Top 5 baseball movies??

[AMBST95]

Field of Dreams
The Sandlot
Bull Durham
Bad News Bears (Original)
A League of Their Own


Honorable Mention:

'Why Not?' The 1989 Baltimore Orioles VHS Yearbook. (I wore my copy out as a kid)

[RTK]

42 - Great CGI of Ebbetts, Polo Grounds and Forbes. It made you feel as if you were in the park.

61 - Very well done, captured the era and characters well.

The Sandlot - reminds of my childhood playing endless games of sandlot ball every day all summer long on a filed we made, without an adult in site.

Eight Men Out - Great story, Shoeless Joe and Cusack is wonderful in the movie

(Tie) Bull Durham, The Natural & Field of Dreams - It's too hard to choose. They're about the love of the game and hope.

[novakjr]

This topic seems to come up every once in a while here....

My choices..

Costner makes my list 3 times, James Earl Jones twice...In order...

1)For Love of the Game
2)Major League(can't help it, I love my Tribe)
3)The Sandlot
4)Field of Dreams
5)Bull Durham

So damn close-The Natural and Fever Pitch(the movie is funny as hell, BUT it's direct tie to the '04 Red Sox season really gives this movie a little something extra that NO other sports movie will EVER be able to replicate). Haven't seen 42 yet. Probably will tonight though, I noticed it's on the HBO-OD

[ooo-ribay]

Can't believe I'm the only one with "The Fan" on my list

So bad but also so blatantly the Barry Bonds story.

[barrysloate]

Anybody see "Trouble with the Curve", with Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams? Not a top 5 by any means, but I found it entertaining.

"Moneyball" is another good film that deserves some praise.

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

"Moneyball" is another good film that deserves some praise.

Oh yeah, Moneyball.. Definitely in my revised top 5. I bump my #4 (Pride of the Yanks) simply because I can't bring myself to bump Major League. Too many good memories. I saw both Major League and Field of Dreams in my little league uniform directly following games.

[RTK]

Trouble with the Curve was really good.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

Can't believe I'm the only one with "The Fan" on my list

So bad but also so blatantly the Barry Bonds story.

DeNiro was quite good actually, as was Wesley Snipes as Barry.

[Writehooks]

1. Bang The Drum Slowly
2. '61
3. Field of Dreams
4. Pride of the Yankees
5. The Stratton Story

HM: League Of Their Own; Fear Strikes Out; 42.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

DeNiro was quite good actually, as was Wesley Snipes as Barry.

"Do you care now?!?"

The inaccuracies from a baseball standpoint were so numerous it makes me wonder if they were perhaps intentional.

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

"Do you care now?!?"

The inaccuracies from a baseball standpoint were so numerous it makes me wonder if they were perhaps intentional.

I think the filmmaker was European and had never been to a baseball game. Need to check imdb when I get home. I personally couldn't stand the movie, but did love it at the end when there's some sort of emotional reunion (was it Snipes and his son), and everyone's happy.. While their teammate Kruk is lying dead, face down in the mud while none of his teammates or even emergency personnel tend to him. So classic!!

[RTK]

I forgot about the movie "Cobb". It was pretty good as well.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

(1) Field of Dreams - This movie transcended the game
(2) Bull Durham - "Women get wooly"
(3) *61
(4) Major League - Apparently you are in good hands with Jobu
(5) Bad News Bears

[EvilKing00]

I winder if "they" will ever make a movie called ..."73*"

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by novakjr

This topic seems to come up every once in a while here....

My choices..

Costner makes my list 3 times, James Earl Jones twice...In order...

1)For Love of the Game
2)Major League(can't help it, I love my Tribe)
3)The Sandlot
4)Field of Dreams
5)Bull Durham

So damn close-The Natural and Fever Pitch(the movie is funny as hell, BUT it's direct tie to the '04 Red Sox season really gives this movie a little something extra that NO other sports movie will EVER be able to replicate). Haven't seen 42 yet. Probably will tonight though, I noticed it's on the HBO-OD

Realized that I forgot League of their own on my "so damn closes". Watched 42 earlier tonight. Beautiful film, near perfection, but not necessarily one that would get me pumped up for baseball season. It also makes my so damn close list..

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by novakjr

... Fever Pitch(the movie is funny as hell, BUT it's direct tie to the '04 Red Sox season really gives this movie a little something extra that NO other sports movie will EVER be able to replicate).

Being in St. Louis a lot of people I know hate this movie for the very reason you love it. I love it for the same reason. I am (always have been) a baseball fan and don't have an allegiance to any logo or colors so much that I can't appreciate the history that took place that year. I like the fact that they had to edit the movie because the Red Sox won, which they did not expect to happen.

[the 'stache]

My list changes occasionally. And let me say that having to narrow it down to five is really, really hard, because I'm a real sucker for baseball movies. But here's where I'd have it right now:

1. The Natural
2. Moneyball
3. Eight Men Out
4. 61*
5. Field of Dreams

I loved 42, and at some point, I'm sure it will creep into this list. Right now, though, I just have no clue which movie I'd swap it for. This is like being asked "what's your favorite 5 Beatles albums?"

After Field of Dreams, 42, Cobb, Chasing 3,000, Trouble With the Curve and Fever Pitch would be my next five right now.

I kept an open mind going into "Fever", and ended up really liking it. I wasn't going to hate it, because I have a thing for Drew Barrymore. But I totally identified with Ben's Red Sox obsession (I'm the same way about my Milwaukee teams). I liked Trouble With the Curve a lot, too.

Let me say that I love how many great baseball films there are!

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

Being in St. Louis a lot of people I know hate this movie for the very reason you love it. I love it for the same reason. I am (always have been) a baseball fan and don't have an allegiance to any logo or colors so much that I can't appreciate the history that took place that year. I like the fact that they had to edit the movie because the Red Sox won, which they did not expect to happen.

The timing of everything, and the fact that the results forced them to edit the ending of the movie is exactly what I was talking about..

[jiw98]

Narrowing it down to 5 is tough, so I'll go with
1) Eight Men Out
2) Trouble With The Curve
3) Field Of Dreams
4) Pride Of The Yankees
5) Bull Durham

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

Being in St. Louis a lot of people I know hate this movie for the very reason you love it. I love it for the same reason. I am (always have been) a baseball fan and don't have an allegiance to any logo or colors so much that I can't appreciate the history that took place that year. I like the fact that they had to edit the movie because the Red Sox won, which they did not expect to happen.

nothing like the original Nick Hornby book about soccer

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

nothing like the original Nick Hornby book about soccer

Or the original movie. Again, back to what makes it special, is that the Red Sox weren't supposed to win. In real life, or the film. That was what was going to make this re-make different from the original, which is one of the reasons that they picked the Red Sox... But by divine fate, the Red Sox delivered the exact same ending as the original film, and book...

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Originally Posted by novakjr

1)For Love of the Game
2)Major League(can't help it, I love my Tribe)
3)The Sandlot
4)Field of Dreams
5)Bull Durham

I almost put For Love of the Game on my list. It was a good one.

[Runscott]

For me, the top 2 are way in front of the others

1. The Natural
2. 61*
3. 8 Men Out
4. Field of Dreams
5. 42

[bbcard1]

I would go:

Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings
Original Bad News Bears
and probably Angels in the Outfield, though once you get past #4 there are a lot of movies I enjoy watching like Major League, 61*, 42, that would be in the running depending on my mood.