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Batter67up 12-14-2012 08:19 PM

61 and Sandlot

oldjudge 12-15-2012 12:29 AM

For me:

The Natural
Damn Yankees
Bull Durham

mets41 12-15-2012 01:01 AM

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 12-15-2012 01:05 AM

Tegwar: The Exciting Game Without Any Rules.

Bocabirdman 12-15-2012 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Sean (Post 1062976)
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.:D

Boomer 12-15-2012 07:43 AM

League of Their Own
Field of Dreams

the 'stache 12-15-2012 08:13 AM

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

the 'stache 12-15-2012 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by kmac32 (Post 940674)
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 01-24-2015 10:58 PM

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 01-25-2015 08:09 AM

Barnstorming
 
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 01-26-2015 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by bwbc917 (Post 1371465)
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 01-29-2015 07:18 AM

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

markf31 01-29-2015 07:56 AM

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

Prince Hal 01-29-2015 02:49 PM

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

bbsports 01-29-2015 03:26 PM

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.


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