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Game of Nerds

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Game of Nerds	comment	You may or may not have noticed this already, but Hollywood tends to lack subtlety. As such, your average Stereotypical Nerd will usually be depicted as someone who's completely cut off from the more mundane interests or concerns of the average person. More specifically, he won't like sports. At all. On Super Bowl Sunday each year, he'll curl up with St. Augustine's Confessions. During March Madness, he'll pass his time at Shakespeare in the Park performances. He considers college athletics to be an abomination that completely degrades the academic system, and dismisses professional sports as nothing more than an especially crass modern-day version of Bread and Circuses. In short, he scoffs at "sportsball", as he may snarkily call it. However... there's a better-than-even chance that he will be willing to make an exception for one sport in particular: Baseball. Our nerd (or "seamhead", as he may proudly label himself) loves America's pastime. He can tell you who led the Federal League in on-base percentage in 1915 (Benny Kauff). He can instantly quote Bob Gibson's 1968 ERA (1.12). He can recall, from memory, the entire starting lineup of the 1995 Atlanta Braves squad that won the World Series.lineup Marquis Grissom, center field; Jeff Blauser, shortstop; Chipper Jones, 3rd base; Fred McGriff, 1st base; David Justice, right field; Javy Lopez, catcher; Ryan Klesko, left field; Mark Lemke, 2nd base. He'll also be prone to having a massive baseball card collection and surrounding himself with books on the game. If the writers are especially unsubtle, the nerd will be primarily obsessed with baseball's statistics and have no real passion for the game itself, a disconnect which might be lampshaded with a Gretzky Has the Ball type comment. A more committed nerd, however, will frequently have a game on his radio or television and can speak eloquently and at length to his friends about the sport's aesthetic beauty, its historical minutiae, and the intricacies of its gameplay. Basically, geniuses love baseball. This is Truth in Television. Just ask baseball fans. The nature of the game lends itself to easily analyzable statistics (a baseball game being basically a series of discrete, independent events, as opposed to the interconnected ebb and flow of many other sports), while advances in computing power have made those stats even easier to break down and the rise of the Internet has made them easy to acquire, often at no cost. Even prior to the emergence of sabermetrics — the empirical analysis of baseball statistics — the sport was popular among poets, novelists, and other literary and intellectual types due to its leisurely pace, rich history, and pastoral, agrarian mythos. Nerds also tend to be drawn to baseball by the fact that the game is generally less athletically demanding — and less violent — than the other major spectator sports. The most important skill in the game is the ability to hit a baseball, and that skill has only a limited relationship to traditional measures of athleticism. As a result, you get a tremendous diversity of body types and athletic profiles in baseball — some of the best players in the history of the game are either short, chubby, lanky or just oddly proportioned. That tends to appeal to nerdier types. If the writer himself isn't that much into baseball, this will be guaranteed to result in a case of Artistic License – Sports. In England, Australia, and many other former British colonies, cricket performs the same function.note And this trope often overlaps with Bollywood Nerd in those areas. Uncoincidentally, a major part of the original inspiration for the rules of baseball was cricket. A subtrope of Pastimes Prove Personality. No relation to the Internet trivia game of the same name. Or to nerds playing board games.
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Game of Nerds / int_13f21e09	comment	One of Allied soldier in a cutscene from Company of Heroes made small a mention of his "walking baseball encyclopedia" brother back home.
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Game of Nerds / int_1429eb78	comment	JWA splinters All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan have continued the tradition of recruiting new wrestlers from other sports, particularly baseball due to the success of Giant Baba. The Great Muta and Funky weapon Ryusuke Taguchi are other celebrated acquisitions. Kazuchika Okada was found by Toryumon but ranks among them nonetheless.
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Game of Nerds / int_1bdeba5a	comment	Kitty Pryde of the X-Men, in addition to being an engineering and computer genius, has characterized her never-give-up attitude several times by saying "I'm a Cubs fan!" (she was born and raised in Deerfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago).
