More summer stuff: Favorite/best baseball movie

[Good Knight Sweetheart]

Not even gonna make this a poll question.
Add yours:

Field of Dreams - best
A League of Their Own - 2nd best
Rookie of the Year
Mr. Baseball

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[USFSucks]

Field of Dreams. Easily the best. Bull Durham is amazing and For the Love of the Game has some great baseball scenes and a pretty solid baseball story, if you can just remove the shitty love story

 

[Auggie25]

Major League

 

[CommuterBob]

Bull Durham
Major League
The Sandlot
A League of their Own

 

[USFSucks]

I must be the only person who thinks A League of Their Own is a steaming pile of shit

 

[Ace of Knights]

Sandlot hands down. Followed by Moneyball, Field of Dreams, and Angels in the Outfield.

 

[UCFKnightfan08]

Bull Durham
Major League

A couple favorite scenes:

nsfw language

 

[cnsaguy]

Does Eastbound and Down count? If so, it wins.

 

[My_Lament_Dreams]

 

[USFSucks]

Not sure how I missed Major League. But yes that has to be on there

 

[1ofTheseKnights]

Major League far & away. A League of Their Own is very good in its place in 90s lore along with Rookie of the Year.

I also liked Moneyball & Trouble With the Curve. Two notable omissions.

Awful but so bad they're almost good: Little Big League Summer Catch. Movies where I can't believe no one along the way stopped their production.

@Whataknight can whatachart these for us.

 

[barrister1602]

A League of their Own sucks ass. It is an abomination to put it on the same list as Field of Dreams. Also, any baseball movie list that does not contain Eight Men Out and The Natural is invalid. You young lil fukrs watch the last scene from Eight Men Out then go find the whole movie.

 

[Whataknight]

Long Gone is the best baseball movie. End of story

 

[1ofTheseKnights]

Tom Hanks character alone makes A League of Their Own solid.

Bang the Drum Slowly also solid AF.

 

[Good Knight Sweetheart]

Field of Dreams. Easily the best. Bull Durham is amazing and For the Love of the Game has some great baseball scenes and a pretty solid baseball story, if you can just remove the shitty love story

This is why I can't add Bull Durham to my list. The side story ruined it.

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[CommuterBob]

Long Gone is the best baseball movie. End of story

great movie, but not enough people have seen it. Probably my favorite William Petersen role.

Also, The Rookie was a great movie.

 

[CommuterBob]

A League of their Own sucks ass. It is an abomination to put it on the same list as Field of Dreams. Also, any baseball movie list that does not contain Eight Men Out and The Natural is invalid. You young lil fukrs watch the last scene from Eight Men Out then go find the whole movie.

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I'd like The Natural more if they didn't change the ending from the book. What's funny is that's the iconic part of the movie, yet it's totally wrong.


And you're just mad they didn't have a shower scene in A League of Their Own.

 

[barrister1602]

And you're just mad they didn't have a shower scene in A League of Their Own.

You got me ... nothing I'd like to see more than Rosie O'Donnell's huge, hairy ass.

 

[barrister1602]

Tom Hanks character alone makes A League of Their Own solid.

I love Tom Hanks but even he couldn't save that feminist dumpster fire of a movie. He had one funneh line:

 

[barrister1602]

I'd like The Natural more if they didn't change the ending from the book. What's funny is that's the iconic part of the movie, yet it's totally wrong.

Yeah, different from book but love it anyway:

 

[SublimeKnight]

No one picked the movie where Joey from Friends scouts a monkey to pitch for a professional baseball team?

 

[SublimeKnight]

Yeah, different from book but love it anyway:

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One of my favorite movies growing up, baseball or otherwise. It almost convinced me that baseball is watchable... Almost.

 

[Happy Hands]

Kevin Costner is a horrible actor, but Bull Durham is still one of the best back and forth with Major League.

Does Baseketball count( lest someone ask about a basketball movie next...Teen Wolf, Hoosiers, Space Jam and White Men Can't Jump btw)?

 

[My_Lament_Dreams]

More decent-ish baseball movies (not saying they are good or not):
The Scout
The Fan
My 3000
The Babe
And my its so stupid but I laugh pleasure:
the Benchwarmers

 

[AlumKnight02]

The Pride of the Yankees

 

[AlumKnight02]

61*

 

[KnighttimeJoe]

Field of Dreams #1.

