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Take Me Out to the Ballgame: Baseball Movies
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61* Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, one was the Yankees' best loved players and the other was their most valuable. 1961 was about to be the summer that no one who loves baseball will ever forget. Both men find that they are approaching Babe Ruth's 1927 single-season 60 home-run record. Facing pressure from the media and the stands, both men know that there is only room for one winner. The fans make their choice, but the people's favorite isn't the favorite to win. ...More |
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Angels in the Outfield The manager of the lowly California Angels puts his faith in a boy who can see an angel. ...More |
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The Bad News Bears The coach is waiting for his next beer. The pitcher is waiting for her first bra. The team is waiting for a miracle. Consider the possibilities when former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker takes a job offer to coach the Bears, a bunch of misfits who have no baseball talent. Realizing his dilemma, Coach Buttermaker brings aboard girl pitching ace Amanda Whurlizer. ...More |
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Bang the Drum Slowly An unlikely friendship ignites between two baseball players. One is the team's ace pitcher and social charmer; the other is the catcher, a farm boy from Georgia who lacks sophistication. During their last season together, the two men grow in manhood and respect for themselves and each other. ...More |
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Bull Durham "Crash" Davis is a verteran catcher who has the job of training a young pitching phenom "Nuke" LaLoosh to get him ready for the majors. Unfortunately both men fall for the same woman. ...More |
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Damn Yankees A Washington Senators fan becomes a player after making a deal with the devil to beat the Yankees. ...More |
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Field of Dreams An Iowa farmer hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop—even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play. ...More |
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Fever Pitch Baseball fanatic Ben meets and falls in love with Lindsay. Everything's going great between the couple, but when spring rolls around and baseball season begins, Ben's overwhelming obsession with the Boston Red Sox threatens to destroy his relationship with Lindsay. ...More |
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The Final Season Norway, Iowa, loves baseball games played by the high school team. So when authorities decide the town is too small for its own school, the residents are devastated. Now, rookie coach Kent Stock must lead the Tigers to victory for one last season. Based on a true story. ...More |
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For Love Of The Game Aging Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel, faced with the breakup of a relationship with his girlfriend, makes the most important decision of his life during the course of his last game. Rated PG-13 ...More |
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A League of Their Own A League of Their Own chronicles the men and women behind the All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League. Teammates travel a path through triumph and tribulation, and Tom Hanks is hilarious as the team's dissipated wreck of a manager. ...More |
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Major League A first rate comedy about the Cleveland Indians whose owner wants them to lose so she can sell them, but the team of has-beens and never-wases have other plans. Encludes an all-star cast including Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, and Wesley Snipes. ...More |
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The Natural A magic bat gives a flawed baseball hero another crack at greatness in 1939. Directed by Barry Levinson. ...More |
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The Pride of the Yankees One of the great American stories about one of the great American heroes: baseball phenomenon Lou Gehrig. The film follows the Iron Horse from childhood to his later glory on the diamond. Gehrig embodied the American ethic of humility and hard work, playing in 2,130 consecutive games until he was forced to retire because of the disease that now bears his name. ...More |
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The Rookie Based on a true story of a man whose shot at making it to baseball's major league was ended by an injury, but who years later tries again at the making it into the big leagues because of a bet he makes with the baseball team he coaches. ...More |
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The Sandlot Young Scotty, new in town, finds acceptance and friendship through playing with a neighborhood sandlot baseball team one summer. ...More |