All excellent choices!
Hi Friends,
Those are all great ones to watch.
The last few weeks I had a ton of time on my hands in the hospital, so I watched a bunch of sports movies including:
Black & White are my favorites:
Fear Strikes Out (Jim Piersall)
Knute Rockne Story
Pride of the Yankees (Gehrig story with a bunch of real BB players in it!)
The Jimmy Stewart movie about the one-legged pitcher
Rocky Marciano Story
Color:
The Natural~~~ which I love
8 Men Out and Babe Ruth (John Goodman)~~~ for some reason these don't "feel right" when I watch them. lol, 8 Men Out is simply aggravating!
Cobb
As for documentaries, the Ken Burns is the best ( I love part 1 the best!)
and When it was a game is tremendous.
If you want to see other sports documentaries, my all-time favorites are:
History of the AFL (multiple parts and accurate!)~~~~ starts with Lamar Hunt getting denied a franchise and goes right thru the merger and beyond!
This covers EVERYTHING, and is my favorite work on any sport!
Bowling: There's a recent documentary style film called League of or Ordinary Gentlemen, and it follows Wayne Webb, Pete Webber etc.., around and shows what the PBA has become which to me is a ruination of my personal favorite sport which I bowled from age 4 to 40!
And there are several movies and documentaries of Howard Cosell, Jim McKay and Ali that are simply great!
Have a great day everyone and it's good to back here on net54: home of the greatest group of people I've had the pleasure of knowing!
Bill Hedin
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