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Game of Nerds / int_22d1aefc	comment	According to the skill description for baseball in After the Bomb, The Game is not only still being played but it's also practically a religion.
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Game of Nerds / int_23185c00	comment	Taken: In both "High Hopes" and "Charlie and Lisa", the quiet, bookish Jacob Clarke plays baseball. In the latter, he says that he enjoys it because he can never make assumptions (which is probably important to a psychic). His daughter Lisa assumed that it was because it's impossibly hard and had a lot of useless statistics that he could memorize. Jacob admits that this is part of the reason that he likes it.
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Game of Nerds / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The show had an entire episode, "MoneyBART", revolving around Lisa falling in love with baseball because of its statistical bend (she runs Bart's little league team on sabermetric principles). During the episode it is also shown that Professor Frink is a fan, him saying that the game is "Played by the dexterous, but only understood by the poindexterous." The writer, statistician and (essentially) founder of sabermetrics, Bill James, gets a cameo on this episode, where he says, "I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!" In another episode, when the kids at Springfield Elementary are signing up for gym classes, the nerdy Milhouse goes out for baseball. Many episodes, particularly "The Dad-Feelings Limited", mention that Comic Book Guy is a big fan of baseball.
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Game of Nerds / int_27777760	comment	Inverted on Eureka, where non-nerd Jack Carter is the baseball nut, and his attempt to start a town baseball team is not initially popular. They wind up starting a VR Baseball league instead, apparently just to make the game sufficiently nerdy for the Eurekans.
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Game of Nerds / int_27831967	comment	Nerdy Ben Wyatt in Parks and Recreation mentions that he played shortstop for his high school baseball team in one episode.
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Game of Nerds / int_2be37a35	comment	Tigers Mask and Black Tigers from Osaka Pro, in addition to being pastiches of Tiger Mask, also have the gimmick of being fan boys for the Hanshin Tigers baseball team.
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Game of Nerds / int_30c0d9ca	comment	Catalina Caper has dorky, bespectacled henchman Larry constantly going on about baseball.
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Game of Nerds / int_3c53ffa8	comment	Geddy Lee, lead singer of Rush, one of the favorite bands of nerds, is a big baseball fan. His team is naturally the Toronto Blue Jays, though he also follows the Chicago Cubs as they were the team that introduced him to the sport. He's also an avid collector of rare and signed baseballs, including a collection of over 200 Negro League balls that he donated to the Negro League Museum. He has at least one entire room in his home dedicated to nothing but baseball memorabilia, as seen in the 2010 documentary Beyond the Lighted Stage. It's actually very impressive.
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Game of Nerds / int_4737c653	comment	Joan Watson of Elementary is a baseball fan. Sherlock isn't as crazy about it, but enjoys the "statistical analysis" - so when Joan refuses to leave for dinner early at the bottom of the ninth, he does a Sherlock Scan of how it's going to end and waits downstairs. To her annoyance, he's right.
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Game of Nerds / int_5cf8a4e8	comment	In Phoebe and Her Unicorn, Phoebe is surprised Max is into baseball because "baseball is a sport", but he explains it's "as full of stats and numbers as a good RPG". Since Phoebe got into baseball to rebel against her nerdiness, she's a bit put out by this.
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Game of Nerds / int_62570927	comment	In the Marvel Universe, Reed Richards has mused on how the Baseball team that is better statistically (even within one game) doesn't always win.
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Game of Nerds / int_625e571	comment	A child prodigy in Law & Order: Criminal Intent was passionate for baseball, keeping track of all the stats and watching games whenever his dad wasn't around. Inverted when it's revealed the child is bright, but no genius, and simply wants to play softball. His genius father thinks it's a waste of time.
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Game of Nerds / int_627ec0c0	comment	The Next Frontier: Chief Engineer Scott Kerbley is a huge fan of shepherdball, "a Kerbal team sport that, for reasons probably involving hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings with far too much time on their hands, bears an uncanny resemblance to the game of cricket."
