When he’s not working at baseball, A’s reliever John Axford is all about the motion picture.
The veteran right-hander majored in film and television at Notre Dame and is an annual presenter and judge at the Milwaukee Film Festival. He has made Oscar picks for Good Morning America. He has even got an executive producer’s credit on a documentary, “The Reason.”
His success at making recent Oscar picks is impressive, even by non-pro athlete standards: 17-for-18 in 2013, 18-for-18 in 2014, 17-for-24 in 2015, 17-for-24 in 2016 and 19-for-24 this year.
He knows his cinema. He knows his baseball.