Great Baseball Movies

[Keith1701]

Field of Dreams FTW. Worth buying just for James Earl Jones's speech at the end.

This is one of the greatest movies of all times.

 

[ElScoob]

Major League and Eight Men Out definitely top my list. I do like Field Of Dreams as well... but mostly for James Earl Jones, and especially for the scene where Costner first shows up at his apartment and JEJ tries to blow him off. Jones really cracks me up in that sequence...

Terence Mann: I'm going to beat you with a crowbar until you leave.
Ray Kinsella: You can't do that.
Terence Mann: There are rules here? No, there are no rules here.
[advances with crowbar]
Ray Kinsella: You're a pacifist!
Terence Mann: [stops] Shit.

and

Terence Mann: Oh, my God.
Ray Kinsella: What?
Terence Mann: You're from the sixties.
Ray Kinsella: [bashfully] Well, yeah, actually...
Terence Mann: [spraying at Ray with a insecticide sprayer] Out! Back to the sixties! Back! There's no place for you here in the future! Get back while you still can!

And the Big Speech, of course... "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball..."

--g

 

[RobertScorpio]

I'd go with THE NATURAL..best baseball movie ever....and a shout-out goes to DS9's Emissary. Best use of baseball as a way to explain linear existences!!!

Rob

 

[Super Grover]

Major League
Major League II only for the scene of Omar Epps jumping over the catcher to tag home plate.
For love of the Game, Costner does two kinds of movies well, Westerns and Sports movies. Still can't believe this was a Sam Raimi film.
61*
Bull Durham

I should add The Bad News Bears both Matthau and Bolly Bob Thornton versions and Benchwarmers, Pretty decent for a Rob Schneider movie.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Major League
Major League II only for the scene of Omar Epps jumping over the catcher to tag home plate.
For love of the Game, Costner does two kinds of movies well, Westerns and Sports movies. Still can't believe this was a Sam Raimi film.
61*
Bull Durham

I should add The Bad News Bears both Matthau and Bolly Bob Thornton versions and Benchwarmers, Pretty decent for a Rob Schneider movie.

Thorton's BAD NEWS BEAR was not good..sorry. Mathau's was far far better...IMO...

Rob

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Now that some great baseball movies have been listed, how about some memorably BAD baseball movies? The "Plan Nine From Outer Space" of baseball movies, is, without question, "The Babe Ruth Story" starring William Bendix. This absurd biopic doesn't miss a cliche, and had me laughing more than most comedies when I first saw it. Highlights are Babe Ruth miraculously healing a crippled child (Jesus had nothing on this guy) and being serenaded on his deathbed by a throng of carolers singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game".


Are you kidding? That's the greatest bio pic ever made. Right up there with the Ty Cobb Story where he quit baseball to work with Negro children.

Favorite seen in the Babe Ruth movie. The mighty Babe walks into a saloon and orders...a milk. Proof that at one time a Hollywood biography meant 100% fiction.

 

[siskokid888]

For me, The Natural is the consumate baseball movie. People that can't understand how people, like myself, can love baseball, should watch this film. It captures the mythos, foibles, drama and majesty of this great game.