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Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn
Sep 16, 2013
Published in
The 2014 Fictitious Athlete Inductees
Class of 2014 Inductee: Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn
Major League (1989), Major League 2 (1994)
Cleveland Indians Pitcher
The cast of characters from Major League may have been the most colorful group of characters ever assembled on a baseball diamond, but those who watched the 1989 classic generally believe that the man who stood out the most was Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn.
He had the unique “veg head” haircut. He had the black horn-rimmed glassed with the small silver skull and crossbones on the bridge. He had the “I don’t give a f**k” attitude and he could throw a baseball 100 miles per hour. He was the kind of player that men wanted to party with and women wanted to sleep with, even his teammates’ wife!
On the field (and let’s just focus on the first film), he had his crowning achievement by finally beating the Yankees and striking out Clu Haywood, who had crushed them all year and putting his Indians in the position to win the deciding game of the division. That moment alone is Hall of Fame worthy, and of course aided by the fact that we watched his game mature (though not necessarily the man) through the season. Like Coach Brown said, he was a big reason they got there!
Charlie Sheen, who was at the apex of his movie career, was perfectly cast as Vaughn as the role did require certain aloofness and quite cool that Sheen provided. Nobody (and probably not Sheen himself) would ever say that he had a lot of acting range but there are times you don’t need a great actor to play a character (the film had that in Tom Berenger as Jake Taylor), you just need someone who is a character.
For the role, Sheen claimed that he took steroids to bulk up and he was able to get his fastball to roughly 80 miles per hour. That may not be Major League level (pardon the pun), but it made him look like a pitcher and mechanically he was sound enough to be believable; and yes, something like that SHOULD matter in terms of entering this Hall of Fame.
Now what kind of Major League career would he have had? As the reported Major League 3 (we’re not counting the Back to the Minors) film that he was reportedly to be a part of never materialized, whether it be as a mentor (older player or coach, we have no idea), but whether Vaughn entered the Baseball Hall of Fame, or flamed out after two seasons, this was a Hall of Famer based on what we saw.
Chalk one up for the California Penal Baseball League!
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Ricky Bobby
Sep 16, 2013
Published in
The 2022 Fictitious Athlete Inductees
Will Farrell returns at his comedic best as NASCAR racer Ricky Bobby. We lost count on the amount of laugh out loud moments regardless of the absurdity of the situation, and it still gave us what we wanted as sports fans; plenty of racing action. Ricky Bobby and Jackie Moon were only two years apart; and it would not surprise us to see both enter the Hall quickly.
The Bullet Points:
Movie Appeared:
Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Actor:
Will Farrell
Position Portrayed:
Nascar Driver
Played for:
Dennit Racing Team
Why you should vote for him:
Farrell was at his satirical and comical best here.
Why you should not vote for him:
He didn’t win at the end…not that anyone remembers.
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Quincy McCall
Sep 16, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
So by the “fourth quarter” of the movie he was a bench player for the Los Angeles Lakers, and then at the end was a spectator at a WNBA game? What’s next, a movie based on Adam Morrison?
The Bullet Points:
Movie Appeared:
Love and Basketball (2000)
Actor:
Omar Epps
Position Portrayed:
Point Guard
Played for:
USC/Los Angeles Lakers
Why you should vote for him:
Um……..
Why you should not vote for her:
We compared him to Adam Morrison; isn’t that enough?
Pierre Lambert
Sep 16, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
Unless you are a Canadian, (and even then only if you are French Canadian) you may not remember a very ambitious project by the multi-lingual CBC to do a hockey soap opera shot in both English and French. The show was a hit in Quebec, though not so much in English Canada, where it had only a cult following and only ran two seasons. Still, in Quebec, this remained a big show, and has been constantly revived. As such, we thought we would nominate the show’s first primary star, “Top Cat” Pierre Lambert.
The dynamic player was not just a star on the ice, but a player off of it. We watched him grow and mature, and the standard trials and tribulations you expect to see from a star athlete are presented to us with a bit of European flair. Perhaps, best of all, with the revival of the show, we got the “Where is he now” answer that we always wonder about with our fictitious athletes. Now don’t you wish we could find that out about others on this ballot?
The Bullet Points:
TV Show Appeared:
He Shoots, He Scores/Lance et Compete (1986-1989, 1991-1992 & 2004-)
Actor:
Carl Marotte
Position Portrayed:
Center
Played for:
Quebec Nationals/Canada
Why you should vote for him:
Can you think of any fictitious athletic star that performed in both languages?
Why you should not vote for him:
Let’s face it. At the end of the day, this character is only relevant in the Province of Quebec. A Hall of Fame caliber athlete should have bigger reach than that.
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