I like “Field of Dreams” and “The Natural” very much, as well as “Bull Durham”. My, hard to believe that back then, you could go to a movie and not be deafened by the loud volume at the theatres and also not be assaulted by ultra-liberal Hollyweird propaganda.
My only problem with “Field of Dreams” was the casting of Kevin Costner. Not that he did a lousy job, but in reality he was just into his teens at the end of the 1960s. I would have liked to have seen John Ritter or Bill Murray or William Hurt or even Harrison Ford in the Ray Kinsella role.
A couple of earlier ball flicks not mentioned here yet, but worth a look “Rhubarb” from 1951 and “Fear Strikes Out” from 1957. Very intense performances from Anthony Perkins and Karl Malden (makes the jerk father Vic Morrow played in “The Bad News Bears” look like a real sweetheart by comparison). “Bad News Bears” another favourite ball flick of mine.
Oh ‘bad news bears’ with Matthau has some great gags
Costner was 34 when field of dreams came out in 1989. What does the fact that he was 15 in 1970 have to do with a movie that came out 20 years later?
I can’t see John Ritter in that role at all.