2. Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn, “Major League”
Wild Thing … You make my heart sing. The character could be an actual person in the majors, and I still hope one day the actual Cleveland Indians can have a player like Ricky Vaughn and he enters a game like “The Wild Thing” did. He had the coolest entrances, the baddest hair, a crazy fast fastball and a rebel attitude that made him special.
Yes, Vaughn might have became corporate in the second edition of the movie series, but he eventually found his way after playing poorly as a clean-cut MLB player, got back to his roots, took care of business and stole the show once again. He made many fans happy in the movie, and to this day, that character is still celebrated, as a couple years ago they even had their own baseball cards.
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1. Crash Davis, “Bull Durham”
Is there a more realistic baseball movie character than Crash Davis? Upon his retirement, he was the all-time leading home run hitter in minor league history, but he didn’t care about that as he was more than just a baseball player.
Davis made all of us look at ourselves in a way of being more than just a one-dimensional person, and that he was not. Davis lived a life that taught him many things, but like most folks reading this list, baseball was his top passion. What I liked about Davis was the fact he made Nuke LaLoosh not just major league ready, but he made him into a better person, providing the movie with not just a good baseball feel, but showed us just maybe what it was like to be a veteran in minor league baseball and what lessons those older than us are able to pass along.
On a more lighthearted note, here is one of my favorite Crash Davis quotes during on of his first meetings with LaLoosh outside a bar:
“Yeah? From what I hear, you couldn’t hit water if you fell out of a (expletive) boat.”
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From that moment on, we knew we were in for someone great when it came to Davis.