James Earl Jones

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Ray, people will come, Ray.

They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway, not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past.

“Of course, we won’t mind if you look around,” you’ll say. “It’s only twenty dollars per person.” They’ll pass over the money without even thinking about it. For it is money they have and peace they lack.

And they’ll walk out to the bleachers, and sit in shirt-sleeves on a perfect afternoon. They’ll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they’ll watch the game, and it’ll be as if they’d dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they’ll have to brush them away from their faces.

People will come, Ray.

The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.

America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.

This field, this game — it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.

Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."

Poncier

RIP.
An absolute American icon and treasure.

eeriepadave

Noooooo!

F Me In The Brain

I am your father.......

Wobbie

the OP’s quote may not have been JEJ’s greatest work but it always struck a chord with me. RIP, you had a good run.

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Wobbie said:

the OP’s quote may not have been JEJ’s greatest work but it always struck a chord with me. RIP, you had a good run.

I love when an actor pulls off a good monologue. That made me want to watch a game. 

PJ_Soul

I always always think of Field of Dreams with him.

I'm glad he lived a long, cool life. What a voice and what a smile.

tempo_n_groove

"This is a book that bought the hook that caught the fish that led them to the brook..." Something like that.  He was in a bunch of Bell Atlantic commercials in the late 90's.

Great White Hope was a wonderful movie that i'll never forget.
Darth Vaders Voice.
"Sure I knew George" Sandlot
Coming to America...

He was a National Treasure.

I will forget who but there was an actor that ran into him and asked if he would be his message for his answering service.  He obliged and bragged about having him on his phone, lol.

elvistheking44

His episode on the Big Bang Theory was fantastic.

CarryTheZero

😞 
A long life. He actually was the speaker at my sister’s college graduation from NYU. Fun to see.