The Martian Kinotypes were created by the Cosmic Baseball Association in December 1996. The Kinotypes will be playing in the CBA Underleague during the 1997 Season.
The Kinotypes consist of films that have the word "Mars" in the title. The available draft pool for the team excludes those films that use Mars in the plot but do not include Mars in the film's title. Therefore, the movie version of H.G. Wells' book, War of the Worlds, is not eligible as a player. Wells himself, however, is the team's field manager.
Every image on this plate contains a hypertext link. Most of the links are to Mars-related sites on the World Wide Web. There are over 40 links to other sites. The idea is to let you randomly hyperhike around the environment in search of more Mars information. You will need to use your browser's BACK or maybe the BOOKMARK function if you want to return to this site.
A Trip to Mars, Pitcher
1910
A short film made by Edison
A Message from Mars, Thirdbase
1913
Aelita: Queen of Mars, Infield
1924
Soviet-made film depicting Mars as a bastion of Capitalism
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars, Pitcher
1938
Stars Buster Crabbe
Flight to Mars, Catcher
1951
Flying Disk Man From Mars, Infield
1951
Red Planet Mars, Pitcher
1951
Stars Peter Graves
Abbott & Costello Go To Mars, Outfield
1953
They crash on Venus, and never get to Mars
Invaders from Mars (Original), Pitcher
1953
Martian leader is a tentacled orb
Devil Girl from Mars, Secondbase
1954
Mars is ruled by women
A Martian In Paris, Pitcher
1961
French romantic comedy
The Day Mars Invaded Earth, Firstbase
1962
Martians stop humans from exploring Mars
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars, Pitcher
1964
Italian/Spanish comedy
The Maid and the Martians, Infield
1964
Stars Annette Funicello
Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Pitcher
1964
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Outfield
1964
Martians kidnap Santa Claus
Mars Needs Women, Leftfield
1966
Martians need human women to repopulate Mars
Don't Play With Martians, Pitcher
1967
French comedy
Mission Mars, Centerfield
1968
Invaders from Mars (Remake), Pitcher
1986
Remake of the 1953 version
Lobster Man from Mars, Infield
1989
Martians send the evil Lobster Man to steal Earth's air.
Martians Go Home, Rightfield
1990
Mars Attacks, Pitcher
1996
Stars Jack Nicholson as a human
H.G. Wells, Manager
Wrote War of the Worlds
Ray Bradbury, Coach
Wrote The Martian Chronicles
Tim Burton, Coach
Directed Mars Attacks Film
Orson Welles, Coach
1915-1985
Produced War of the Worlds Radio Program
Edgar Rice Burroughs, General Manager
Science Fiction Writer
Percival Lowell, Owner
1855-1916
Astronomer
Cydonia Fields Home Park
Seating Capacity: 120,009
The now-defunct Cosmic Outer Space League fielded two Mars-related teams in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The Marsville Marchmen took the field for the OSL in 1988 and were deactivated when the league was liquidated in 1993. The Marchmen played undistinguished cosmic baseball.
The second OSL team was created in 1992. The Barsoomtown Explorers consisting of Martian exploraton craft were a popular albeit performance-deficient team that competed in the league for two years. A Special Archive Plate detailing the 1992 Barsoomtown Explorers has been published.
The Martian Kinotypes are a team in the spiritual tradition of the earlier two teams. In fact, the Martian scopophiliac, Lowell Percival, who was the Explorer's General Manager now owns the Kinotypes. Edgar Rice Burroughs, the science fiction writer, was the Explorer's Field Manager and is now Kinotype's General Manager. So the links to the past exist in very tangible ways. Hopefully the Kinotypes will perform better on the not-so-level Cydonian fields than their predecessors.
