Starring Edward James Olmos as a scout for the California Angels.

Fantastic scenes and acting with a terrific ending.

I’d say The Natural and Major League after that.

Never really cared much for Field of Dreams.

Bad News Bears - what a great movie. Let Freedom Ring!

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Followed closely by:

Field of Dreams
Bull Durham
The Pride of the Yankees
Eight Men Out
Major League
A League of Their Own
Moneyball
Fear Strikes Out (not on this list)

I haven’t seen The Sandlot or Everybody Wants Some

And my top three are more like all tied for #1.

League of their own would be several spots lower... but still top-10

Major League was enjoyable... but would only make my list because I don't think I could name 25 others.

The Bad News Bears would make the top 10.

Bang the Drum Slowly would also be in there.

Field of Dreams would move up to give me a Costner 1-2... with The Natural close on their heels.

I actually enjoyed The Rookie. That would also make my top 10.

When they were filming it - before the season started I think- they needed crowd shots. Pink Floyd was playing a show nearby in Chapel Hill and the producers got someone in the band to announce that after the concert there would be free beer and hot dogs for anyone who showed up at the ballpark. Lots of the crowd shots feature a lot of Pink Floyd T-shirts.


Here ya go
BURG: The wedding scene was a night scene, and we had no money for extras. Pink Floyd was playing a concert in Chapel Hill, so we went and got the band to say, "We'll be partying after the show at the Durham Athletic Field, meet us there!" And around 11 that night thousands of people showed up in Pink Floyd T-shirts, drunk. That's how we got our extras. We just got lucky. It was that kind of movie.

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pride of st louis (dizzy dean biopic)
it happens every spring (fred mcmurry is a mad scientist)

turned pitcher King Kelly in It Happens Every Spring.

Fred McMurray wasn't in the movie. He was a mad professor who invented Flubber in some Disney movies, though.

Great cast. True story.

Loved that one. I wish MLB were reconsider lifting the lifetime ban on Shoeless Joe.

Bull Durham is my obvious choice. That was my park and my team at the time. The Bulls have now gone all upscale, AAA and a new park, and I don't go as often.

I would be remiss not to mention Rhubarb. It is a sentimental favorite. BTW Orangey the cat who played Rhubarb was in lots of movies including Breakfast at Tiffany's.

1. League of their own
2. Bull Durham
3. 8 Men Out
4. Bad News Bears
5. The Pride of St Louis
6. Mr. Baseball - Just kidding this is a pretty crappy movie with rampant Japanese stereotypes
6. Field of Dreams
7. Sandlot
8. Major League
9. The Natural.
10. 42

Not Moneyball tho - It was fake.

Funny how well the Moneyball strategy worked when the As had 3 outstanding young starting pitchers and didn't work at all with average pitchers

It's, well, what baseball is all about

Ronnie Raygun as Grover Cleveland Alexander?

My favorite is Major League followed by Field of Dreams.

Until it came on one day and my wife and I were watching it.

My wife is a Tokyo girl born and raised.

That movie infuriated her.

I thought the crap scene was hilarious. When I was in an Arab country the same thing happened to me.

Were cardboard cut outs - The dickless ineffectual translator.

The stern wise manager.

The beautiful woman who just melts for Tom Selleck even though she's supposed to be a mature professional AND the managers daughter? My wife was yelling "Japanese women are not that slutty around their coworkers, not EVER"

All through the movie she was grumbling about little things that I barely noticed - "That's BS, Japanese players would fight if anyone did that" or "What is that guy even doing there?, doesn't he have a job?"

Yeah, she was not impressed