Top 3 Favorite Baseball Movies

Foo3112

Mine would have to be

1 - *61 - great movie for Maris/Mantle fans.

2 - Major League - This movie came out back when collecting cards was the thing to do and me along with all my friends saw it and loved it.

3 - The Sandlot - While some kids went out searching for a dead body that summer (Stand by Me), other kids simply wanted to play baseball.

What are your top 3?

VitoCo1972

May not be in order of best overall movie but these are my three favorites

1 - Field of Dreams

2 - Eight Men Out

3 - The Natural

Ironmanfan

<< <i>May not be in order of best overall movie but these are my three favorites

1 - Field of Dreams

2 - Eight Men Out

3 - The Natural >>



ditto to that

IMF

wrighty

Field of Dreams, The Natural, and Long Gone (if you haven't seen long gone it's worth the watch) Jeff

thenavarro

My top 3 are:

1) The Bad News Bears (1976 edition)
2) Major League
3) Bull Durham

Have only seen bits and pieces of Field of Dreams, The Natural, The Sandlot, Eight Men Out

Foo3112

Great selection guys. I just saw eight men out recently and I loved it. I never was really too familiar with that whole black sox scandal but it was highly enjoyable.

Never heard of Long Gone. Ill have to look at the trailer now on Youtube.

BTW - Have any of you seen that "Hustle" movie with Tom Seizemore that he's playing Pete Rose? Ive been curious about that one.

prthd

Major League
The Natural
Field of Dreams

As far as Hustle goes. I bought it a few months ago at an Odd Lots type store for 2.99 I have yet to watch it. Also got The Bronx is Burning.

Downtown1974

#1 Field of Dreams
#2 61*
#3 The Natural

onlyanumber

1) Long Gone
2) Bull Durham
3) Eight Men Out


Long Gone was an HBO movie I believe in the mid 80's. Want to say William Peterson was the lead (CSI guy). If you've never seen it, it is a must see--and stayed pretty close to the book. Great movie...

californiacards3

Couple More - can you tell my wife is an actress

Bang the Drum Slowly have seen parts of both the original Paul Newman and remake DeNiro and Moriaty really like them both
Baseball - Ken Burns
Pride of the Yankees - Gary Cooper
MoneyBall - Pitt should get an Oscar nod for this one
It's Good to be Alive - Roy Campanella storry with Lou Gosset Paul Winfield and Ruby Dee
Safe at Home - Maris and Mantle
Road to the Big Leagues - Dominican Baseball
Somewhere in Georgia 1916 Cobb as himself
Touching the Game - Cape Cod
The Sandlot
Cobb - Tommy Lee Jones
Fever Pitch - not a BoSox fan - nerd gets Drew Barrymore Cool by me even if it is the BosoX
The Town - Ben Affleck - solid Boston accents and we get to heist Fenway
Some of the old BabeRuth 1920's and 30's short films
Stealing Home - gotta like a young Jodie Foster and Mark Harmon
Summer Catch - Cape Cod League and pitching

Barry

ajw

I'm a Bull Durham guy and have been ever since it came out. Another movie I'd suggest is "Sugar." It came out in the last couple years and was really good. My girlfriend (now wife) really liked it, too. Check it out.

lanemyer85

1. Ed
2. The Slugger's Wife
3. The Scout

frankhardy

This movie NEVER gets mentioned with baseball movies, but it is definitely worth a look. It is my favorite - The Stratton Story starring Jimmy Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, and Agnes Moorehead.

My list -

1. The Stratton Story
2. The Natural
3. Pride of the Yankees

NickM

Pride of the Yankees
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Bull Durham


Nick

flash2

1. eight men out
2. pride of the yankees
3. roogies bump

lostdart58

I am a big fan of Long Gone also........it was an HBO movie....

Teller speaks!!

