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80 years ago today, Baseball Bugs cartoon debuted
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As the United States emerged victorious from World War II and Major League Baseball returned to full strength, a sassy rabbit named Bugs seemed to capture the ingenuity and cockiness of a country on the rise when he single-handedly beat a team of oversized, cigar-smoking bullies. In the process, he also gave baseball one of the most colorful phrases in sports: the Bugs Bunny change-up.
Baseball Bugs debuted in movie theaters 80 years ago this month. The 1946 cartoon is so packed with funny gags, clever puns, imaginative imagery and lively music that it’s still recognized as one of the best produced by Looney Tunes. Set at the Polo Grounds in New York, the cartoon also presaged a golden age of baseball in which the city’s three teams dominated the national pastime.
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