Best Baseball Movie Ever

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I would put "Bad News Bears II" into the "Worst" Baseball movie category, along with every "Major League" sequel and "Brewsters Millions" (has their ever been a less convincing baseball player than Richard Pryor?)

What about "Kill the Ump?"

 

[Oliver Clozoff]

That reminds me...

I know it's not a baseball movie, but The Naked Gun has what I consider to be the best ever baseball scene in a movie. Frank Drebin, played by Leslie Nielson, is a cop trying to prevent the assassination of Queen Elizabeth who is at the game, and he assumes the role of ump.

Hilarity ensues.

 

[Laurel]

"Eight Men Out" is probably first, with "The Natural" a close second. Robert Redford is underrated as an actor. "Three Days of the Condor" is on my Top 50 list (not a baseball movie, but a good Redford flick.)

 

[Laurel]

Re: That reminds me...

I know it's not a baseball movie, but The Naked Gun has what I consider to be the best ever baseball scene in a movie. Frank Drebin, played by Leslie Nielson, is a cop trying to prevent the assassination of Queen Elizabeth who is at the game, and he assumes the role of ump.

Hilarity ensues.

Holy Shit! Just reading your post made me LMAO. Great scene. The Naked Gun series is pure genius.

 

[Whispersecret]

Hey! I can't believe someone else thought of Bad News Bears. Great movie. Some of you youngsters have probably never even heard of it. Walter Mattheau (sp?), Tatum O'Neal, a bunch of other great child actors.

BNB 2 bit the big one. Wasn't that the one where they went to Tokyo? <Shudders>

 

[Gaucho]

How about The Monty Stratton Story, where Jimmy Stewart plays a real-life pro baseball pitcher with only one leg?

 

[BrainyBeauty]

A little brains...a little talent

Damn Yankees!

And such a shame that we lost 2 of the stars within a few months of each other (Gwen in October and Ray 3 weeks ago)

The Natural was wonderful too and gave me that 'goose-bumpy' feel-good, butterflies in my stomach feeling!

 

[KillerMuffin]

I liked Major League too. Milwaukee does look more like Cleveland than Cleveland, now that you mention it. At least on the post cards.

I liked the Replacements and adored necessary rougness too.

 

[Madame Pandora]

I liked the Replacements and adored necessary rougness too.

Who wants to tell her?

MP

 

[Isabella Thorne]

I am not very into baseball movies in general ...

but I do make the exception for Bull Durham ...

it has to be one of my fave movies ... Susan Sarandon smolders ... oozes sex ... and the chemistry between her and Kevin Costner is enough to give you goosebumps ...

... what a combination if you think about it ... baseball and romance ... a good date movie that everyone can enjoy ...

 

[teresafannin]

Love Bull Durham, Susan Sarandon & Kevin Costner were a good team in that one.

Damn Yankees because I wanted to be Gwen Verdon when I was a little girl.

Bad News Bears because I played on a softball team that was similar to the Bears. Our coach didn't drink, but the whole team was made up of misfits.

I did like the Monte Stratton Story,it was very moving.

 

[Lustful Gent]

I agree about "Bad News Bears." Not only the best baseball movie of all time, but one of my all-time favorite movies in any category.

"North Dallas Forty" and "The Longest Yard" for football...

"Slapshot" (duh) for hockey...

And there never has been a great basketball movie, unless you count "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" or have a soft spot for Robby Benson in "One on One."

 

[Purple Haze]

"Go the distance."

Ken Burns' "BASEBALL", an eighteen hour, nine inning marathon documentary film, chronicles all the glory from "the old game's" 18th century beginnings, throught the "dead ball" era and into the twentieth century. The true stories told here are stranger than fiction, and a casual fan can appreciate the long line of kooky characters, and genuine heroes that played the game.

I saw "The Bad News Bears" recently, and I still like that movie.

 

[Madame Pandora]

Sorry, DCL

Okay...

Sorry to warp your thread DCL...but since the others have done it...

The best SPORTS movie of all time to me (any sport) will always be HOOSIERS. (and I hate basketball)

But my baseball pics stand from what I posted earlier ;-)

MP

 

[CelestialBody]

ummmm....

 

[Purple Haze]

CelestialBody,

"Damn Yankees" was a movie, a sappy musical with Tab Hunter.

 

[Grrrn38]

And there never has been a great basketball movie,

I respectfully disagree; "Hoosiers" with Gene Hackman.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

The greatest sports movie of all time was the 20 minute football sequence in M*A*S*H.

 

[Madame Pandora]

The greatest sports movie of all time was the 20 minute football sequence in M*A*S*H.

At the very least that should have made the top 5 guy comedies of all time Didn't even think of Hawkeye and the clan!

MP ;-P

 

[RonG]

"Brewsters Millions" (has their ever been a less convincing baseball player than Richard Pryor?)

Believe it or not, Richard Pryor was a baseball player years earlier in The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings. Double time loser.

For other sports movies, gimme The Fortune Cookie for football with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and Raging Bull for Boxing. Raging Bull needs to be on that list of guy movies.