What's your favorite baseball movie?

[Batter67up]

61 and Sandlot

[oldjudge]

For me:

The Natural
Damn Yankees
Bull Durham

[mets41]

the card game in Bang the Drum Slowly was Tegwar. The game had no rules (the name of the game had something to do with this)

[Sean]

Tegwar: The Exciting Game Without Any Rules.

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by Sean

Tegwar: The Exciting Game Without Any Rules.

Glad to see that I am not the only one to retain such important facts. Most times, I can not tell you what color the shirt I am wearing is without peaking, but movie trivia and baseball stats from half a lifetime ago still fill my head.

[Boomer]

League of Their Own
Field of Dreams

[the 'stache]

The Natural, hands down...though Moneyball is my new favorite film. Can't go wrong with either, really.

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by kmac32

Forgot about Major League. It's awesome also.

I was also shot at Milwaukee County Stadium. I almost went to be an extra during the shooting. I should have done it. But I was only 17 at the time.

[mets41]

Hi Ted--

I've seen The Stratton Story several times. The actor who played the scout who found Stratton was also the Wizard of Oz.

[bwbc917]

Always wished I coulda barnstormed, guess that's why Bingo Long is my favorite picture.
James Earl Jones was quite a hitter in this flick, but what other movie(s) will you find him slugging the ball?

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by bwbc917

Always wished I coulda barnstormed, guess that's why Bingo Long is my favorite picture.
James Earl Jones was quite a hitter in this flick, but what other movie(s) will you find him slugging the ball?

'The Great White Hope' - though he played the boxer Jack Johnson, he suited up as a hopefully anonymous Negro League player to evade police. He wasn't actually shown hitting a baseball in that roll, but if memory serves, he swung a bat in response to questions of how he would defend himself.

[bwbc917]

In the Sayle's movie Matewan I believe Jones plays baseball while waiting out the coal strike.

[markf31]

No one mentioned Brewster's Millions yet with Richard Pryor and John Candy?

[Prince Hal]

"There's no crying in baseball!"...League of Their Own followed by Sandlot. 42 was good also.

[bbsports]

Some of these baseball movies that have been mentioned are real classics. There are 2 movies nobody has mentioned: Safe at Home which starred Mickey Mantle & Roger Maris & The Pride Of St. Louis, which was story about Dizzy Dean. However, The Pride of the Yankees has to be the the #1 classic, since the Babe starred in the movie despite a great performance by Gary Cooper.