San Francisco Giants and the Politics of the Clubhouse

In the 1992 film Mr. Baseball, Tom Selleck plays aging first baseman Jack Elliot. He is a smug veteran firmly entrenched in baseball dogma. He'll light your shoes on fire. He'll disagree with the manager. He has naked pictures of your wife and wants to show them to you. 

The film opens with Elliot and his Yankees teammates starting spring training. They are watching a young rookie, played by Frank Thomas, crank line drive after line drive over the fence.   

"Anybody can pull the ball, batting practice," Elliot sighs to the other established ...

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