Hobbs Proves His Worth At Batting Practice | The Natural (Wilford Brimley, Robert Redford)

My dears, in this scene, we see Roy (Robert Redford) stand his ground when Coach Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley) tells him that he is being sent back to the minor league. With confidence and conviction, Roy pleads to remain where he is, and Coach Fisher begrudgingly agrees. The next morning, Roy, with a homemade bat in hand, quickly demonstrates that he is a batter of major league status and that keeping him around is a good idea.
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🎬The Natural (1984): On the way to a tryout with the Chicago Cubs, young baseball phenom Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) is shot by the unstable Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey). After 16 years, Hobbs returns to pro baseball as a rookie for the last-place New York Knights. Despite early arguments with his manager, Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley), Hobbs becomes one of the best players in the league, and the Knights start winning. But this upsets the Judge (Robert Prosky), their owner, who wants Hobbs to lose games, not win.
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[@MovingPicsOfficial]

What’s your favourite sports movie all time?

[@Nhamp2000]

Bull Durham.

[@rhyshilders]

I could watch this film 3 times in a day. Perfection.

[@ji8044]

He was way too old for the part and looked like anything but a "natural" as a baseball player. It was terrible casting.

[@rhyshilders]

@@ji8044 you’re kidding yourself. He was perfectly cast. Brilliantly acted, you can believe him in the role. Yes he was mid to late 40s, but that was the point, he was sign sight unseen on the basis that he was beat up and old for a baseball player.

[@ji8044]

@@rhyshilders Nope, in the book he's 35, but Redford was a ludicrous 47 years old. Plus Redford was a tennis player who never spent a single day on the diamond in his life. They had to cast very old looking actors around him, like Wilford Brimley and Richard Farnworth in an effort to make him look younger by comparison.

[@chrisweidner4768]

I love revisiting scenes from this brilliant film. “Well I sorta got sidetracked.” Hits hard.

[@LesterMoore]

Max Mercy said he heard Hobbs was an acrobat in the circus!😄

[@jaykay6387]

Story of my life.

[@scottward7813]

"Hobbs!" Then "Roy!" Love that

[@prism8289]

Better yet, calling him kid.

[@shanekilpatrick3378]

Yeah 👍🏻 😊

[@toesuf94]

Beautifully shot film with a great story. Love this film.

[@yeltsin6817]

On of the best movies ever

[@graniteman62]

Great movie with an old type story, no fancy crap etc, just straight forward from beginning to end

[@stevejanowiak1982]

“Fancy crap!” 😂 Love it. And I agree w you 100%!

[@JohnDoe-qu7gm]

One of my favorite scenes in movie history

[@jintsfan]

Love this film. Absolutely love it. Redford’s dress sense, leather jacket, shirt, tie and fedora are the dog’s bollocks.

[@GNXXRAY]

My favorite sports movie ever

[@rizon72]

I never noticed the color of the water when he gets a drink until now.

[@Rosarymeds]

I guess they didn't care about rusty lead pipes back then

[@jayhouston7054]

If I recall Pops complains about how bad the water is and usually spits it out, but is so shocked that Roy can hit that good doesn't even notice it that time.

[@jeepliving1]

@@jayhouston7054 "Wouldn't you think that I could get a fresh drink of water after all the years I spent in this game? Red, did you talk to that bastard partner of mine about the drinking fountain?"

[@ssmith7074]

@@Rosarymeds I'm not sure how you expect lead pipes to develop rust.

[@richjasso]

Best baseball movie ever .

[@mjcruiser4238]

Kinda a toss up with Field of Dreams and Bull Durham

[@WilliamLevin916]

@@mjcruiser4238 Don't forget For The Love Of The Game

[@mjcruiser4238]

Not for me

[@mjcruiser4238]

Actually there is another on on my list “Bang the Drum Slowly”

[@wvu05]

It's still shocking to me that Robert Redford was only two years younger than Wilford Brimley.

[@don0612]

Diabetus

[@LesterMoore]

​@@don0612And wine, booze, women and song?🤔

[@deepee1452]

Wow “The diabetus”

[@ksrmk]

​@@don0612😂

[@bgmcc907]

The Face.

