Best Baseball Movies

PEOPLESCHICKEN · Feb 17, 2019

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For its time this one was awful

Pure Steel · Feb 17, 2019

Indrid Cold said:
That pitched looked like he was throwing BP to a three year old

Great swing also.....Jim Carrey should do the sequel......

Mondo Jay · Feb 17, 2019

black francis said:
"When god made man
he made em out of string
he had too much left
so he gave em that thing"

or something like that

Thank you God!

The Q · Feb 17, 2019

Major league 2 is funny cause Harry Doyle steals the show. But beyond that, yeah.

A movie I saw as a kid and haven’t seen since is tiger town. I liked it a lot then. I wonder how it would be now.

For love of the game is pretty good. And vin scully is fantastic.

The phenom is on Netflix and is arming and accurate all at once

thedddd · Feb 17, 2019

black francis said:
Very good movie

The whole thing is on Youtube for free:

wazzu31 · Feb 17, 2019

61 because it was anti PC

And trouble with the curve was great just because Eastwood is the Babe or acting and directing.

Zoop · Feb 17, 2019

1. the natural
2. Field of Dreams
3. Eight men out

JohnU · Feb 17, 2019

thedddd said:
The whole thing is on Youtube for free:

Thanks for this. Better than Bull Durham by a mile.
Baseball scenes are very realistic.

Voltaire26 · Feb 17, 2019

Kinda of love story wrapped around baseball ... bonus points from being about Detroit ....

For the Love of the Game.

blstoker · Feb 18, 2019

Ok, baseball movies I liked, no particular order (some I haven't seen since I was a kid):

The Sandlot
Summer Catch
Major League
Major League 2
Major League: Back to the Minors
For Love of the Game
Rookie of the Year
Little Big League
Mr. Baseball
Field of Dreams
Angels in the Outfield (90s version)
Trouble with the Curve
Moneyball
A League of Their Own
Hardball
The Rookie

I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of them. I've seen Bull Durham and The Natural, but I was a kid and thought they were boring - don't remember a thing about them - so probably need to watch them again.

DragonfromTO · Feb 18, 2019

The Q said:
Major league 2 is funny cause Harry Doyle steals the show. But beyond that, yeah.

A movie I saw as a kid and haven’t seen since is tiger town. I liked it a lot then. I wonder how it would be now.

For love of the game is pretty good. And vin scully is fantastic.

The phenom is on Netflix and is arming and accurate all at once

I liked it at the time too but like most young kids I didn't really know much about what I actually liked yet. But I do remember thinking "why is the guy from 'Jaws' in this? He must be doing someone a favor or something"

DragonfromTO · Feb 18, 2019

I keep seeing it listed, did/do people actually like "Trouble With the Curve"? Even if you like the underlying ideas and general themes they just got so much "baseball stuff" wrong.

JohnU · Feb 18, 2019

There are a ton of 'baseball' movies that are amusing or even interesting to people who technically understand the plot is connected to a vague storyline.

One I recall was a TV puke-storm called "Murder at The World Series" which was a lame-ass drama about some rookie who gets called up from the minors to pitch the W.S. I mean, one phone call to your neighbor who follows the game would tell you that script is missing a key fact or two. The acting and dialogue follows what you should discern is 90 minutes of filler on the network that showed it.

Any of those Disney-inspired 'angels' movies or 12-year-olds who show the Yankees that they ain't really seen a curve ball ... if you want kids to care about baseball, I guess they serve a purpose.

The worst was one called The Rookie, about this guy Steve Nebraska who comes out of Mexico for some reason to pitch for -- who else -- the Yanks in this W.S. game where he throws 81 pitches, all for strikes ... or 9 immaculate innings -- to confound the Cardinals who get cameos from Ozzie Smith and some others.

Seriously, if you plan to produce a movie script and have that talent/backing/clout, why not at least attempt to do something with reality?

I won't get into the life stories of Gehrig, Monte Stratton or the others -- those are movies that Gary Cooper or Jimmy Stewart did probably to complete a contract obligation with the studio. The scripts in those movies just defy decency, even during the 1940s.

I was OK with "Natural" until the final home run was so outlandishly National Lampoon as to be a facepalm moment. I mean, just let it clear the wall. It's the same thing without the phony-ass meltdown of the entire electrical system.

The Q · Feb 18, 2019

JohnU said:
There are a ton of 'baseball' movies that are amusing or even interesting to people who technically understand the plot is connected to a vague storyline.

One I recall was a TV puke-storm called "Murder at The World Series" which was a lame-ass drama about some rookie who gets called up from the minors to pitch the W.S. I mean, one phone call to your neighbor who follows the game would tell you that script is missing a key fact or two. The acting and dialogue follows what you should discern is 90 minutes of filler on the network that showed it.

Any of those Disney-inspired 'angels' movies or 12-year-olds who show the Yankees that they ain't really seen a curve ball ... if you want kids to care about baseball, I guess they serve a purpose.

The worst was one called The Rookie, about this guy Steve Nebraska who comes out of Mexico for some reason to pitch for -- who else -- the Yanks in this W.S. game where he throws 81 pitches, all for strikes ... or 9 immaculate innings -- to confound the Cardinals who get cameos from Ozzie Smith and some others.

Seriously, if you plan to produce a movie script and have that talent/backing/clout, why not at least attempt to do something with reality?

I won't get into the life stories of Gehrig, Monte Stratton or the others -- those are movies that Gary Cooper or Jimmy Stewart did probably to complete a contract obligation with the studio. The scripts in those movies just defy decency, even during the 1940s.

I was OK with "Natural" until the final home run was so outlandishly National Lampoon as to be a facepalm moment. I mean, just let it clear the wall. It's the same thing without the phony-ass meltdown of the entire electrical system.

I believe it was called The Scout, not The Rookie, which was based on a true story.

Also Steve Nebraska threw like 112 mph or something like that IIRC.

fknhippie · Feb 18, 2019

Funny, two of my favorites have James Earl Jones in them..how can you not like them.

R.J. MacReady · Feb 18, 2019

ElTexan said:
A League of Their Own

How the hell do you even find a thread from March of 2015?

Dolemite censored · Feb 18, 2019

No such thing.

mcnabb7542 · Feb 18, 2019

1.Sandlot
2.Love of the Game
3. Major League 2
4. 61
5. Moneyball

Pokes-WalkingBoss · Feb 18, 2019

Mr. Baseball

Jack Elliot "We're not athletes, we're baseball players"

JohnU · Feb 18, 2019

The Q said:
I believe it was called The Scout, not The Rookie, which was based on a true story.

Also Steve Nebraska threw like 112 mph or something like that IIRC.

Yes you are correct. The movie was horrible.

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