What Are the Best Baseball Movies of All Time? (Vanity)

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[Will_Kansas]

I just got done watching "The Sandlot". One of my favorite baseball movies of all time. Others I like are "A League of Their Own", "Rookie of the Year", and of course, "Field of Dreams".

How about you. What are your favorite baseball movies?

[AmishDude]

I think "The Natural" is the best, in spite of Robert Redford. It is an opera dedicated to baseball.

[SamAdams76]

Hello. My name is Seymour. Don't laugh. My mother gave me that name. Have you contributed to Free Republic's quarterly fundraiser yet? Why not? Do you want me to get very angry? Do you want me to ring my little bell and get my big brother over here? He rides a Segway. He kick you in the rear end and make you cry. Don't make me have to call him over here. Go here and give something to keep the Free Republic running. Even if it is only five dollars. It's easy. And it will make me feel good not to have to get angry with you.

As for baseball, I am a very good baseball player. I am a catcher. I pretty much catch all the abuse of my teammates. One time, they only had two bases so I had to be first base. Of all the bases to be and they make me first base! That is the worst base of all to be. I must have gotten stepped on forty times that day.

Anyway, all your bases are belong to us. Have a good day and Freep on!

[Texaggie79]

Baseketball.............

[Mr. Buzzcut]

I like "Pride of the Yankees" even though it is cheesy as hell! More a love story than a baseball flick.

"Eight Men Out" is good ... oh ... "Bad News Bears"!

Was "Ball Four" ever made into a movie?!

[Floratina]

"Field of Dreams"

[The G Man]

Sandlot
Bull Durham
Major League
Bad News Bears
Pride of the Yankees
Field of Dreams
It happens every spring

[strela]

"You guys ... you lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you?"

"Larry!"

"Lollygaggers!"

[Clemenza]

Best baseball movie:The Natural, which has one of the most magical closing scenes of all time. Remember how the sparks came down on Roy Hobbs at the end of the film. Randy Newman's soundtrack was outstanding!

Worst baseball movie: Safe at Home, with Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. As one critic put it "their acting was as wooden as their bats."

BTW: LET'S GO METS!!!

[Alberta's Child]

The Natural and Field of Dreams, though the director of the latter was utterly incompetent in one respect -- Shoeless Joe Jackson was a country boy from North Carolina, yet in this movie he sounded like some guy from Brooklyn. How hard would it have been to have Ray Liotta spend a few weeks getting a southern accent down pat?

[wimpycat]

Major League (the original, not the sequels)
A League of Their Own "There's no crying in baseball!"
Pride of the Yankees
The Bad News Bears
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training

[Jhoffa_]

I hear allot of good things about Swiss Baseball.

Or, maybe that's cheese..

(?)

[Mr. Buzzcut]

"Let them play, let them play!"

[Clemenza]

Was "Ball Four" ever made into a movie?!

It was made into a so-so TV series, starring Jim Bouten himself. The TV show would've been better today on HBO, as they wouldn't have to worry about censors. FYI: Jim Bouten's best role was NOT in that series, but in The Long Goodbye, a Robert Altman (gasp) movie starring Elliot Gould.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

I remember the series ... about 4 episodes ... I read the book every spring.

[Alberta's Child]

I thought the best scene in The Natural was when Roy Hobbs tore the cover off the ball his first time he came to the plate. After he makes contact the pitcher reaches down for the ball and picks up the limp cover, while the somber guys in the dugout suddenly perk up and stare in amazement as the ball rockets out to right field with the string trailing behind it.

[Clemenza]

in this movie he sounded like some guy from Brooklyn. How hard would it have been to have Ray Liotta spend a few weeks getting a southern accent down pat?

You're wrong. He sounded like a guy from Jersey (Ray Liotta hails from Union, NJ). Besides, Liotta is a rather limited actor. He has all the range of a Daisy air rifle.

[Cinnamon Girl]

FIELD OF DREAMS. But Randy Newman's score for The Natural was the best of the best.

[I still care]

I had a lot of trouble with Field of Dreams, it was a lovely movie in many respects (I liked the turn Burt Lancaster did especially) but I always got so furious when the scene of parents trying to keep control of the books out of the school was treated as if they were ignorant Nazis and their opponents were heroes for forcing the parents to expose their children to what they called a dirty book.

That said, I never really liked any of the baseball movies although I love baseball, but I love the short baseball sequence at the beginning of Arsenic and Old Lace with the Brooklyn Dodgers.