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Game of Nerds / int_65d07453	comment	Steve Rogers/Captain America is shown to be a fan in a few of the films. Captain America: The First Avenger reveals he used to attend Brooklyn Dodgers games (and he can date a particular baseball game he went to after only hearing a few snippets of the play-by-play on the radio) and Avengers: Age of Ultron has him make a reference to the 1927 New York Yankees.
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Game of Nerds / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: Fox Mulder is a huge baseball fan. The season 6 episode "The Unnatural" revolves around this, where he tracks down an alien hybrid whose picture he found while perusing old baseball statistics. He reveals that he and his sister used to play baseball when they were children. Chris Carter, incidentally, is a Real Life trope example, to the point that he named the character of Dana Scully after long-time Dodgers announcer Vin Scully.
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Game of Nerds / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Steve Rogers/Captain America is shown to be a fan in a few of the films. Captain America: The First Avenger reveals he used to attend Brooklyn Dodgers games (and he can date a particular baseball game he went to after only hearing a few snippets of the play-by-play on the radio) and Avengers: Age of Ultron has him make a reference to the 1927 New York Yankees. A Freeze-Frame Bonus of the posters and pennants in Peter Parker's bedroom in Spider-Man: Homecoming confirms he's a New York Mets fan like his comic counterpart. In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Hank Pym briefly dons a San Francisco Giants cap when he's trying to avoid being recognized in public.
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Game of Nerds / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Confront Moe Cronin in Fallout 4 on his warped understanding of the rules of pre-war baseball and Curie, the (at least originally) robotic and ever-studious medical scientist in your company, can comment on all the varied statistics of the game.
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Game of Nerds / int_73d7930f	comment	It actually ties into the overarching plot of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. When the "Prophets" in the wormhole dove inside Ben Sisko's head to try and understand this new life-form, they found two things: his grief over his wife, and baseball. Sisko then used baseball as a way to put corporeal life and linear time in layman's terms; from then on, the Prophets referred to Sisko's life as "the Game." Sisko also had a baseball for his Iconic Item, mentioned taking each member of his senior staff to a holodeck game at least once, fell in love with the 24th Century's other baseball nerd, Kasidy Yates, and eventually had a full-on Baseball Episode where he took on an Academy rival with his senior staff. The opposing team was naturally made up of Vulcans, who are apparently fascinated with the sport.
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Game of Nerds / int_760edaae	comment	In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Hank Pym briefly dons a San Francisco Giants cap when he's trying to avoid being recognized in public.
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Game of Nerds / int_7d1c83da	comment	Better Call Saul: The nerdy chemist who hires Mike as a bodyguard is obsessed with his vintage baseball card collection.
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Game of Nerds / int_7e1bd3	comment	In City Slickers, baseball is a big deal for the main characters. It's shown as a major difference between men and women, and a bonding theme for the guys:
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Game of Nerds / int_7fc53da4	comment	The Magic School Bus: Baseball is the sport of choice of Dorothy Ann, the resident bookworm. She's dismissive of surfing and is the only girl in the class who doesn't play soccer. With baseball, however, she appreciates how much the laws of physics come into play, and she's quite the slugger when she wants to be.
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Game of Nerds / int_865c4621	comment	In the third Honey, I Shrunk the Kids film, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, Adam finally convinces Wayne to let him go to Baseball camp instead of Science camp, where Wayne discovers he enjoys the statistics of the game.
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Game of Nerds / int_892aa56a	comment	Played with in the Murdoch Mysteries two-parter "Stroll on the Wild Side", the series' Baseball Episode. Although not a big fan, he uses his usual scientific approach to crime-solving to help his station house's team. Using a book on the game and the the still frames of a film of the opposing team's pitcher throwing a spitball, he coaches his fellow players on how to hit it.
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Game of Nerds / int_906abcf1	comment	In Kagaku Sentai Dynaman, all the (Texas?) rangers are scientists of some sort. Their costumes are designed to resemble baseball uniforms, though according to background on the series, this is because the show was originally much more sports-themed in the planning stages.
