Baseball really needs a good Christmas movie. And I’m not talking about one of those Lifetime movies that are televised sometime in late October and watched by a handful of people across middle America. I’m talking about a holiday blockbuster with A-list actors and a plot line that, though familiar, offers all kinds of twists and turns that keep theatergoers glued to their seats while putting their bladders on temporary pause for a good two hours.
I’ve got an idea, and I’ve come up with a cast too. Did you know that the first film version of the Charles Dickens 1843 novella A Christmas Carol was a silent movie released in 1908 that starred film industry pioneer Tom Ricketts as Ebenezer Scrooge?