BPorter26

Here are mine

LodiBrewFan

Cobb is my favorite, only because I was in it. It was filmed in birmingham's rick wood field. I was a student at UAB and they posted flyers across campus for extras to fill the stands. No pay what so ever, but I did get e really bad haircut.

61 was great and Field of Dreams were great too

tigerdean

Here are some more!
The pride of st. Louis
Those damn Yankees
A league of their own
The rookie with Dennis quaid

brianwintersfan

The Bad News Bears (1976 edition)
Major League
Pride Of The Yankees

EchoCanyon

The Natural
Field of Dreams
Bang The Drum Slowly

otwcards

No love for "Angels in the Outfield?" Probably one of the worst. Tony Danza's throwing was PUTRID! He threw worse than a girl with a severely torn rotator cuff and actually made paltry athletic skills exhibited in "Bang the Drum Slowly" seem authentic.

Favorites:
1. The Natural
2. 61*
3. Eight Men Out

Honorable Mention (ironically all Kevin Costner):
Bull Durham, Field of Dreams and For the Love of the Game

Probstein123

1) The Bad News Bears (1976 edition)
2) The Natural
3) Eight Men Out

jeffcbay

1.) The Natural
2.) Major League
3.) A League of Their Own

MeteoriteGuy

1. The Sandlot
2. A League of Their Own
3. Cobb

Boo on everyone without The Sandlot, which is almost all of you.

jimmyg

1. Field of Dreams
2. The Natural
3. Blue Skies Again (80s movie with Harry Hamlin about a girl playing pro baseball; we had it on tape and watched it most days over one summer)

Bigjohn69

1- for Love of the Game--- Kevin cosners plays Chapel, gets anagry at ex wife and throws a perfect game
2- The Babe,,, Goodman plays a stellar roll in this movie,, love when he says,, no no rook, no one touches his 52 hickory
3- 61* ,,, Barry Pepper is Roger Maris from a previous life no doubt.

Sean1125

I've seen a few mantle movies that are pretty awesome but don't remember the names of most of them.

Favorite "sports" movie would probably be The Longest Yard.

CharleyBrown

1) Sugar - I guess most overlook it due to it being in Spanish, but this movie was very well done. Very authentic in terms of culture, and from my understanding, those in college/minors pursuing a career in baseball say its one of the most authentic. Maybe its because my wife is Dominican, and I will likely buy property and a home there in the next 5 years, but this is easily my #1 choice.

2) Ken Burns: Baseball - I know this is more like a series, but I love the historical aspect of baseball so it is a must watch.

3) The Natural - I'm a product of the 80s - Loved this movie as a kid, still enjoy it today.

pdub1819

In no particular order:
Chasing 3000 - about a couple kids trying to see Clemente get his last hit.

The Natural

Field of Dreams

Sandlot

Fever pitch

And so many more that you have already mentioned.

TJMAC

1) Field of Dreams is #1 for me in a landslide.

2) 61*

3) Cobb - My favorite historical player to read about

Honrable mention - Major League and The Natural

RipublicaninMass

<< <i>1. The Sandlot
2. A League of Their Own
3. Cobb

Boo on everyone without The Sandlot, which is almost all of you. >>



Aww c'mon you're killin me Smalls

bishop

There is an actual Topps baseball card associated with the movie The Sluggers Wife. It pictures O'Keefe as Darryl Palmer in the format of the 1984 Topps cards, front and back, and is numbered # 800. No Topps 1984 set is complete without it . I t is listed in the Topps section of the SCD Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards.

Besides Bull Durham, another decent Costner baseball movie is For The Love Of The Game

jfkheat

My top 3 are:
1. Field of Dreams
2. League of Their Own
3. The Natural

There are a lot of other great ones mentioned here. The Stratton Story, The Babe, Sandlot and 61* are amoungst some of my facvorites too
James

Darin

I really liked Pride of the Yankees with Gary Cooper as Gehrig and Babe Ruth playing himself.
The Natural stands out. Bad news bears.

richtree

1. Bull Durham

2. Sandlot

3. Sugar

rexvos

The Natural is all 3.

