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Jackie Robinson has got a new movie — 42 — about him
coming out in 2013. Who else needs one?

After two exhausting rounds of voting — in which I had to write over 1000 words per post — we have finally reached the final vote, where we will determine the single more deserving baseball personality, the fella worth a quality Hollywood movie.

Here’s the poll. I encourage you not to vote for just the names you recognize, but the stories you think move-worth.

And follow the jump for the brief explanations of the players/personalities in case you missed them in the previous rounds.
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Current Leader: Ro! Ber! To! Ro! Ber! To!
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Our quest to find a movie-worthy story continues today as we vote on the second round of contestants.

Here’s the top five from Round 1:

1. Roberto Clemente 14.5% (77 votes)

2. Satchel Paige 13.94% (74 votes)

3. Moe Berg 11.11% (59 votes)

4. Branch Rickey 9.79% (52 votes)

5. Bill Veeck 8.47% (45 votes)

Here are the Round 2 contestants, our final grouping:
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Alright. There was a bagillion nominations, so we’re going to have to break this down a bit.

Newcomers to this endeavor should know: We are looking for the next great Hollywood baseball movie. Not a documentary, per se, as several of these players already have such. No, we want a Moneyball quality film made about one of these amazing men.

Below the jump will be a breakdown of the nominees, followed by the poll.
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If this doesn’t make for a good movie, then what does?

Jim Morris has one. Joe Jackson has several. Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, and Ty Cobb all have movies — and even Billy Beane has one now — but who still needs one?

This is a potent question because — as we all know — movie executives read NotGraphs with regularlity, so if we as a group decide on, say, the top five players who need baseball movies made about their lives, WE CAN FULLY ANTICIPATE SAID PLAYERS TO HAVE A MOVIE MADE WITHIN THE NEXT TWO YEARS. Counting from the moment we finishing crowd-sourcing the screenplay, naturally.

So who out there needs a movie — players or executives that either do not have a movie about them or only have a crappy one? My first choices include:

• Roberto Clemente
• “Three Finger” Mordecai Peter Centennial “Miner” / “Brownie” Brown
• Branch Rickey *
• Ron Santo
• Eddie Gaedel
• Dick Allen

* The upcoming Jackie Robinson movie 42 apparently has Harrison Ford playing Branch Rickey in a prominent role, but Rickey’s accomplishments merit a movie all to the themselves.

So whom else deserve consideration? Who on this list does not deserves consideration? Debate, and then we’ll vote.

ASIDE: Which one of you nerds wrote this on Dick Allen’s Wikipedia page? “Dick Allen was a true professional singer. He sang in a high, delicate tenor that belied his powerful body.”