[pbald]

Anyone remembers "For the love of the game" with Kevin Costner, I think it's a pretty good baseball movie.

[sportriches]

Originally Posted by ThePundit

1) Field of Dreams - Even the most emotionless of us tear up.

2) Bad News Bears (Original with Tatum O'Neal and Walter Mathau). It should be required viewing before anyone is allowed to coach a little league team.

3) The Natural - Didn't love it when it first came out in theaters but it has grown on me over the years. Roy Hobbs is the ultimate idealistic hero. (I never understood why he had to keep the fact that he got shot by a psycotic Barbara Hershey a military secret).

4) Pride of The Yankees

5) Major League

Honorable Mention: 8 men out and *61

Overrated: Bull Durham

i don't know if one can consider it a baseball movie, but i liked The Fan with robert deniro

[homerun]

The Sandlot is the best baseball movie ever. And the dogs name is "The Beast" not Satan. His real name is Hercules.

[cjg11582]

1) Bad News Bears
2) Pride of The Yankees
3) Eight Men Out
4) Field of Dreams
5) The Natural

[cjg11582]

I forgot too mention Cobb, though its kind of not a baseball movie.

[ThePundit]

Welcome homerun to goteamsgo. I never saw The Sandlot. Is it a documentary or some other genre?

[homerun]

The Sandlot is a movie about adolescent boys playing the game they love. Although it would probably be considered a kids movie, most baseball loving adults I know love the movie. (There is also a Sandlot 2 which although it is not as good as the first, it is worth watching).

[baseballa537]

"THE SANDLOT" is a good movie lol

[legend]

The Sandlot is about a group of kids who spend their summers playing baseball, often against other neighborhoods. They play in a field that borders property owned by James Earl Jones, whose dog, which the kids think is some sort of a monster, collects all the baseballs that have made it over the fence through the years. When one of the kids uses his step-dad's ball, signed by Babe Ruth, in a game, it naturally winds up over the fence, and the lengths these kids go to to try to get it back are the climax of the movie. The Sandlot will bring alot of us back to the days when we played ball all day until it got dark, and the scene where the best of the players, Benny "the Jet" Rodriguez, is grown up and stealing home for the Dodgers always makes my eyes water! Denis Leary plays the step dad and James Earl Jones couldn't be bad in a movie if he tried. Get it. It is worth watching.

[Sports Fan]

Originally Posted by ThePundit

1) Field of Dreams - Even the most emotionless of us tear up.

2) Bad News Bears (Original with Tatum O'Neal and Walter Mathau). It should be required viewing before anyone is allowed to coach a little league team.

3) The Natural - Didn't love it when it first came out in theaters but it has grown on me over the years. Roy Hobbs is the ultimate idealistic hero. (I never understood why he had to keep the fact that he got shot by a psycotic Barbara Hershey a military secret).

4) Pride of The Yankees

5) Major League

Honorable Mention: 8 men out and *61

Overrated: Bull Durham

Hey Pundit, Here's an old one for you how about " Fear Strikes Out " It's a true story about Jimmy Piersall, starring Anthony Perkins. I believe the year was 1957.

[Lefty Noob]

Sorry to get a little OT here, but... Somebody once told me that the ending of the book "The Natural" was different from the movie, but I've never gotten around to reading it. Is it true? Does anyone here know?

[Sports Fan]

Originally Posted by Lefty Noob

Sorry to get a little OT here, but... Somebody once told me that the ending of the book "The Natural" was different from the movie, but I've never gotten around to reading it. Is it true? Does anyone here know?

Sorry Lefty, But I can't help you out I never read the book either.

[ThePundit]

Sports Fan: Thanks. I'll try and track down that movie and watch it.
Lefty: I didn't even know "The Natural" was a book.

[legend]

I snuck a brief peek at the end of that once. I think that throughout the book, the character was not the good guy he was in the movie and I know for a fact that in the end of the book he does not do anything remotely resembling what he did in the movie. That's Hollywood for you, but who would want that movie to end any differently than it did?

[Lefty Noob]

Yeah, sometimes its the movie, not the book, that gets it right I guess. Thanks, legend!