friz freleng baseball bug have become one of the most well know bug bunny cartoon of all and so much so that it be reference in hugely popular the sitcom friends in such a way that take for grant that the audience would recognise it . commonly know a that one where bug take on a whole baseball team and play all the position and baseball bug bring back many a fond memory from my childhood . watch it today and it a fairly standard cartoon largely make up of visual gag of vary quality and the best involve a highly unconventional batboy . the main reason it have become semi legendary would seem to be entirely down to it ingenious premise of pit the rabbit against a whole team of thuggish ball player . freleng do some interesting thing with the premise but you can not help but feel a wacky director like bob clampett could have make so much more of it . another problem with baseball bug be the more than usually abundant use of old reference that inescapably date the cartoon . for cartoon aficionado like myself and these reference point always prove interesting ( and baseball bug include my favourite regularly use say and be this trip really necessary . and which always crack me up ) but to most people they will prove perplexing and the fact that the cartoon end with one of these forgotten catchphrase make for a somewhat anticlimactic finale . nevertheless and baseball bug be a fun short which i always enjoy see and which be not wholly undeserving of it reputation a a classic and even if it do pale in comparison to the truly great warner cartoon .