Then there was the same issue we had before: I kept thinking. So, I didn’t add the others, and I removed “Baseball Bugs.” made 168 animated shorts featuring Bugs Bunny), no more than seven-and-a-half minutes long and not to be compared with feature-length movies and documentaries we have on our list. They are, but they’re short movies (from 1940 to 1964, Warner Bros. Related: The Athletic’s Top 100 Sports Movies of All Time We couldn’t put all of those on the list, could we? Because they are, in essence, sports movies. “Well, if ‘Baseball Bugs’ is on there, what about ‘Rabbit Punch’? Or ‘Bunny Hugged’? Or ‘Bully for Bugs’?” But a few moments later, there was another problem: I started thinking again. Definitely a sports movie.” (Or, maybe not.) I added it to the list.
As loony as it is, that’s a sports movie. The next morning, a Saturday at about the same time CBS then ABC aired Looney Tunes in the ’70s and ’80s, I had a thought I thought was damned genius: “‘Baseball Bugs!’ Of course.