[@REB4444]

I forget how much I LOVE baseball until I see these highlights and it reminds me why it's special.

[@jacktheripoff1888]

Buffalo's War Memorial Stadium. They were lucky to still have it to film this. From the right angles and close-ups it could have passed for the Polo Grounds. By the way how many others noticed how horrid that water is coming out of the drinking fountain?

[@kylehubbs651]

"Well you're better than anyone I ever had. And you're the best GD hitter I ever saw.......suit up."

[@TheGreatWhiteScout]

My favorite scene in the movie.

[@larrydanadavid2435]

One of the best baseball movies. Tied with Eight Men Out.

[@iatsd]

For Love of the Game - fewer cliches, better cinematography & scripting IMO.

[@werenotclowns3241]

I'd put Bull Durham in the conversation as well. But nothing tops The Natural. It was filmed in Buffalo, NY where I grew up. I used to go see the AAA Buffalo Bisons in that stadium...and a classmate was an extra in the movie. It came out when I was in 3rd grade. Such fond memories!

[@charleshultquist9233]

Tremendous film

[@4Truth05]

Not only is Robert Redford’s Roy Hobbs batting left handed and wearing No. 9, his swing is identical to one of the all time greatest hitters Ted Williams.

[@ji8044]

LMFAO,. He was 47 years old, and the only sport he had ever played in his life was tennis. It was just absurd.

[@cazhgacel]

Such a good movie

[@jfstennisman]

I've never seen chocolate milk come out of a drinking fountain.

[@timpatrick564]

Just live by Homer Simpson water rules. If its brown, drink it down... If its black, send it back.

[@commonsenseisntcommon1776]

Great movie!

[@toeey1]

Hard to believe, but Wilford Brimley was only 27 in this scene. Crazy

[@KenOnStrength]

He aged like Sparky Anderson

[@kwebster62]

Funny. For the uninformed, Brimley was 49 when this movie came out.

[@davidkean5680]

Very good

[@ultimatebucco3181]

Bob Nutting must sign this Hobbs guy pronto!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@tommyzai7038]

Underrated film!! Love it.

[@atticstattic]

Underated? How?

[@nautilusshell940]

2:25 that water looks delicious

[@Koulnis]

They recycle all the dip spit.

[@jaybarnes8034]

Zack Hample should have been in the movie.

[@Paul-lm5gv]

Brimley was great in that role!

[@mikebolt3753]

At start of BP he was called ‘grandpa.’ By the end he was called ‘kid.’

[@acedrumminman]

"Not bad kid" hahahahahahahaha!

[@lsmft9576]

Yaz!

[@hotchkissart]

Great scene, but i just noticed the COLOR OF THE WATER from the fountain!! Yikes!

[@wmst5065]

What do figure was coming out of that water fountain, bootleg whiskey?

[@shanekilpatrick3378]

And Pitching was his first talent. Imagine what could have been?!

[@dougbodenhamer9391]

Great movie. But the book waa great too, but, let's just say, had a different ending.

[@mattrinck7503]

From what I've read, the author was fine with the change and said something like the book ending wouldn't work well for a movie.

[@jasperchieng9294]

What the hell was that sludge that came out of the water fountain?

[@dangermartin69]

Rusty water.

[@gregorybriner9658]

Great movie but there is no way Hobbs would be denied batting practice under any scenario

[@tomshea8382]

If Pop thought Hobbs was a gimmick being foisted on him by the Judge to make his team even worse, he might feel as if he had seen through it and would deny Roy any and every trapping of play.

[@rgr4475]

Fictional movie, just go with it....

[@rizon72]

Given the situation between Pops and the Judge would you play Hobbs?

[@timburr4453]

Brimley is 49 years old here. Redford is 2 years younger

[@kwebster62]

Back when 49 looked so much older.

[@davidbyronhopson]

But shouldn't they be playing Calvinball?

[@aaaaaaaaaaaa808]

Robert Redford is the original Brad Pitt without the politics.

[@Jenna-Tailya]

Diabetes

[@ji8044]

Tied for the worst casting in a sports movie with William Bendix as Babe Ruth and Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig.

[@user-mg2yb6qf4m]

Love baseball hated this movie