The Winning Season
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The Winning Season
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When young Joe Soshack discovers an old ladies mint condition T206 Honus Wagner, he figures it's the ticket to getting his family out of their financial problems. However, the card then transports Joe back to the 1909 World Series where he is befriended by the real Honus Wagner and his fiancee. Honus attempts to teach Joe the importance of honor, family and love. (2004) |
Trading Hearts
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Trading Hearts
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A bright 11-year-old tries to get her lounge-singer mother to marry a beat-up middle-aged ball player in Florida in the 1950s. (1987) |
Bad News Bears Go To Japan
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Bad News Bears Go To Japan
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Little Leaguers head to Asia in this second sequel. This was not very popular, and is appealing only to "Bears" obsessives. (1978) |
Ed
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Ed
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Sluggish comedy about a monkey that joins a professional baseball team. Poorly received by critics and audiences due to its weak special effects, predictable storyline. Some appeal for younger kids. (1996) |
Squeeze Play
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Squeeze Play
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Lowbrow, sleazy baseball farce from Troma Films. Filled with gratuitous sex and skin, this smut-fest won't disappoint. Troma fans will be thrilled by shameless humor. (1980) |
Diamond in the Dunes
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Diamond in the Dunes
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Muslim Uyghur and Han Chinese students at China's Xinjiang University live segregated lives, except on the baseball field. Lacking enough students from a single ethnic group, they need each other to play baseball. Diamond in the Dunes is a documentary that follows this team and their charismatic captain, Parhat Ablat, as they overcome ethnic differences and prepare for their only game of the season. -2009 |
The Babe
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The Babe
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This film portrays Babe Ruth as a heavy drinker who frequently cheated on his wives. (1992) |
Chasing Dreams
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Chasing Dreams
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A young Kevin Costner appears briefly as the older brother going off to college. The main character in the story is a farm boy who lacks direction and earns the enmity of his Dad. When the boy discovers baseball in junior college, he finds direction in his life. Two events, the tragic death of his wheel-chair bound younger brother and being beaned, almost derail him. He comes back in time to help his college team win the championship which probably gets him a chance in the minors. (1982) |
Bad News Bears
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Bad News Bears
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Energetic, upbeat, children's sports drama about an alcoholic who coaches a ramshackle Little League team. Big hit with kids in its day. Still makes them cheer out loud today. (1976) |
The Boys of Summer
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The Boys of Summer
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Former county league baseball star turned Marine, James Dalton lies in a blast hole with his brother Jacob in Vietnam, staring death right in the face. There he makes a promise to God to be a good father and always keep his family together, if only he lives. The effects of that promise are shown in the years ahead. The father of a true ball player, a rebel and a storyteller, James battles to keep his boys together through Rupland's hardships of alcohol and drug abuse, death, decline and war. From Little League to the town's famous "Summer League", the Dalton boys grow to follow different paths in life that change the course of their family forever. (2011) |
Angels in the Infield
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Angels in the Infield
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The Anaheim Angels Eddie "Steady" Everett's career has begun to tank and now he is forced to be a father to his 10-year old daughter, something he was never good at. An error that Eddie made years ago in the American League pennant still haunts him which led to the demise of his confidence and his family. Hoping to restore both Dad's confidence and their family, daughter Laurel prays that God would help Eddie pitch the way he used to. The real curveball comes when a team of second-string angels are sent to answer the prayer. (2000) |
Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush
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Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush
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From Jackie Robinson's breaking baseball's color barrier to their move to Los Angeles, a dozen years later, the Dodgers epitomize the diverse working-class. By 1955, Ebbets Field is crumbling, ticket sales are off, fans have moved to the suburbs, and Robert Moses is blocking Walter O'Malley's plan to build a stadium at the terminus of the Long Island Railroad. When Los Angeles makes O'Malley an offer he can't refuse, an era comes to an end: in 1958 the Dodgers and cross-town-rival Giants go West, leaving the ghosts of Flatbush. (2007) |
Taking Care of Business
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Taking Care of Business
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A businessman on a trip loses his essential pocket organizer and his wallet. An escaped convict and Cubs fan finds the items and assumes the owner's identity. Of course, they end up at Wrigley Field. (1991) |
Moneyball
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Moneyball
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The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players. Based on the book by Michael Lewis. (2011) |
