NYC baseball-related cultural events (2011 edition)

I will be attending this on Thursday -- the Casey antitrust testimony is priceless.

Bob Hope and Humphrey Bogart in a commercial urging people to go to the ballpark? Jerry Koosman, the Mets pitcher, promoting carpooling? Those nuggets and more are part of “CURATOR’S CHOICE: RARE FILMS FROM THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME,” Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. David Filipi, director of film and video at the Wexner Center for the Arts, who has been compiling the annual collections, said he is here presenting an encore of his first compilation, from 2004.

Other highlights, Mr. Filipi said, include footage of Casey Stengel, Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle testifying before Congress about baseball’s antitrust status, and “Tom Seaver in the ugliest leisure suit you’ve ever seen.” 7 p.m., Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100, bam.org; $12.