Favorite baseball movie
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@SDwinder said in Favorite baseball movie:
@whitejw98 said in Favorite baseball movie:
My favorite is either major league or field of dreams, depending on whether I wanna laugh or I'm feeling sentimental lol. Unpopular opinion: Bull Durham is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, baseball or otherwise. I don't get how it always winds up on best of lists.
Well if you played minor league ball, it might hit home a little bit more. I was playing in the Carolina League the year it came out in 1988. Played many times at that exact ballpark. They had filmed summer scenes the winter before. Notice the cold air fog when guys would breathe. I believe it was released in May 1988 and the stands were packed once the movie came out. It was like a carnival there. Lots of fun. I loved the scene when the guys needed a night off so they flooded the field the night before. When I watch Bull Durham now, its like a time capsule back to 1988.
@SDwinder Did you play against the Winston-Salem Spirits?
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No mention of the saddest baseball movie ever: Hardball
RIP G-Baby
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@NCStateHokie said in Favorite baseball movie:
@SDwinder said in Favorite baseball movie:
@whitejw98 said in Favorite baseball movie:
My favorite is either major league or field of dreams, depending on whether I wanna laugh or I'm feeling sentimental lol. Unpopular opinion: Bull Durham is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, baseball or otherwise. I don't get how it always winds up on best of lists.
Well if you played minor league ball, it might hit home a little bit more. I was playing in the Carolina League the year it came out in 1988. Played many times at that exact ballpark. They had filmed summer scenes the winter before. Notice the cold air fog when guys would breathe. I believe it was released in May 1988 and the stands were packed once the movie came out. It was like a carnival there. Lots of fun. I loved the scene when the guys needed a night off so they flooded the field the night before. When I watch Bull Durham now, its like a time capsule back to 1988.
@SDwinder Did you play against the Winston-Salem Spirits?
For them. Never stayed overnight in Durham. Just a day trip from WS. Cool to see the exact unis in the movie.
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@SDwinder PM sent.
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Money Ball, 42
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All of you are wrong:
No No: A Documentary is the greatest baseball movie ever made about maybe the greatest and most unbelievable story in baseball history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCH4fAHtKBo
You're welcome... (2nd Place goes to A League of Their Own)
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Calvin Marshall
Everybody Wants Some
Undrafted
Bad News Bears 2004
Hardball
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Major League
Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
Moneyball.Beef I have with Moneyball (book and movie) is they never mention a certain trio of great SPs... seems important, no?
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The Sandlot
Field of Dreams
A League of Their Own
Fever Pitch (don't hate)
Bad News Bears (Original)Documentary for Fastball, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Catching Hell and Baseball A Ken Burns Film are all incredible.
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@Collin_SDS said in Favorite baseball movie:
The Sandlot
Field of Dreams
A League of Their Own
Fever Pitch (don't hate)
Bad News Bears (Original)Documentary for Fastball, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Catching Hell and Baseball A Ken Burns Film are all incredible.
Ken Burns has to be the best documentary! I have never watched Fever Pitch but I’ll give it a try for sure
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The fanatic is also great
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@Collin_SDS said in Favorite baseball movie:
The Sandlot
Field of Dreams
A League of Their Own
Fever Pitch (don't hate)
Bad News Bears (Original)Documentary for Fastball, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Catching Hell and Baseball A Ken Burns Film are all incredible.
Great choices. I haven't watched Fever Pitch, but looked up the trailer, and that was funny. I like Field of Dreams and the Sandlot, but haven't seen the others.
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I also can't believe no one has mentioned bang the drum slowly seeing as it deserves a spot among the best baseball movies.
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@Breadsticks21221 said in Favorite baseball movie:
@Collin_SDS said in Favorite baseball movie:
The Sandlot
Field of Dreams
A League of Their Own
Fever Pitch (don't hate)
Bad News Bears (Original)Documentary for Fastball, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Catching Hell and Baseball A Ken Burns Film are all incredible.
Ken Burns has to be the best documentary! I have never watched Fever Pitch but I’ll give it a try for sure
I love 98% of Ken Burns Baseball, but I have to say Ty Cobb got shafted due to Burns not doing the necessary research to paint Cobb in a more objective light. He just took Al Stump's (highly fictionalized) book and ran with it. Other than that I love that film.
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@CRGDVD said in Favorite baseball movie:
@Breadsticks21221 said in Favorite baseball movie:
@Collin_SDS said in Favorite baseball movie:
The Sandlot
Field of Dreams
A League of Their Own
Fever Pitch (don't hate)
Bad News Bears (Original)Documentary for Fastball, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Catching Hell and Baseball A Ken Burns Film are all incredible.
Ken Burns has to be the best documentary! I have never watched Fever Pitch but I’ll give it a try for sure
I love 98% of Ken Burns Baseball, but I have to say Ty Cobb got shafted due to Burns not doing the necessary research to paint Cobb in a more objective light. He just took Al Stump's (highly fictionalized) book and ran with it. Other than that I love that film.
Yeah, that is true but it was very interesting regardless. I learned sooo much
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@Breadsticks21221 said in Favorite baseball movie:
@CRGDVD said in Favorite baseball movie:
@Breadsticks21221 said in Favorite baseball movie:
@Collin_SDS said in Favorite baseball movie:
The Sandlot
Field of Dreams
A League of Their Own
Fever Pitch (don't hate)
Bad News Bears (Original)Documentary for Fastball, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Catching Hell and Baseball A Ken Burns Film are all incredible.
Ken Burns has to be the best documentary! I have never watched Fever Pitch but I’ll give it a try for sure
I love 98% of Ken Burns Baseball, but I have to say Ty Cobb got shafted due to Burns not doing the necessary research to paint Cobb in a more objective light. He just took Al Stump's (highly fictionalized) book and ran with it. Other than that I love that film.
Yeah, that is true but it was very interesting regardless. I learned sooo much
It really is great at putting you right there in so many of those great, historic moments.
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Field of dreams
Major league
The natural
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@Breadsticks21221 said in Favorite baseball movie:
Ken Burns has to be the best documentary! I have never watched Fever Pitch but I’ll give it a try for sure
Fever Pitch is a romantic comedy with baseball as a background mechanic. It is actually a remake of a film from the UK which has the same premise but about soccer.
The other fun fact about the US version of Fever Pitch is they actually had the film 100% complete but ended up filming parts of the end because of the Red Sox unpredictable World Series run in 2004.
Ken Burn's Baseball is incredible for anyone wanting a real history lesson on baseball.
