your favorite baseball movies

[juggster-rules]

what are your favorite baseball movies ?

 

[juggster-rules]

i like sandlot 1 a league of there own and angels in the outfield

 

[The Apatow Crew]

The Sandlot and Angels in the outfield.

 

[DCW]

Major League!

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Major League!

Oh yeah forgot about that one.

 

[Mister J]

Bull Durham

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

baseketball

one of the best spoof out there

 

[Halcohol]

If you guys ever get the chance, check out 61*.

It's the story of Thomas Jane as Mickey Mantle and Barry Pepper as Roger Maris trying to break Babe Ruth's home run record. It was made my Billy Crystal (one of the biggest baseball fans on the planet) for TV, but I rented it at Blockbuster.

It's a really, really good film about what it means to be a major athlete in the world's public view.

 

[primemover]

Field of Dreams always got me.

 

[*Dark_Phoenix*]

A league of their own... There's no crying in baseball!

 

[Ronny Shade]

The Natural owns all other baseball movies to baseball movie hell.

 

[Kable24]

Major League
Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
A League of Their Own

 

[Immortalfire]

The Rookie

 

[SoulManX]

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings


Great movie IMHO....

Tired of being treated like a slave by team owner Sallison Potter (Ted Ross), charismatic star pitcher Bingo Long (partially based on Satchel Paige and played by Billy Dee Williams) steals a bunch of Negro League players away from their teams, including Leon Carter (James Earl Jones portraying a Josh Gibson-like slugger) and Charlie Snow (aka "Carlos Nevada" and "Chief Takahoma", played by Richard Pryor, as a player forever trying to break into the segregated Major League baseball of the 1930's by masquerading as first a Cuban, then a Native American). They take to the road, barnstorming through small Midwestern towns, playing the local teams to make ends meet. One of the opposing players, 'Esquire' Joe Callaway (Stan Shaw), is so good that they recruit him.
Bingo's team becomes so outlandishly entertaining and successful, it begins to cut into the attendance of the established Negro League teams. Finally, Bingo's nemesis Potter is forced to propose a winner-take-all game: if Bingo's team can beat a bunch of all-stars, it can join the league, but if it loses, the players will return to their old teams. Potter has two of his goons kidnap Leon prior to the game as insurance, but he escapes and keys his side's victory.
Ironically, there is a Major League scout in the audience. After the game, he offers Esquire Joe (a thinly-veiled Jackie Robinson) a chance to break the color barrier; with Bingo's permission, he accepts. Leon foresees the decline of the Negro League as more players follow Esquire Joe's lead, but Bingo, ever the optimist, cheers him up by describing the wild promotional stunts he intends to stage to bring in the paying customers.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

For Love of the Game and The Rookie.

Mr. Baseball is pretty good too, I thought.

 

[ToddIsDead]

1. 61*
2. Sandlot
3. Bull Durham

 

[triplefive]

61*, Field of Dreams, For Love of the Game


ETA: oh, and Eight Men Out

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Yeah, Bull Durham and 61* were great too.

 

[JTStarkiller]

Field of Dreams, and to a lesser extent, Major League and The Sandlot

And not a movie, but The X-Files episode "The Unnatural" written and directed by Duchovny was quite good.

 

[triplefive]

And not a movie, but The X-Files episode "The Unnatural" written and directed by Duchovny was quite good.

one of my favourites.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Pride of the Yankees, The Natural, Eight Men Out, 61*

 

[The Chairman]

The Sandlot. Loved it since I was a kid.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Wats that movie with Snipes and Dineiro... the fan? Good film...

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Major League 2