Henry Rowengartner, Roy Hobbs, Nuke Laloosh Crack NESN.com’s Fictional Baseball All-Star Roster (Photos)

by abournenesn

Sep 6, 2011

Henry Rowengartner, Roy Hobbs, Nuke Laloosh Crack NESN.com's Fictional Baseball All-Star Roster (Photos) Can a fan ever get enough baseball? Thirty teams playing (at least) 162 games every season — plus eight more squads that get to partake in playoffs — simply isn’t enough.

Whenever Disney wants a summer blockbuster, it releases a baseball movie and rakes in the cash.

The latest addition to the baseball fiction genre, The Art of Fielding, a novel by Chad Harbach, hits stores Wednesday. The book, which is about a small college shortstop who develops “Steve Sax Syndrome,” already has received rave reviews.

The best baseball movies and books have memorable characters, and almost everyone loves Ham Porter’s trash talk behind the plate in The Sandlot and Brickma’s brilliant “hot ice” idea from Rookie of the Year.

Forget the endearing characters, though, and take a scout’s discerning eye to the talent itself. Who would make up the all-star team of fictional baseball players? Lucky for you, NESN.com spent its Labor Day weekend pondering that very question.

The result is a complete starting rotation, a closer, eight position players, a designated hitter, a manager and even an umpire. Every player is listed at the position he played in a movie, and in the event a specific position isn’t given, we gave our best guess. A few lovable names were unceremoniously put on waivers, but that’s the way it goes in the fictional business of running a fictional front office of a fictional baseball team.

Click here to see the fictional baseball all-star team >>

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