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This decision is, to be sure, an insult to such directors as Chuck Jones, Robert Clampett, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson and Frank Tashlin, among others; voice artists Mel Blanc and June Foray; and composer Carl Stalling — and to the history and art of animation itself.

High point: The murderers’ row of animators — Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Art Babbitt, Winsor McCay — honored for their careers in 1974.

Best extras: Before the main event, viewers can watch the eight-minute, 1939 color short “The Bookworm” directed by animation pioneers Friz Freleng and Hugh Harman.

Several other cartoons from this period also featured baseball, including “Porky’s Baseball Broadcast,” which came out in 1940 and, like “Baseball Bugs,” was directed by Freleng.

But as Greg Ford, who produced the 1994 documentary “Freleng Frame By Frame,” said, the earlier cartoon wasn’t nearly as good.