In Major League (1989), according to director David S. Ward, Wesley Snipes was so bad at baseball, that there’s no scene of him actually throwing a ball

Snipes also insisted on trying to do it left handed

Ward told him “some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill” a line which Snipes later said changed his life

Wesley Snipes describing his audition for the film:

>I went, they’d flew me out for another audition. And what I thought was the final audition, like a screen test. When I landed, they literally brought me from the airport to the Studio. Dropped my bags there. The assistant said, ‘Hey, hello, welcome. Hey, they want you over at the field.’ I was dressed in a flight suit, in like a pilot’s flight suit and boxing shoes. Had no little league experience. Had none of that. So then I said okay. And when I got out to the field, there in the bleachers, in the stands on the field are all the other actors that are auditioning, fully dressed in baseball gear. In their baseball uniforms, fully dressed.

>And I’m like, ‘Okay, well I guess I had a great trip to California, I eat well.’ And yeah, ‘I’m going back to New York.’ They got me out there on the… Literally the guys started laughing at me when they saw me walk up, and they started to say, ‘Hey man, what are you doing here?’ I said, ‘Hey man, I’m here for the audition.’ They started falling out because I had no gear, no glove, no shoes, no cleats, nothing. And no experience. So when I finally ran around the bases and tried to turn from second to third and ended up way out in the outfield, because my feet, I had no traction. The cats are falling out in the stands. When I made it back to home plate, literally the producers, the other auditioners, the actors, everybody was laughing their ass off. I had to laugh too because I was like, ‘Hey man, what else can I do? I got no traction. I got boxing shoes on.’ Yeah. Then they took me back to the office and said, ‘Okay, you’re hired.’ Go figure that.