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Game of Nerds / int_a346e791	comment	NUMB3RS: Dr. Larry Fleinhardt is a Dodgers fan. Furthermore, an entire episode deals with sabermetrics. Don was also an accomplished player, although not quite good enough for the pros, before joining the FBI. Charlie also played Little League at one point but wasn't quite as good as his brother.
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Game of Nerds / int_a8e4ca16	comment	Step by Step has an episode where Mark has his stepsiblings try to corner him with impossible questions about baseball, where he is an expert. Eventually, they get him on "why do they call it an inning?" A later episode has him outright join Al's baseball team and (eventually) prove himself just as good a player as a straigist. Subverted in later seasons where Mark also gains interest in other sports (specifically, karate and basketball).
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Game of Nerds / int_afa87e53	comment	Dmitri in Backyard Sports is the embodiment of this trope. He seems to know a lot about soccer as well as baseball, but not much about football, hockey, or basketball, and especially not about skateboarding.
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Game of Nerds / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live parodied George Will (see Real Life below) and his baseball nerddom by having him host a baseball trivia game show where all the questions were floridly pretentious ("The precarious balance between infield and outfield suggests a perfect symmetry. For $50, identify the effect of that symmetry.") Celebrity contestants Tommy Lasorda and Mike Schmidt were completely baffled.
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Game of Nerds / int_b3f687d1	comment	Jason of FoxTrot tries to relate to his father and brother by getting into sports. Being a complete nerd, he does this by memorizing pages and pages of baseball stats and history starting from its inception. His father and brother, who enjoy baseball the normal way (watching games), aren't interested.
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Game of Nerds / int_b4996199	comment	Similarly, Spider-Man, the classic superhero nerd, is a Mets fan. Besides that he's from the Mets' home borough of Queens, there is no way that Spider-Man, champion of the underdog, the struggling survivor, the ne plus ultra of perseverance, would ever root for the Yankees.
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Game of Nerds / int_b9419bd1	comment	David Sarif, CEO of Sarif Industries in Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a baseball fan, often playing around with a ball while chatting with others. The TV in his office is always tuned into a game. Although no comment is made on his opinions of other sports.
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Game of Nerds / int_cac1f772	comment	CSI: In one episode, Grissom tells Sara he's a baseball fan. When Sara says, "That makes sense — all those stats," Grissom is quick to disavow the notion that he's just a stats geek, explaining that it's a "beautiful game." William Petersen puts a lot of himself into the role of Gil Grissom, including his own love of baseball He is a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, and has sung the 7th inning stretch on at least a couple of occasions, and has thrown out the first pitch at least once. Grissom's love of baseball is referenced when Sara returns in season ten and uses a baseball metaphor, to Catherine's surprise. Sara had apparently picked up some of Grissom's habits after they got married.
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Game of Nerds / int_ccf875f7	comment	Jason Gideon of Criminal Minds skips a Super Bowl party for a private viewing at the Smithsonian, but is (or was) so dedicated to Nellie Fox that an UnSub once sent him his rookie card as a clue. (Long, long story.)
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Game of Nerds / int_dbcb27dc	comment	The Martian: One of Mark's early log entries states, simply, "I wonder how the Cubs are doing." Much later on, after he's established communications with NASA, he gets to find out. It's not good news.
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Game of Nerds / int_eeb094a8	comment	In A Few Good Men, Lt. Kaffee is shown watching baseball on TV in two different scenes.
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Game of Nerds / int_f00d733b	comment	In the New World of Darkness, Chicago has a cabal of mages based out of US Cellular Field called the Game of Geometric Perfection, who believe the game has magical properties.
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Game of Nerds / int_f1c2ef05	comment	In the Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! episode Grand Scam, Velma is initially dismissive towards baseball until she passionately discovers that the game lends itself to statistical analysis.
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Game of Nerds / int_f23aadc2	comment	Averted in Who's the Boss?: Jonathan, the geek, has no clue about baseball (his stint as a ballboy with the Mets lasted one game, after he cost the Mets a game by picking up a fair ball), while Tony, the meathead, is passionate about the game; his backstory, of course, was that he played Major League Baseball for a time.
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