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Bang the Drum Slowly (film)

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Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 American sports drama film directed by John D. Hancock, about a baseball player of limited intellect who has a terminal illness, and his brainier, more skilled teammate. [1]

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (often referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Acronym

An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters (as in NATO or laser) and sometimes syllables (as in Benelux).

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AFI's 10 Top 10

AFI's 10 Top 10 honors the ten greatest US films in ten classic film genres.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers

100 Years…100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies is a list of the most inspiring films as determined by the American Film Institute.

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Al Pacino

Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Albert Salmi

Albert Salmi (March 11, 1928 – April 22, 1990) was an American actor of stage, film, and television.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Ann Wedgeworth

Elizabeth Ann Wedgeworth (January 21, 1934 – November 16, 2017) was an American character actress, known for her roles as Lana Shields in Three's Company, Hilda Hensley in Sweet Dreams, and Merleen Elldridge in Evening Shade.

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Bang the Drum Slowly

Bang the Drum Slowly is a novel by Mark Harris, first published in 1956 by Knopf.

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Barbara Babcock

Barbara Babcock (born February 27, 1937) is an American character actress.

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Bob Sheppard

Robert Leo Sheppard (October 20, 1910 – July 11, 2010) was the long-time public address announcer for numerous New York area college and professional sports teams, in particular the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (1951–2007), and the New York Giants (1956–2006) of the National Football League.

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Bobby Murcer

Bobby Ray Murcer (May 20, 1946 – July 12, 2008) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who played for 17 seasons between 1965 and 1983, mostly with the New York Yankees, whom he later rejoined as a longtime broadcaster.

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Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Brooks Robinson

Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. (born May 18, 1937) is an American former professional baseball player.

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Card game

A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific.

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Clearwater, Florida

Clearwater is a city located in Pinellas County, Florida, United States, northwest of Tampa and St. Petersburg.

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Danny Aiello

Daniel Louis Aiello Jr. (born June 20, 1933), filmreference.com; accessed June 21, 2017.

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Danny Cater

Danny Anderson Cater (born February 25, 1940) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman, third baseman, and outfielder.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Gene Michael

Eugene Richard Michael (June 2, 1938 – September 7, 2017), known as Stick, was an American shortstop, coach, scout, manager and executive in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, and Detroit Tigers from 1966 to 1975.

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George Peppard

George Peppard Jr. (October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American film and television actor.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Gullibility

Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action.

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Heather MacRae

Heather MacRae (born October 5, 1946) is an American actress known for her role in the Woody Allen 1972 comedy film Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).

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Henry Wiggen

Henry Wiggen was a fictional baseball player who was the subject of four novels by Mark Harris: The Southpaw (1953), Bang the Drum Slowly (1956), A Ticket for a Seamstitch (1957), and It Looked Like For Ever (1979).

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Hodgkin's lymphoma

Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is a type of lymphoma which is generally believed to result from white blood cells of the lymphocyte kind.

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Jerry Kenney

Gerald Tennyson Kenney (born June 30, 1945 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a retired American Major League Baseball infielder.

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John D. Hancock

John D. Hancock (born February 12, 1939) is an American stage and film director, producer and writer.

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List of American films of 1973

A list of American films released in 1973.

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List of fictional games

This is a list of fictional games, that is games which were specifically created for works of fiction, or which otherwise originated in fiction.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

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Manager (baseball)

In baseball, the field manager (commonly referred to as the manager) is the equivalent of a head coach who is responsible for overseeing and making final decisions on all aspects of on-field team strategy, lineup selection, training and instruction.

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Mark Harris (author)

Mark Harris (November 19, 1922 – May 30, 2007) was an American novelist, literary biographer, and educator.

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Mayo Clinic

The Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit academic medical center based in Rochester, Minnesota focused on integrated clinical practice, education, and research.

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Mean Streets

Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and co-written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin.

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Michael Moriarty

Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is an American-Canadian stage and screen actor and jazz musician.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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Minor league

Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Mets

The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens.

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New York Yankees

The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Patrick McVey

Patrick McVey (March 17, 1910 – July 6, 1973) was an American actor who starred in three television series between 1950 and 1961, Big Town, Boots and Saddles, and Manhunt.

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Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist.

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Phil Foster

Phil Foster (born Fivel Feldman; March 29, 1913 – July 8, 1985) was an American actor and performer.

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Philadelphia Phillies

The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Pittsburgh Pirates

The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Richard Marks

Richard Marks (born November 10, 1943 in New York City) is an American film editor with more than 30 editing credits for feature and television films dating from 1972.

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Robert De Niro

Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium

Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium (commonly known as RFK Stadium, originally District of Columbia Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Washington, D.C., located about due east of the U.S. Capitol building, near the west bank of the Anacostia River and adjacent to the D.C. Armory.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Selma Diamond

Selma Diamond (August 6, 1920 – May 13, 1985) was a Canadian-American comedic actress and radio and television writer, known for her high-range, raspy voice, and her portrayal of Selma Hacker on the first two seasons of the NBC television comedy series Night Court.

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Shea Stadium

Shea Stadium (formally known as William A. Shea Municipal Stadium)) was a stadium in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. of the dedication handout that shows the stadium is in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. Built as a multi-purpose stadium, it was the home park of Major League Baseball's New York Mets for 45 seasons as well as the New York Jets football team from 1964 to 1983. The venue was named in honor of William A. Shea, the man who was most responsible for bringing National League baseball back to New York. It was demolished in 2009 to create additional parking for the adjacent Citi Field, the current home of the Mets.

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Sports film

A sports film is a film genre that uses sport as the theme of a film.

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Stephen J. Lawrence

Stephen J. Lawrence (Stephen Lawrence) is an American composer, living and working in New York City.

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Terminal illness

Terminal illness is an incurable disease that cannot be adequately treated and is reasonably expected to result in the death of the patient.

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The Southpaw

The Southpaw was the first of the Henry Wiggen baseball novels by Mark Harris, published in 1953.

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The United States Steel Hour

The United States Steel Hour is an anthology series which brought hour long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963.

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Thurman Munson

Thurman Lee Munson (June 7, 1947 – August 2, 1979) was an American professional baseball catcher who played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1969–1979).

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tom Ligon

---- Thomas (Tom) Ligon (born September 10, 1940) is an actor of Cajun ancestry.

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Tom Seaver

George Thomas Seaver (born November 17, 1944), nicknamed Tom Terrific and The Franchise, is a retired Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher.

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Tony Pérez

Atanacio "Tony" Pérez Rigal (born May 14, 1942), is a Cuban-American former professional baseball player, manager and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Vincent Gardenia

Vincent Gardenia (born Vincenzo Scognamiglio; January 7, 1920 – December 9, 1992) was an Italian-American stage, film, and television actor.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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World Series

The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in North America, contested since 1903 between the American League (AL) champion team and the National League (NL) champion team.

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Yankee Stadium (1923)

Yankee Stadium was a stadium located in the Bronx, a borough of New York City.

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1969 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

The 1969 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 40th midseason exhibition between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball.

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1969 World Series

The 1969 World Series was played between the New York Mets and the Baltimore Orioles, with the Mets prevailing in five games to accomplish one of the greatest upsets in Series history, as that particular Orioles squad was considered to be one of the finest ever (and still is by some baseball pundits).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_the_Drum_Slowly_(film)

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