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Today is Toy Story Day at Target Field. Great timing considering that a slate of blockbuster flicks are scheduled to hit theaters this month and the next (the unofficial kickoff to summer movie season being Memorial Day weekend\u2019s The Mandalorian & Grogu, which I alas found thoroughly mediocre<\/a>).<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Each of these upcoming films has a baseball connection somewhere\u2014even if it takes a little digging to find them. Here\u2019s your shovel\u2026<\/p>\n Steven Spielberg clearly has a soft spot for the National Pastime\u2014even including it (and somehow making it an incredibly poignant moment) in his 1991 Peter Pan re-imagining Hook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n While no explicit baseball references exist in the Toy Story cinematic universe, the voice of its starring character has an iconic role\/monologue in the 1992 classic A League Of Their Own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Baseball exists in the Superman canon! In this really good scene from a really bad film (1987\u2019s Superman IV: The Quest For Peace), Christopher Reeve must don the bumbling, aw-shucks Clark Kent disguise to placate an aggressive land man out to buy the Kent farm\u2014after which he takes out his frustration by cracking a cowhide sphere into (literal) orbit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n One really has to turn over some soil to find a hardball connection to English director Christopher Nolan. But the star of his 2014 mega-hit Interstellar\u2014Matthew McConaughey\u2014once prowled a cinematic diamond outfield in the 1994 Disney cult classic remake Angels in the Outfield.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Let\u2019s see if the Twins can produce some cinema of their own this afternoon by taking the final game from KC!<\/p>\nDisclosure Day<\/a> (Releases June 12)<\/h5>\n
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Toy Story 5<\/a> (Releases June 19)<\/h5>\n
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Supergirl<\/a> (Releases June 26)<\/h5>\n
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The Odyssey<\/a> (Releases July 17)<\/h5>\n
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