Favorite Baseball Movie
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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.
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@formallyforearms said in Favorite Baseball Movie:
The Natural, no question. Wilford Brimley played Pop so perfectly.
Diabetus!!!
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Love so many, I watched like 25 of them last month. Major League will probably always be my favorite
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The rookie. I cant imagine the feeling getting that first call to run out that bullpen
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It's not my favourite, but I want to bring it to peoples attention. It's a documentary from 2016 called Fastball. I noticed it on Amazon Prime (at least the Aussie version) a while ago but assumed it was one of those cheapo lame documentaries that Amazon is full of so didn't plan on watching it.
But I finally watched it recently and was surprised how much I liked it.
It's not great, but is worth a watch in my opinion. -
Screwball was really good. It's all about the Bosch and A-Rod scandal.
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for me its angels in the outfield with the natural being a close 2nd also liked 61
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@samguenther1987 said in Favorite Baseball Movie:
The Natural, or Field of Dreams.
The Natural first and a tie between FOD and Major League for me.
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@TEXAS10PT said in Favorite Baseball Movie:
If you have never seen it, Fastball is a good documentary type movie. Talks about Ryan, Feller and how they measure a fastball now.
It's very good. As is Knuckleball.
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@InTh3iLLCity41 said in Favorite Baseball Movie:
The rookie. I cant imagine the feeling getting that first call to run out that bullpen
Great movie as well. The part in the movie where he tells his son he's going to the show was tear inducing!
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In no particular order. They are all favorites.
Field of Dreams
Bull Durham
61*
The Natural
Moneyball
42
A League of Their Own
Major League
The Rookie
Eight Men Out
Bad News Bears
Pride of the Yankees
Fever Pitch Unrated
Sandlot
Mr Baseball
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Little big league (best baseball action as they use real players on opposing teams and former players as some of the twins)
Mr. Baseball (Tom Selleck pulls off being a ballplayer in this movie)
Moneyball (when it was in Starz I would legit watch it every day)
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For me it's a tossup between Major League and Field of Dreams.
Unpopular opinion: Bull Durham is one of the worst movies I've ever seen., and I don't get what people enjoy about it.
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Little Big League was/is my favorite. I don’t think it would have been what it was without the 94 strike.
We really haven’t had a good baseball movie released in a long time.
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Major League 2!!
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Field of Dreams, Moneyball, A League of Their Own, Benchwarmers. And lastly, Bull Durham.
Oh, and Major League.
And I forgot, even though it's not a movie, Eastbound and down.
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@t8nts_Windchill said in Favorite Baseball Movie:
Little big league (best baseball action as they use real players on opposing teams and former players as some of the twins)
I was an extra in that film. Just a face in the crowd.
Interesting note: The scenes that I was an extra for were filmed, If my memory serves, in early November in New Comiskey (the game was supposed to be in NY). There were actually snow flurries on the day. We were supposed to dress like it was summer. But if watch the scene when Cain makes a great catch against the wall you can see the crowd behind the dugout is all in long sleeves and dark colors. I was one of the few with actual short sleeves wearing a white t-shirt. I had layers on though and my jacket on my lap for between takes.
