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'''''Baseball Bugs''''' is a 1946 [[Warner Bros.]] ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' theatrical [[animated cartoon]] directed by [[Friz Freleng]].<ref name=Beck>{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |date=1989 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0894-2 |page=164}}</ref> The short was released on February 2, 1946, and stars [[Bugs Bunny]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/58/mode/2up |pages=58–62}}</ref>

In the [[short film|short]], Bugs Bunny singlehandedly defeats the "Gas-House Gorillas", a [[baseball]] team of hulking, cigar-chomping bullies. The cartoon has been called Bugs "at his best" and is still referenced by baseball fans and observers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/12/entertainment/la-et-bugs-bunny-20101012|title = Bugs Bunny, role model with a cottontail| website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date = 12 October 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/05/09/looney-tunes-help-baltimore-orioles/|title=Looney Tunes Offer to Help Losing Baltimore Orioles|date=9 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/cut4/celebrate-national-bugs-bunny-day-with-his-pitching/c-274506070|title = This National Bugs Bunny Day, let's remember his simply unhittable pitching career| website=[[MLB.com]] }}</ref>

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