Voyagers! (TV Series)

Cleo and the Babe (1982)

Jon-Erik Hexum: Phineas Bogg

Quotes 

• [Jeffrey's teaching Phineas 1982 style pitching in 1919] 

  Phineas Bogg : You're tougher to please than Abner Doubleday.

  Jeffrey Jones : You were there when Abner Doubleday invented baseball?

  Phineas Bogg : Yeah, well I knew him as Captain Doubleday at Fort Sumter. We tossed the ball around a little bit between battles. He thought my pitch was pretty good.

  Jeffrey Jones : Give me a break.

• Phineas Bogg : You know, without your coaching there's no way I could have thrown those pitches. Abner never would have believed a ball could move like that. You ought to be real proud of yourself.

  Jeffrey Jones : Yeah.

  [sees Babe Ruth] 

  Jeffrey Jones : I didn't know he was going to take it so hard. He wasn't supposed to quit the game.

  Phineas Bogg : Yeah. I guess that's why the Omni's red, huh? We gotta do a little bit more.

  Jeffrey Jones : What?

  Phineas Bogg : You know how to hit those pitches you taught me?

  Jeffrey Jones : Sure. I was clean-up man on my little league team.

  Phineas Bogg : How about teaching the Babe?

• Phineas Bogg : [Jeffrey is suddenly sad when he and Bogg see Yankee Stadium in 1927 New York]  What's wrong?

  Jeffrey Jones : [inaudible, he mouths the word]  Nothing.

  Phineas Bogg : Oh, come on, Jeff, you can tell me.

  Jeffrey Jones : [on the verge of tears]  Last time I was here was with my Dad. He used to take me to ball games all the time. We'd sit right behind the Yankee dugout. One time he caught a foul ball, and got the whole team to autograph it for me.

  Phineas Bogg : [Jeffrey breaks down, sobbing]  Your Dad sounds like a pretty good guy.

  Jeffrey Jones : The greatest. I don't want anybody to see me cry. They'll think I'm a sissy.

  Phineas Bogg : Why would they think that?

  Jeffrey Jones : 'Cause men aren't supposed to cry.

  Phineas Bogg : Says who? What about Napoleon at Waterloo? George Washington at Valley Forge. General Eisenhower at Bunker Hill.

  Phineas Bogg : [Jeffrey's sadness changes to momentary confusion]  Got ya!

• Cleopatra : [Bogg and Jeffrey know Cleopatra and Babe Ruth are in danger, so they "borrow" a car to escape]  I command you to stop this car.

  Phineas Bogg : No way. You're too good at gettin' into trouble.

  Cleopatra : I wasn't in any trouble until you showed up.

  Phineas Bogg : And stopped you and Luciano from kidnapping him.

  [Lucky Luciano's plan was to keep The Babe from hitting home run number 60] 

  Babe Ruth : What's a hood like Luciano gonna do for a girl like you, anyway?

  Cleopatra : Get me an audience with the Emperor.

  Babe Ruth : What Emperor?

  Cleopatra : Emperor Coolidge.

  Babe Ruth : [aside, to himself]  Whew, this dame's a nickel short.