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These are just my opinion. If you have favorites of
your own let me know what they are and I will post
them here. (revised 2-16-2000)

1. Field of Dreams - Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Burt Lancaster - This is probably the best overall baseball movie. The only problem is that there is very little actual baseball in the movie. Its the love of baseball that makes this movie so great.

2. Bull Durham - What real minor league baseball is really like. And Susan Sarandon rivals Gwen Verdon (from Damn Yankees) as the sexiest woman in a baseball movie. At times I've thought that both Bull Durham or Field of Dreams should be #1.

3. The Pride of the Yankees - The Lou Gehrig Story - Lou's one of my all time favorite players and the speech at the end at Yankee Stadium gets me every time.  Previously I rated this #1 but I saw it again in December of 1997 and it didn't hold up as well as I thought it did.  The baseball scenes weren't as realistic as I remember. Gary Cooper not being left handed didn't help.

4. Damn Yankees - The dream of a washed up older fan being changed into a great ball player is a great musical movie.

5. Bang the Drum Slowly (1973 version) - Robert Deniro and Michael Moriarty - a great movie and a great book.

6. The Stratton Story - Jimmy Stewart as one-legged White Sox pitcher, Monty Stratton and June Allyson is terrific. Its so sappy I can't believe Disney has not done a remake.

7. Major League - Charlie Sheen (as Wild Thing), Tom Berenger and Corbin Bernsen make this a great comedy.

8. The Natural - Robert Redford (although almost 50 when he made this movie) and his magical bat and a dozen other great actors make this a movie I can watch over and over. 

9. Eight Men Out - The best of several movies about the Black Sox Betting Scandal

10. Soul of the Game - This is a recent HBO movie about Jackie Robinson, Josh Gibson and Satchell Paige and how Jackie Robinson was chosen by the Dodgers over the other two to be the first Negro League player to play in the Majors.

 

Other Popular Choices
(In my order of preference)
Good Not So Good
  • A League of Their Own
  • When It Was A Game
  • Baseball - The PBS Documentary
  • The Sandlot
  • Rookie of the Year
  • Little Big League
  • The Scout
  • The Bad News Bears I
  • Cobb
  • Angels in The Outfield
    (original)
  • For Love of the Game
  • Angels In The Outfield (Disney remake)
  • Major League II
  • When It Was A Game II
  • The Grover Cleveland Story
  • Fear Strikes Out
  • The Pride of St. Louis
  • Bingo Long and the Traveling All-Stars
  • Major League III - (Back to the Minors)
  • Mr. Baseball
  • The Slugger's Wife
  • Mr. Destiny
  • It Happens Every Spring
  • Brewster's Millions
  • The Babe
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  • The Fan
  • Night Game
  • Pastime
  • Safe at Home
  • Bang the Drum Slowly (1956 version)
  • BASEketball
  • The Bad News Bears II - Breaking Training
  • The Bad News Bears III - Go to Japan
  • Ed
  • Stealing Home
  • Take Me Out to The Ball Game
  • Talent For The Game
  • Tiger Town
  • Taking Care of Business
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