History Characters / MajorLeague

* TradeYourPassionForGlory: In the second film he's ironically become very much like his rival and apparent polar opposite Roger Dorn. Vaughn has become obsessed with his image and money, becoming a corporate sellout. Naturally this also makes him a much less effective pitcher, as his drive is gone.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Once Taylor convinces him to snap out of it, he starts putting the team ahead of himself, [[spoiler:even after Vaughn accidentally sleeps with his wife]].

* FireForgedFriends: With Dorn, [[spoiler: even after Vaughn accidentally sleeps with his wife]].

* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: His fate in the second movie. All the money he'd been saying and investing over the course of his career is blown when he overspends to buy the Indians from Rachel Phelps and then brings in expensive, big name players like Parkman. It might have worked out for Dorn if the team had immediately continued their winning ways from the previous season... but team dysfunction and various players losing their edge or selling out meant the team did not start well and quickly drifted into last place. He's then forced to sell the team back to Phelps just to avoid losing everything.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: A baseball version. He has the talent with an ego to match.
* BadBadActing: In the American Express commercial. He reads his lines with [[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable weird emphasis]], then snaps his fingers a second too late. Ironically, he'd previously expressed an interest in going into acting on retirement.

* ThePrimaDonna: Until Taylor roughly snaps him out of it.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Juuuuuuust a bit outside." Though it was only said once, it's now all Bob Uecker's.

* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Well, more like Face of an Angel, Mind of a Bitch Owner.

* DentedIron: An old pitcher who has a weak arm and has to rely on illegally doctoring the baseball.

-->'''Harris''': Sure, now you come around! He's not fooled! *goes back to Hustler*

A Cuban import and voodoo practitioner who consistently hammers fastballs but completely whiffs on curveballs.

* TheBigGuy: The biggest guy on the team who can certainly crush fastballs with ease. [[spoiler: And curveballs by the end]].

* ScaryBlackMan: Very much played with. On the one hand he's a huge, dark skinned, very muscular guy who shaves his own head with an enormous knife and follows voodoo. On the other hand he's a friendly and jovial guy who (mostly) laughs off jabs at himself and his religion. Pretty much everyone (besides Harris) decide not to mess with him just due to his size and general weirdness.

* EvilDiva: A former showgirl and an utterly villainous woman.

* GoldDigger: Implied to be one.

* LackOfEmpathy: Her response when she finds out one of the players on her invitation list is dead? "Cross him ''off'', then."
* LesCollaborateurs: With Miami.

* SpringtimeForHitler: Her scheme to move the Indians to Miami in the first movie.

* PowerWalk: An epic ''solo'' power walk near the end of the movie, as his character's theme music plays over the stadium loudspeakers and the crowd goes wild. It helped make this a popular trend in real life baseball.

* DarkChick: She's the owner of the team, but ''definitely'' not on their side.

Lou's snarky assistant manager.

* TheChick: Becomes this more and more as the film goes on as the Indians start winning again and [[spoiler: Taylor starts winning her back]]. [[spoiler: She's definitely this by the end]].

* CheckPlease: He uses it when Dorn's wife seduces him.

* OhCrap: Rick's reaction in the first film to finding out his latest lay is [[spoiler: Dorn's wife]].
* PowerWalk: An epic ''solo'' power walk near the end of the movie, as his character's theme music plays over the stadium loudspeakers and the crowd goes wild.

* {{Jerkass}}: In addition to his prima donna ways, he needlessly antagonizes Vaughn [[spoiler: and cheats on his wife]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Once Taylor convinces him to snap out of it, he starts putting the team ahead of himself, [[spoiler: even after Vaughn accidentally sleeps with his wife]].

An outfielder and the team's leadoff man. He just showed up at camp, apparently not even on Phelps' list, and managed to impress coach Brown with his speed and determination. He sure as heck can run like (Bob) Hayes, but despite his assertions he sure as heck can't hit like (Willie) Mays.

A veteran starting pitcher for the team who doctors the ball with various materials, such as his own snot, due to his advanced age.

* ScaryBlackMan: Very much played with. On the one hand he's a huge, dark skinned, very muscular guy who shaves his own head with an enormous knife and follows voodoo. On the other hand he's a friendly and jovial guy who laughs off jabs at himself and his religion. Pretty much everyone (besides Harris) decide not to mess with him just due to his size and general weirdness.
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: After relying on his god all his life to bring him luck, Pedro finally decides, at his last at bat, he has to do it on his own. [[spoiler: And he does]].

The team manager who was promoted from the minor leagues.

* DeadpanSnarker: When you've seen it all, and what the Indians are, you're bound to be.

'''Parkman:''' ''[Parkman hits the ball out of the park]'' I'd, uh, call it the masturbator.

->'''Played By:''' Margaret Whitton

->'''Played By:''' Pete Vuckovich

->'''Played By:''' David Keith

* BadBadActing: In the American Express commercial. He reads his lines with [[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable weird emphasis]], then snaps his fingers a second too late.

* HeroicRROD: In ''Major League II'', Lou tries to rally the team and simultaneously give them a ReasonYouSuckSpeech, trying anything to lift the increasingly apathetic out of mediocrity. As he gets throws himself more and more into it, he abruptly realizes that he's suffering from a heart attack, and it takes him out of action for the remainder of the season.

* MightyGlacier: He's a power hitter packed with muscle. When running over Rube (who is not a little guy himself), at home plate, Parkman compares himself to a train.

An arrogant star catcher that joins the team in the second film. However he despises the motley team and refuses to make any attempts to bond with his new teammates. When he is traded he quickly becomes a nemesis to the Indians for the rest of the season.

-->'''Parkman:'' ''[After Vaughn throws a pitch during practice]'' What do you call that garbage?\\

* GoodIsImpotent: In the second film he has embraced a Hollywood version of Buddhism to the extent that he now seems more like a blissed out hippie. This robs him of a lot of competitive drive an ability, making him a much less talented player.
* ScaryBlackMan: Very much played with. On the one hand he's a huge, dark skinned, very muscular guy who shaves his own head with an enormous knife and follows voodoo. On the other hand he's a friendly and jovial guy who takes no offense jabs at himself and his religion. Pretty much everyone (besides Harris) decide not to mess with him just due to his size and general weirdness.

* HeroicRROD: In ''Major League II'', while Lou was giving a team ReasonYouSuckSpeech, he suffers a heart attack, which takes him out of action for the remainder of the season.

* {{Understatement}}: The aforementioned "Juuuuuuuuuuust a bit outside..."

* LookBehindYou: Haywood gets Hayes picked off of first by telling him his shoe's untied.