Favorite Baseball Movie
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@Nanthrax_1 said in Favorite Baseball Movie:
I'll also put out 61*
Great movie about Maris and Mantle. Aaron Eckhardt plays a perfect Mantle in thisYou mean Thomas Jane
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No love for The Scout ?!?!? Peak Brendan Fraser. Joking
1A. Field of Dreams
1B. Bull Durham
1C. The Natural
1D. Major League
1E. For Love of The Game -
Hardball, thats why my team name is Kekambas every year
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For love of the Game probably has the best baseball footage, but I don’t remember loving the movie on the whole. I do really appreciate that Costner is a legit ball player. One of my pet peeves is baseball movies with actors who have clearly never held a bat or thrown a ball in their lives.
I’ve read that a lot of big leaguers thought Moneyball was a joke, but I really liked it.
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@SchnauzerFace said in Favorite Baseball Movie:
For love of the Game probably has the best baseball footage, but I don’t remember loving the movie on the whole. I do really appreciate that Costner is a legit ball player. One of my pet peeves is baseball movies with actors who have clearly never held a bat or thrown a ball in their lives.
I’ve read that a lot of big leaguers thought Moneyball was a joke, but I really liked it.
You mean Freddie Prinze Jr. in Summer Catch wasn't convincing as a pitcher ? How dare you
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The Benchwarmers
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The Sandlot
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@jhack9 said in Favorite Baseball Movie:
@Nanthrax_1 said in Favorite Baseball Movie:
I'll also put out 61*
Great movie about Maris and Mantle. Aaron Eckhardt plays a perfect Mantle in thisYou mean Thomas Jane
Yes!! Thomas Jane!! Haha I always get those 2 mixed up. Ya, not Two-face... The dude from The Mist!
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@samguenther1987 said in Favorite Baseball Movie:
The Natural, or Field of Dreams.
and although not completely about baseball as a horror fan I do enjoy the Battery for the most part.
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If you have never seen it, Fastball is a good documentary type movie. Talks about Ryan, Feller and how they measure a fastball now.
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I liked Mr. Baseball
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The Naked Gun
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Trouble With the Curve
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moneyball
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Lots of good ones on here already, I would add Pride of the Yankees and Cobb.
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Another one I do like is Bleacher Bums, I own most of the movie that were mentioned.
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I used to like Bang the Drum Slowly, but the guy playing the lead is a root.....
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For the Love of the Game (1999 Kevin Costner) is awesome because of the way they pitching is shown. Check it out.
Bull Durham I love too.
Has anyone seen the documentary The Battered Bastards of Baseball? So good. I think it's still available on Netflix.
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@SchnauzerFace said in Favorite Baseball Movie:
For love of the Game probably has the best baseball footage, but I don’t remember loving the movie on the whole. I do really appreciate that Costner is a legit ball player. One of my pet peeves is baseball movies with actors who have clearly never held a bat or thrown a ball in their lives.
I’ve read that a lot of big leaguers thought Moneyball was a joke, but I really liked it.
The ideas pioneered by Bill James and used by basically all of baseball now run entirely against baseball’s traditions and lore. Players are naturally resistant to being seen as just numbers, and they want to believe their special Magic is what wins games. They believe that a player that looks impressive and passes the “eye test” must always be more valuable than a fat kid that walks a lot. I understand their feelings. But they are wrong.
Another big and justified gripe is that the As success came mostly from the talented big three Zito Mulder Hudson, and they were brought into the org before any “moneyball” existed. Beanie may have gotten hidden value from guys like Hatteberg, but the big three (who were found by traditional scouts) were the engine.
Separately from that, the movie got a lot of specifics wrong about the people involved, particularly making Art Howe into a ignorant clown. That rubbed people the wrong way.
There are many articles on this, I think this is the best:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/09/the-many-problems-with-moneyball/245769/If you take it as a dramatization, not a documentary, it holds up fine.
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The Natural, no question. Wilford Brimley played Pop so perfectly.