We really should be talking about the worst one. The Babe was not only the worst baseball movie ever made, but one of the worst movies period. I can't even come up with enough stuff to say about that shitty shit flick.

 

[fabknight]

Bench Warmers.

 

[UCFKnight85]

The Sandlot (GOAT)
Field of Dreams
Bull Durham
Major League
For Love of the Game
A League of Their Own
Bad News Bears

Any baseball movie will do, really. In terms of sports films, baseball was probably produced the best movies.

 

[KnighttimeJoe]

The Sandlot (GOAT)
Field of Dreams
Bull Durham
Major League
For Love of the Game
A League of Their Own
Bad News Bears

Any baseball movie will do, really. In terms of sports films, baseball was probably produced the best movies.

Where is Moneyball? Seriously, that's a great flick.

 

[Happy Hands]

Field of Dreams #1.

We really should be talking about the worst one. The Babe was not only the worst baseball movie ever made, but one of the worst movies period. I can't even come up with enough stuff to say about that shitty shit flick.

Bad actors(Costner) can sometimes be in good movies. And good actors (John Goodman) can sometime be in bad movies.

James Earl Jones carried Costner's sorry ass for that film. In the book Jones' character is actually JD Sallinger. It's also awkward when a black character has some giant romantic speech about how dead baseball players from the 20s and 30s point back to a better time. The film is emotionally satisfying, but I also have father issues (which is probably also why I like Wes Anderson movies) so I'm it target audience.

 

[KnighttimeJoe]

Bad actors(Costner) can sometimes be in good movies. And good actors (John Goodman) can sometime be in bad movies.

James Earl Jones carried Costner's sorry ass for that film. In the book Jones' character is actually JD Sallinger. It's also awkward when a black character has some giant romantic speech about how dead baseball players from the 20s and 30s point back to a better time. The film is emotionally satisfying, but I also have father issues (which is probably also why I like Wes Anderson movies) so I'm it target audience.

You could have saved us the pain of having to read through your drivel and put this first.

 

[CommuterBob]

Where is Moneyball? Seriously, that's a great flick.

I forgot about Moneyball because Jonah Hill ruined it.

 

[Happy Hands]

You could have saved us the pain of having to read through your drivel and put this first.

You're a drivel.

 

[KnighttimeJoe]

You're a drivel.

Don't make me tell your daddy.

 

[Knight_Light]

A League of their Own sucks ass. It is an abomination to put it on the same list as Field of Dreams.

Ditto that but have to disagree with you on the Natural...as one who was actually in college when the Natural came out...that might have been Redford's last good movie (probably because he didn't direct it).

 

[UCFKnight85]

Bad actors(Costner) can sometimes be in good movies. And good actors (John Goodman) can sometime be in bad movies.

James Earl Jones carried Costner's sorry ass for that film. In the book Jones' character is actually JD Sallinger. It's also awkward when a black character has some giant romantic speech about how dead baseball players from the 20s and 30s point back to a better time. The film is emotionally satisfying, but I also have father issues (which is probably also why I like Wes Anderson movies) so I'm it target audience.

I was confused at that point too. Granted it didn't' really detract from the story or the movie, but I found it odd hearing a black man opining for the days of the 20's and 30's.

All is forgiven though when hearing JEJ slowly say "BASE-ball"

 

[Ace of Knights]

No one picked the movie where Joey from Friends scouts a monkey to pitch for a professional baseball team?

Ed. I loved that movie when I was a child. But I watched it again about a year ago and it is just really really bad.

 

[UCFKnight85]

Where is Moneyball? Seriously, that's a great flick.

It's a good movie but I found it to be more about sabermetrics and the characters than baseball itself. It doesn't have the curb appeal of the others.

 

[KnighttimeJoe]

Ditto that but have to disagree with you on the Natural...as one who was actually in college when the Natural came out...that might have been Redford's last good movie (probably because he didn't direct it).

Well, seeing that Out of Africa won best picture the next year, you'd be wrong. Sneakers and Legal Eagles weren't bad either.