Favorite baseball movies

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Posted By: John Grillo

Since I prefer comedies...here's my list.

1) Sandlot
2) Major League I
3) The Natural (It has a Dick Tracy flair to it).
4) Bull Durham
5) Eight Men Out
6) A League of Their Own

I want to add (even though it's hockey)

1) Slapshot

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Posted By: Jay Miller

The Natural is one of my favorite movies, not just baseball movies, ever.

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Posted By: runscott

Favorite sports movies: "Caddy Shack", "Tin Cup", "Bagger Vance", and "Happy Gilmore". Yikes - all golf!

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Posted By: Glen V

More great non-baseball movies - Hoosiers & Slapshot

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Posted By: Jason

How could I foget to mention Bull Durham which is probably in my top 3-5???

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Posted By: Jason

I thought this was baseball movies only? ?? What movie was the one about the ole Minor LEague record holder Roy Deam. He helped bring a black pitcher to the majors.....set time back in the 40s I think. For the love of the game maybe? Cant remember. Anyway my picks are
The Natural
Field of Dreams
8 Men out
Major League
The Rookie
Sandlot
The BAbe
Cobb
For the love of the Game (I think)
........there are others I cant think of.

Jason

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Posted By: jay behrens

How about The Fish that Ate Pittsburg.

Golf is not a sport. It's a good walk ruined

Jay

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Posted By: Adam J. Baxter

A list of my top ten baseball films:

1. Cobb
2. Eight Men Out
3. The Winning Team (Ronald Reagan as Grover C. Alexander)
4. Field of Dreams
5. 61*
5. The Natural
6. Soul of The Game (HBO movie about Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson & Jackie Robinson)
7. A League Of Their Own
8. The Babe
9. Bull Durham
10. Bang the Drum Slowly

Favorite Baseball Documentary: Ken Burns' Baseball

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Posted By: runscott 

I just bought "Field of Dreams" and watched it last night - made me think of this as a "positive" subject to post about. My top 10 baseball movies (counting the Ken Burns effort as a documentary):

1. The Natural
2. Eight Men Out
3. 61*
4. Field of Dreams
5. Bull Durham
6. A League of Their Own
7. Pride of the Yankees
8. Bad News Bears
9. Cobb
10. Major League

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Posted By: bimmy

field of dreams is by far my favorite baseball movie. nothing comes close.

major league
sandlot
pride of the yankees
cobb
a league of their own
the natural

all of you are missing out if youve never seen sandlot. its on tv a lot.

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Posted By: Nickinvegas

1. Ken Burn Baseball
2.100 Years of the World Series DVD
3.For Love of the Game(korny, but good)
4.Eight Men Out
5.Bad News Bears
6.Field of Dreams
7.Bull Durham
8.Angels in the Outfield
9.The Natural
10. Bad News Bears Part's 2-90!

Nick

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Posted By: ty_cobb

Bingo Long's Travelling All-Stars
(James Earl Jones)

Take Me Out To The Ball Game
(I always like the part where Kelly and Sinatra
pull out their T206 cards)

No 1 for me is The Natural, it won in the following poll of best baseball movies.

http://www.bostonbaseball.com/whitesox/baseball_extras/movies2.html

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Posted By: Kevin O

1. The Natural
2. Bad News Bears
3. A League of Their Own
4. Bull Durham
5. The Naughty Nineties (Not a baseball movie, per se, but it does have the entire "Who's on First?" routine)
6. Bang the Drum Slowly
7. Pride of the Yankees
8. Field of Dreams
9. Eight Men Out
10. The Unnatural (This is actually an X-Files episode, but it's fantastic. An alien who comes to earth to help pave the way for world domination sees a baseball game and decides to stay to play for the Roswell Grays. There are great references to Jackie and Josh Gibson, as well to integration in general. The team bus is magnificent.)

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Posted By: runscott

Will have to see it.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

My favorite of all: The Rookie. Maybe I'm 38 and realizing that there aren't many BB players older than I am anymore, so the Jim Morris story hit a responsive chord with me for that reason, but I just loved that movie. The look on Dennis Quaid's face when he gets called up to the Majors...priceless.

#2: Field of Dreams. I love that speech about how baseball is the one constant in all of America. Esp. out here in the West, where they seem to destroy everything every 20 years or so, the idea of a connection with the past is precious. That idea may be at the root of why I collect.

