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Old 12-04-2018, 11:15 PM
 
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What is the oldest reference to a baseball team in a movie,tv show and song, sorry documentaries newsreels and sport broadcast dont count and it has to be an actual MLB team.

For movies I got elmer,the great 1933-not a very good movie about a country hick who gets signed by the cubs.For cubs fans its only interesting seeing the actors wearing those very old school uniforms with the bear holding a baseball bat logos.

For a tv show I got Lucy meets bob hope 1956-william frawley was a huge yankees fan and even had in his contract that if the yankees were in the world series he didnt have to show up for filming of the show.This must have been very convenient for the show considering how many world series the yankees played in during the run of the show.

For a song I didnt so well, the best so far is steve goodman's A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request from '83
we cant count take me out to the ball game from 1908 because no specific team is mentioned,there is also joltin joe by les brown from '41,but once again no team is mentioned.
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Old 12-05-2018, 10:21 AM
 
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Per Wikipedia, there's "The Ball Game," a silent film from 1898 showing footage of a game between the minor league Reading Phillies and Newark Bears:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ball_Game

Also per Wikipedia, there's a lost 1917 silent film called "Somewhere in Georgia" that stars Ty Cobb. It's apparently fictional and based on a Grantland Rice short story, but does seemingly show him as a member of the Detroit Tigers -- at least if the extant poster advertising the film is legit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somewhere_in_Georgia

Also, "Slide, Kelly, Slide," a silent film from 1927 apparently shows the title character as a member of the Yankees and stars several members of the team as themselves, at least according to one description:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide,_Kelly,_Slide
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