Eight Men Out
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Eight Men Out
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True-to-life account of fixed 1919 World Series involving Chicago Black Sox. Gritty period piece/sports drama will please die-hard baseball fans and lovers of historical, character-driven drama who don't mind a slower pace. (1988) |
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
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A tough woman takes over a turn-of-the-century baseball team, having problems with a couple of her prize players until she sings their troubles away. (1949) |
Home Run on the Keys
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Home Run on the Keys
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Babe Ruth returns from a duck-hunting trip to a cabin shared by musicians Zez Confrey and Byron Gay, and the three of them are inspired to knock off a little highly-forgettable ditty called "Home Run on the Keys." Ruth also takes time to tell of the home run he called on a third strike, but manages to describe it coming in an incorrect situation. The three go back to New York to appear on a radio program where they play their new hit. -1937 |
Rookie of the Year
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Rookie of the Year
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Family fantasy about a young boy who plays with the Cubs had its target audience cheering. This movie is fun, funny, and your kids'll love it. (1993) |
Talent for the Game
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Talent for the Game
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An idealistic California Angels scout finds a phenomenal pitcher in a small Iowa town, but must contend with the slimy new billionaire team owner for the boy's future. (1991) |
Eye On The Dream
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Eye On The Dream
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The 10-part TV-documentary series is about summer amateur wooden-bat baseball in the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL), which chronicles young men chasing their dream of playing professional baseball. For some of these young men, this is their first opportunity to experience life as a real ballplayer. For others, it might be their last. The real-life trials and tribulations unfold both on-field and off and captures an authentic glimpse into just how arduous, and sometimes thankless, the business of chasing dreams can be. -2007 |
Dummy Hoy: A Deaf Hero
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Dummy Hoy: A Deaf Hero
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Documentary that chronicles the amazing baseball career of William Ellsworth "Dummy" Hoy, the first - and best - deaf player in Major League history. You'll learn that Hoy played in 1,798 big-league games and compiled a .288 lifetime batting average, 2,054 hits and 1,004 walks. He also threw three runners out at home plate from the outfield in one game. (2007) |
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
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This made-for-TV film covers the early life of the future baseball star. Young college athelethe Jackie Robinson learned early on not to bow his head to racist attacks. When he is drafted in World War II and stationed at a small-town Texas training camp, this trait gets him into trouble. Jackie is brought forward on a court-martial for insubordination when he refuses the orders of a white bus driver to go to the back of the bus. (1990) |
The Emerald Diamond
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The Emerald Diamond
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The story of Irish baseball, featuring the Irish National Baseball Team -- from County Cork to Fenway Park. (2006) |
Summer Catch
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Summer Catch
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Romantic comedy about a young Cape Cod baseball player who falls for the young daughter of a local wealthy family. As the season progresses, they grow ever closer and her parents grow ever more irritated. (2001) |
Dear Mr. Fidrych
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Dear Mr. Fidrych
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It's 1976 in Detroit. Twelve-year-old poet Marty Jones wants to be a baseball star. Motivated by the quirky success of Mark 'The Bird' Fidrych, Marty writes a poem to the Detroit Tigers' star rookie pitcher. Fidrych writes back, propelling Marty on a winning streak. Thirty years later, Marty is an advertising executive in a mid-life slump. Can a father-son road trip in search of The Bird help Marty reconnect with his family and his youthful optimism? Note: Mark Fidrych. (2009) |
Damn Yankees
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Damn Yankees
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The devil steps in to grant the wish of an aging baseball fan who longs to see his losing team triumph. This movie musical is a true classic. (1958) |
Mr. Baseball
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Mr. Baseball
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American ballplayer goes to play in Japan in this mainstream sports comedy. Critics were lukewarm, but it should score with Selleck devotees, fans of light, "fish-out-of-water" humor. (1992) |
The Sandlot 2
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The Sandlot 2
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In the 12-years-since comedic sequel to 1993's The Sandlot, a new group of kids have moved into the sandlot. (2005) |
Fancy Curves
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Fancy Curves
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Babe Ruth teaches an all girls baseball team. -1932 |
Playing With The Enemy
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Playing With The Enemy
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After being drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers as a 15-year-old prodigy in 1940, Gene Moore joined the Navy and was stationed at a prisoner of war camp in Louisiana where he taught German POWs how to play baseball. -2010 |
