A Baseball fix as the season is being delayed at least.
So for opening day and beyond while we await the season, a list of movies to tide of over?
Bull Durham
Eight Men Out
Field of Dreams
A League of their Own
Major League
Pride of the Yankees
Bad News Bears (original)
Sand Lot
The Natural
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Mr. 3000 (OK, not that great but following the number theme)
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Damn Yankees
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
As you get more desperate:
Both Angels in the Outfield.
Take me Out to the Ball Game (Gene Kelly & Sinatra)
It Happens Every Spring
Fear Strikes Out
Bang the Drum Slowly
Summer Catch
Cobb
The Babe
The Babe Ruth Story
Everyone's Hero
The Slugger's Wife
The Scout
Any other Bad News Bears but the original, none were really good while the original was great.
The Winning Team See Ronald Reagan as Grover Cleveland Alexander, or don't, it really isn't a good movie.
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys.
And after you're a boy and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in your national pastime, the only real game -- I think -- in the world, baseball.
As a rule, some people think if you give them a football, or a baseball, or something like that -- naturally they're athletes right away.
But you can't do that in baseball.
You've gotta start from way down [at] the bottom, when you're six or seven years of age. You can't wait until you're fifteen or sixteen. You gotta let it grow up with you. And if you're successful, and you try hard enough, you're bound to come out on top -- just like these boys have come to the top now.
13 Mar 2020 10:53 AM
Elendil's Heir
Maybe a pamphlet on famous Jewish sports heroes?
Oh, and Moneyball. And Dave has a nice scene with the President throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.
13 Mar 2020 12:08 PM
What Exit?
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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Maybe a pamphlet on famous Jewish sports heroes?
Oh, and Moneyball. And Dave has a nice scene with the President throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.
Hey, I included The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, maybe the greatest Jewish sports hero.
On the Dave note, I thought about Arsenic & Old Lace as it opens with the Dodgers playing at Ebbet's Field to show it is in Brooklyn.
Also the Ken Burns Baseball documentary should have been included. I meant to include it and forgot.
13 Mar 2020 02:29 PM
Rube E. Tewesday
TCM is showing a bunch of Joe E Brown baseball movies this month, I have no idea if they are any good.
13 Mar 2020 03:45 PM
What Exit?
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Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
TCM is showing a bunch of Joe E Brown baseball movies this month, I have no idea if they are any good.
Probably not if he's in them. He is pretty awful.
17 Apr 2020 12:04 PM
Elendil's Heir
And may I recommend the Stephen King novella Blockade Billy, about the ill-fated 1957 season of the New Jersey Titans (based in Newark) and their rookie catcher phenom? Good stuff, although it hasn't been filmed yet.