#3: Bull Durham. Crash Davis is the everyman hero trying to get another 2 weeks in the Show.

#4: Major League. Pure popcorn-chugging fun.

#5: Pride of the Yankees. The whole thing was done with such great love for its subject. How can you not choke up at the end? Besides, any movie with Babe Ruth playing himself has got to be fun.

The worst of all:

The Babe Ruth Story. Pure camp. I love the heil Hitler arm pump in the 1932 series. Charlie Root would have KO'd Ruth if he'd done anything like that.

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Posted By: Marty

Pride of St. Louis, starring Dan Dailey. A 1952 movie about Dizzy Dean. I have not seen this one for more than 30 years.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Bang the Drum Slowly
Eight Men Out
Bull Durham

Best baseball playing actor: Robert Redford.
Worst baseball playing actor: Gary Cooper.

Please nobody ask me if those are the only three I ever saw--they aren't.

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Posted By: dan - 823dek

1. The Natural- Easily the best, it identifies the heart and love for the game !
2. Pride of the Yankees - everything in life seemed honest back then -this one humbled me.
3. Field of dreams- different

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Posted By: B Kaz

#1 - Pride of the Yankee's (hands down!) Is there a better scene in a movie than when young Gehrig buys his way onto the sandlot team with a Hans Wagner, Tris Speaker, and Babe Ruth "A ROOKIE!" baseball cards? At least he gets to keep the Ruth

#2 - Field of Dreams (good book too!)
#3 - The Natural (I still get goose bumps when Hobbs hits the lights at the end)
#4 - Major League (You trying to tell me that Jesus Christ couldn't hit a curve ball?!)
#5 - Bull Durham (beaning a mascot is always funny)
#6 - 8 Men Out
#7 - Bang the Drum Slowly
#8 - Bad News Bears
hmmm... the pickins get slim after that.

Bill

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Posted By: Ben

Nobody has mentioned "Rookie of the Year" thus far...I am shocked and dissapointed

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Posted By: Mike

Does BaseketBall count?

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Posted By: Cycleback

While I've never been a fan of sports movies (or sports art for that matter), one of the most sublime movies I've experienced was 'Raging Bull.' At one point, I owned a pair of Jake LaMotta 1950s personal checks he used to purchase large (and I mean large) amounts of hard liquor. Anyone familiar with the movie and how LaMotta was portrayed will find the checks natural.

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Posted By: ramram

all I could ever wait for just before spring training was the movie "It Happens Every Spring". Surely somebody out there remembers this one. The school chemistry teacher, by accident, comes up with a mixture that makes the baseball "allergic" to wood. He takes his new invention and tries out for the lowly St. Louis team. Of course, he goes on to lead them to the pennant with his "hop" pitch. Some great humor to the movie, especially when his catcher uses the potion as hair tonic and another time when he injures his finger and has a wood splint put on it. Needless to say, he has a little trouble picking the doctored ball up after each pitch. A lighthearted must see from the old days. I haven't see it for many years but would love to run across it again (especially this time of year)!

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Posted By: TBob

1. The Natural
2. Bang the Drum Slowly
3. Eight Men Out
4. Field of Dreams (the book was 10x better)
5. Pride of the Yankees
6. Soul of the the Game
7. Damn Yankees
8. Boys of Summer (technically not a movie but great)
9. Sandlot
10. Fear Strikes Out

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

people with similar tastes in baseball movies have similar tastes in baseball cards?

T-Bob--ever notice that the BOOK of "The Natural" was a tad different, and --dare I say it--a tad better? (maybe I should just say "more realistic"--but hell, who needs realism: is spending most of your money on little squares, rectangles, circles and people shaped bits of cardboard realistic?)

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Posted By: Lee Behrens

I think I caught that movie one day in the middle and thought it was a Disney movie like "Flubber"

1. Field of Dreams, seems to capture the spirit of the game I love so much, but can't explain why.
2. Natural, I even have a one sheet from the theatre.
3. The Rookie, Great true baseball story.
4. Sandlot, Always entertaining
5. Eight Men Out, Did a nice job making it look realistic.
6. Bad News Bears
7. Bull Durham
8. League of their Own

A couple new ones not mentioned "For the Love of the Game" and "The Fan" (Wesley Snipes didn't look right in the batter box).

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Posted By: ramram

Damn Yankees has to be right up there. I think 90% of baseball fans would vote for that movie/play, just because of the title, even if they've never seet it.