Who can forget Steve Bartman. You know, the guy who attempted to catch a foul pop fly during Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS and knocked the ball away from Cubs left fielder Moises Alou thus ruining the Cubs chances at making it to the World Series. Yes, that Steve Bartman. Well, set your VCR’s because tonight at 8 p.m. ESPN breaks down the whole Steve Bartman incident in ‘Catching Hell’.

“You know what the funny thing is? I wouldn’t have caught it, anyway.” — Moises Alou, five years after the incident.

(Source: ESPN)

Larry Granillo over at Baseball Prospectus has crafted up an epic breakdown of what Chicago Cubs game Ferris Bueller attended on his ‘Day Off’ (2:17 mark in the video). A must read for any hybrid, Ferris-Baseball fan.

The movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” was released on June 11, 1986. The ballgame then must have been filmed either real early in the 1986 season or sometime during 1985. Looking at game logs from those seasons, we see that there was no game in 1986 in which Lee Smith (#46) faced the Braves at Wrigley Field. There were four such games in ‘85, though Smith left the Braves hitless in one of those. Of the remaining three games, it isn’t hard to find the game we’re looking for. Ferris Bueller and his pals were at the June 5, 1985, tilt between the Cubs and the Braves. The foul ball that Ferris caught was hit by Atlanta rightfielder Claudell Washington (#15) in the top of the 11th inning.