2023 Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame - Round 1

Cecil "Stud" Cantrell

TV Show/Movie Appeared: The Slugger’s Wife (1985)
Actor/Actress: William Petersen
Position Portrayed: Player/Coach
Played For:: Tampico Stogies
Why you should vote:: Hard Drinking? Lots of Partying? Sounds like our kind of guy.
Why you should not vote:: Most of you never saw this.
Long before he was Gil Grissom, William Petersen was Cecil “Stud” Cantrell, the Player/Coach of the 1950’s Gulf Coast squad, the Tampico Stogies. Before we let the coolness of his character’s name and team name sink in, the HBO movie in question (Long Gone) has been correctly described as a hybrid between Slap Shot and Bull Durham. With that equation, and with Cantrell leading (and stealing) the show with hard drinking and hard partying ways, the film has become a bit of a cult classic, especially since it can’t be found easily. Had this gained a bigger audience, we think that Cantrell would have a better shot for our Hall.