, briefly and ineptly on celluloid before turning to other pursuits; Jerome and brother Paul Dean, portraying themselves in a tworeeler about them, Dizzy and Daffy; the Brooklyn Dodger club with manager Leo Durocher in Red Skelton's farce Whistling in Brooklyn ('43); the Cleveland Indians, including Lou Boudreau, Satchel Paige and others, in The Kid from Cleveland ('49); many, many others, with innumerable athletes doing film commercials or appearing in one-shot deals.
Being sneaky about it, you could list another baseball musical as Disney's 1946 Make Mine Music, in which one number is Jerry Colonna's depiction of “Casey At the Bat." This sequence was released separately later on. Another hilarious Disney treat is How To Play Baseball, an entry in the "Goofy" sports parade,
Several actors have portrayed baseball players more than once, Gary Cooper as Gehrig, and also in Meet John Doe, where he played an ex-pitcher. Lloyd Nolan was a pitcher in Mr. Dynamite and a Brooklyn manager in It Happened in Flatbush a year or so later, Buster Keaton, a diamond fanatic offscreen, played ball in College, and in the sound short One Run Elmer. Joe E. Brown, another devotee, as Lardner's Elmer the Great and Alibi Ike. Eddie Albert, pitching for VMI in Brother Rat, then in the big leagues five years later in Ladies’ Day ('43), Paul Douglas played in It Happens Every Spring (catcher), then managed in Angels in the Outfield,
John Ford was fond of baseball, and crammed sequences into earlysound features Up the River and Born Reckless. Two of the films he directed for TV deal with baseball, Rookie of the Year and Flashing Spikes,
Another superb short is the one-reel Pete Smith novelty, Diamond Demon ('47), which shows baseball entertainer Jackie Price doing all manner of seemingly impossible things on the field, One should also mention Charley Chase's uproarious two-reeler, The Heckler, and its inferior remake with Shemp Howard, Mr. Noisy.
Most recent baseball show is The Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings, with Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones, And there's no more space, Play ball!