What's Your Favorite Lesser-Known, Non-Blockbuster Baseball Movie?

[clydepepper]

My favorite 3 in the lesser-known category are:

Talent for the Game - staring Edward James Olmos & Lorraine Bracco
Pastime - starring William Russ & Glenn Plummer

and not yet available on DVD- Cooperstown- starring Alan Arkin & Graham Greene.


My favorite 'well-known' Baseball Movies are:

61*
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Bull Durham
Eight Men Out
Field of Dreams
Mr. Baseball
The Natural
42

[Jayworld]

"It Happens Every Spring," 1949, Ray Milland

Check it out, very much worth watching....

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by Jayworld

"It Happens Every Spring," 1949, Ray Milland

Check it out, very much worth watching....

Yes, Yes- and 'The Winning Team'

[clydepepper]

One more older movie that I cannot believe I failed to mention:

A Great, Great Movie:

'The Spirit of St. Louis'

[bbcard1]

Just watched the documentary Battered Bastards of Baseball on Netflix. Stop what you are doing and watch it now.

[MacDice]

They made two great documentaries about summer collegiate baseball. One about the Cap Cod and the other about Alaska. http://touchingthegame.com/

[SteveMitchell]

Originally Posted by Jayworld

"It Happens Every Spring," 1949, Ray Milland

Check it out, very much worth watching....

+1

I saw this one for the first time in the mid-1960s and enjoyed it very much.

[HexsHeroes]

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. . . staring Edward Olmos and Loraine Bracco has always been an enjoyable watch for me. Certainly not an original storyline, and abit far fetched at times, but I do enjoy how the husband/wife team of Olmos an Bracco worked together.

[DaClyde]

I got a kick out of "Alibi Ike" with Joe E. Brown. Loved that wind-up!

[VoodooChild]

I'm a sucker for '80's movies so "Long Gone" is one of my favorites. A more recent favorite would be "Sugar".

[packs]

Rookie Of The Year - my friend's uncle is the doctor who yells "Funky butt loving!"

[Peter_Spaeth]

Fear Strikes Out.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by packs

Rookie Of The Year - my friend's uncle is the doctor who yells "Funky butt loving!"

Yeah. I would be bragging about that too.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Originally Posted by packs

Rookie Of The Year - my friend's uncle is the doctor who yells "Funky butt loving!"

As a kid that was a favorite.

[varsitycollectibles]

I'll second Sugar for fiction and add Knuckleball! for a doc.

[tjb1952tjb]

Originally Posted by DaClyde

I got a kick out of "Alibi Ike" with Joe E. Brown. Loved that wind-up!

1935.......and 18 year old Olivia de Havilland's film debut. BTW.....she's still alive and living in Paris (98 yrs. old). The last surviving star from "Gone With The WInd" (1939).

[baseballfan]

Lesser known the sand lot

Favorite bull Durham

[ZenPop]

...there's a baseball-themed movie, Touching Home, that came out in 2008... twins, Logan & Noah Miller, wrote, directed and acted in it. They're from the Bay Area and they got Ed Harris (yes. THE Ed Harris) to star in it. (full disclosure: I did the movie poster for the film)... It's about two sons dream of realizing their baseball dreams (they get a tryout for a big league club) while dealing with an alcoholic father. Based on their true story. It's a small film, but beautifully shot... and the twins have obviously played the game. Worth checking out.

IMDB LINK HERE

[MikeU]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

My favorite 3 in the lesser-known category are:

Talent for the Game - staring Edward James Olmos & Lorraine Bracco
Pastime - starring William Russ & Glenn Plummer

and not yet available on DVD- Cooperstown- starring Alan Arkin & Graham Greene.


My favorite 'well-known' Baseball Movies are:

61*
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Bull Durham
Eight Men Out
Field of Dreams
Mr. Baseball
The Natural
42

Trouble With the Curve has not been mentioned. Put a tear in my eye, no joke.