Eight Men Out and Pride of the Yankees get honorable mention though.

LodiBrewFan

Eastbound and down. Not a movie, but Kenny Powers deserves to on this list!

Robby

#1 - Field of Dreams ( I've watched this one 20 times or so )

#2 - The Natural ( again , seen it at least 20 times )

#3 - Hard Ball ........with Keanu Reeves .......Love the scene when he takes all the kids to there first game at Wrigley Field and Sammy Sosa waves to the kids !!!!!!!!!!

Robbie

WalterSobchak

1. Field of Dreams
1a. Bull Durham
3. The Bad News Bears (original)

Tough to compare the top two since one is a comedy and one isn't. I think I like them both equally but if I had to pick one, I'm going with Kinsella/Mann.

jrboles

Agree with everything here. Three that I found surprisingly good:
1. Mr. Baseball - Tom Selleck in Japan. Featuring Brad Lesley
2. Little Big League - Kid manages the twins. Genuinely good and fairly reverent. At least 20 cameos and Kevin Elster and Leon Durham act. Featuring Brad Lesley
3. Bronx is Burning - Great series

CNote

Major League
Little Big League
Mr Baseball

I like my baseball movies to be fun.

firstbase23

1. 61*
2. Bull Durham
3. Eight Men Out

AC000000

1. Field of Dreams
2. League of Their Own
3. Ball of Wax

Honorable Mention. Baseball Bugs

Tabe

Mine would be:

1) For Love of the Game - love this movie

2) Eight Men Out

3) Bull Durham - my brother-in-law played for the Durham Bulls, says this movie is darn near a documentary

Tabe

RMac

I'd have to go:

1.) 61*
2.) Cobb
3.) A League of Their Own

Am I the only one that thought the "Baseball" documentary that Ken Burns did was horrible? I bought it at a flea market one Sunday for $28, watched it, then sold it at the flea market the very next Sunday for $25 and I have to say that it was the worst three dollars I've ever spent. There was a ton of filler (showing various baseball pictures with music accompaniment). Each "inning" (episode) was about 3 hours long and each one had about 45 minutes of filler throughout. I also thought that it talked about Jackie Robinson far, far, far too long (an episode and a half, so about 5 hours) and mentioned players like Roberto Clemente, Nolan Ryan, Sandy Koufax as mere footnotes to the game, and made no mention of players like Warren Spahn, Eddie Matthews, or Ernie Banks.

fiveniner

1.61*
2.Pride of St Louis (The Dizzy Dean Story)
3.Big Leaguer with Edward G Robinson(Carl Hubbell played himself in this movie released in 1955)

moonlightgraham

There are quite a few good movies to choose from but these are my top 3.

1. Field of Dreams
2. Sandlot
3. Eight Men Out

scoutsout47

Major League (1989)

Tiger Town (1983)

The Naked Gun (1988) Yeah, there was some baseball in there.

CNote

<< <i>I'd have to go:

1.) 61*
2.) Cobb
3.) A League of Their Own

Am I the only one that thought the "Baseball" documentary that Ken Burns did was horrible? I bought it at a flea market one Sunday for $28, watched it, then sold it at the flea market the very next Sunday for $25 and I have to say that it was the worst three dollars I've ever spent. There was a ton of filler (showing various baseball pictures with music accompaniment). Each "inning" (episode) was about 3 hours long and each one had about 45 minutes of filler throughout. I also thought that it talked about Jackie Robinson far, far, far too long (an episode and a half, so about 5 hours) and mentioned players like Roberto Clemente, Nolan Ryan, Sandy Koufax as mere footnotes to the game, and made no mention of players like Warren Spahn, Eddie Matthews, or Ernie Banks. >>



I've never heard of this documentary you're whining about.

gregmo32

I am curious. Are most of you not listing "Moneyball" because you haven't seen it, or because you saw it and didn't think it was as good as the others listed?