Baseball Movies!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Poll question: Baseball Movies!

Just saw "Mr. 3000" last night, enjoyed it, and it made me nostalgic for some of these older baseball movies.

There's way more than 9 or 10 great baseball movies so feel free to add to the list!

[wolfgirl]

1. Gary Cooper

and when the game was the GAME!

[Richardo]

2. "Angels in the Outfield" (1951)

It's the Pirates!

(Note: Not the idiotic Disney mess of 1994.)

[Lefty48197]

3. The Jackie Robinson Story

Starring an older Jackie Robinson, playing young Jackie Robinson.

[Gemini Cat]

34. I agree!

"The Jackie Robinson Story," best baseball movie ever.

[Sydnie]

4. 61

It was a movie about Mickey Mantel and babe's record. Set in 1961 - thus the name. Good ball movie and great "period" piece about baseball.

[2Design]

5. I liked this one too because it shows mickey in true light and

the problems he heaped no himself and that he got behind the other guy beating the record

[kariatari]

19. great great GREAT flick.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. Was this the one Billy Crystal directed? Was it in theaters or for cable?

[Sydnie]

26. Yes, Billy directed this one.

His tribute to his young yankee ball watching days with his father.

More info here -- http://imdb.com/title/tt0250934/

[Lavender Brown]

6. I love Eight Men Out

It has a great cast.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

28. Hey is that Jane Austen in your avatar? I visited her tomb at Winchester

Cathedral earlier this year... Great lady, great writer.

[Lavender Brown]

35. Yes

and I agree :)

[flamingyouth]

7. I really like 61, Field of Dreams and Bull Durham

I'm generally not a Kevin Costner fan, but I loved him in "Field of Dreams."

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

23. Yeah, Costner has a limited range, he works GREAT in some movies

and is a total stiff in others. Go figure! :shrug:

[chelsea0011]

8. "Eight Men Out".....Sayles is great

but Major League is alot of fun.

[dolo amber]

27. Definitely

Any baseball movie that ALSO has John Cusack in it is clearly the winner...:loveya:

[nutsnberries]

30. dolo amber, my first post and i get to say....

YES, YYYES, YYYYESSSS !!!! (kinda in an herbal essences way)

John Cusack ... mmmmmmmm... and the movie's pretty good too!

;-)

[Debi]

9. For Love of the Game

and no,it's not a Joe Trippi thing!

I liked the love story :loveya:

[miss_kitty]

10. Damn Yankees! with Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon and Ray Walston

"What we need is a pitcher that can HIT!"

i always loved that line, because for the first 15 or so years of the Mariners, i always said "What we need is a pitcher that can PITCH!"

[SidDithers]

11. Bull Durham...no question.

But the Baseball Furies from The Warriors were pretty cool too.



Sid

[FredScuttle]

14. I remember a quote from a film critic on the Furies

"Look like the Yankees, connect like the Mets"

[Beaverhausen]

12. Bull Durham is a great date movie as well as a great baseball movie

Love the toenail polishing scene!

[miss_kitty]

13. oh yeah. and 'Bang the Drum Slowly'

Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, as sad as Damn Yankees is funny

[never cry wolf]

15. Bang the Drum Slowly is a GREAT movie

Not all baseball, more human nature.

[ohiosmith]

16. It Happens Every Spring

[kodi]

17. best spitball in baseball. ever.

actually, i liked all of costner's baseball movies. and "for love of the game" is under-rated.

[Kat45]

18. My favorite is "Rhubarb" (1951, I think)

A crotchedy old rich guy gets adopted by a crotchedy cat, and when the old guy dies, he leaves the baseball team he owns to the cat. It's pretty funny, and I liked the cat--he took no shit from anyone!

[mailman82]

20. mailman82

Kill the umpire. William Bendix.

[kariatari]

21. Sandlot

"you're killin' me smalls!"

[Jokinomx]

33. I vote with you kariatari... I loved Sandlot....

I actually lived in a few miles from where they filmed the movie in Midvale, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. :-)

[jcappy]

24. Fear Strikes Out!!

Tony Perkins is not convincing as Jimmy Piersall,(I mean the player side of hm) but the movie is much better at the dramatic end than most sports movies. And perkins does capture Piersall's persona.

Yeah, it's a oldie--but worth it.

[KamaAina]

25. Bull Durham: Baseball *and* a Susan Sarandon fix!

"It is high.. it is far... it is.. gone!" </john-sterling>

[jbane]

29. Kill the Umpire...

Staring William Bendix and if anybody knows where I can find a copy I will pay a finders fee.

[Doctor_J]

31. bull durham is a chick flick

gimme Major League any day. Also, there was a made for HBO one about 10 years ago about Jackie (Blair Underwood), Satchel (Delroy Lindo) and Josh (Mykelti Williamson) that was very good. I forget the name though.

[argyl]

32. Gary Cooper as Lou Gehring,Babe Ruth as himself"Pride of the Yankees"

was my very favorite baseball movie of all time for years;now it's between it and "Eight Men Out."

The Babe himsrlf hasn't been treated so kindly on film."The Babe Ruth Story" with William Bendix was just awful and "The Babe" with John Goodman wasn't too much better.