Eight Men Out (1988)
John Cusack: Buck Weaver
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Quotes
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Buck Weaver : You get out there, and the stands are full and everybody's cheerin'. It's like everybody in the world come to see you. And inside of that there's the players, they're yakkin' it up. The pitcher throws and you look for that pill... suddenly there's nothing else in the ballpark but you and it. Sometimes, when you feel right, there's a groove there, and the bat just eases into it and meets that ball. When the bat meets that ball and you feel that ball just give, you know it's going to go a long way. Damn, if you don't feel like you're going to live forever.
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[Some New Jersey fans are arguing on whether a Hoboken outfielder is Joe Jackson (the outfielder is, in fact, Shoeless Joe)]
New Jersey Fan #1 : You ever see him play?
New Jersey Fan #2 : Yeah, I saw pictures.
New Jersey Fan #1 : Pictures
[scoffs]
Buck Weaver : I saw him play.
New Jersey Fan #1 : Yeah? What do you think?
Buck Weaver : He was the best. Run, hit, throw... he was the best.
New Jersey Fan #1 : So what do you think? Is it him?
Buck Weaver : Nah. Those fellas are all gone now.
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[Weaver is getting ready for court]
Buck Weaver : How do I look?
Helen Weaver : You look just fine.
Buck Weaver : I look like a future jailbird.
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[Albert Austrian is introducing his law partners to the Sox]
Austrian : Their names may not sound familiar, but I'd say that these men are the Ty Cobb, the Tris Speaker, and the Zack Wheat of the legal world.
Buck Weaver : Who's the Babe Ruth?
Austrian : That's me.
