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

[AgonyandIvy]

Ball of Wax.

It's like as if Major League was written and directed by Stephen King in a bad mood.

[gnaz01]

The Sandlot

[autograf]

Soul of the Game
For love of the Game (kind of a chick flick BB movie)

[cardsfan73]

I'll throw another vote out there for Long Gone... Personally I have always considered The Sandlot a pretty well known movie.

[dabigyankeeman]

How about a movie that has a baseball scene as about the last 1/3 of the movie?

THE NAKED GUN, the last third of the movie is the funniest baseball stuff ever on screen as it takes place during an Angels game and Frank Drebin takes over first as an opera singer then as the home plate umpire, and Reggie tries to kill the queen, and the umpires get a runner in a rundown, and so on. Totally fantastic!!!!

[tedzan]

True life story of Monte Stratton who was a promising pitcher for the White Sox (1934-1938). Excellently portrayed by Jimmy Stewart.
Cast includes actual ballplayers....Bill Dickey, Jimmy Dykes, Luke Appling, etc.

Check it out...it's a really great movie.






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[deadballfreaK]

A League of Their Own. Filmed in and around Evansville, Indiana where I was brought up. I wanted to get in that movie as an extra in the stands, but couldn't get off work. I understand the cast had some great parties at some of our local drinking holes. Tom Hanks and his family lived just down the road from me during filming and said his kids loved it as did Geena Davis and most of the others. Of course Madonna called it a hick town and couldn't wait to escape.