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A No-Hit No-Run Summer | It’s the summer of ’69, the inaugural season of the Montreal Expos. Martin is 12-years-old and dreams of playing on the neighborhood baseball team. When he doesn’t make the cut, his father steps in and organises a B team. After the initial euphoria, Martin realises that his team’s biggest talent is finding new ways to lose and that his father doesn’t know a thing about baseball, 12 year-old boys or his very own son. The film is in French, but with English sub-titles. (2008) | Patrice Robitaille, Pier-Luc Funk, Jacinthe Lagu | |
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Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch | Josh has gone to college and his little sister Andrea enlists their dog Buddy in her baseball team just as Buddy's puppies are kidnapped by Rocky the Raccoon. (2002) | Caitlin Wachs, Cynthia Stevenson, Kevin Zegers | B0000639HP |
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Alibi Ike | This hilarious baseball comedy thrilled crowds with the antics of Chicago Cubs pitcher Joe E. Brown. As the rookie sensation leads his team to victory, his penchant for making excuses tries the patience of fiancee Olivia de Havilland (in her film debut) and manager William Frawley. But will a mix-up with gamblers bring Ike's winning streak to an end? (1935) | Joe. E. Brown, Ruth Donnelly, Roscoe Karns | B000CO8W2C |
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Amazing Grace and Chuck | Sentimental "wish fulfillment" tale of Little League ace and professional basketball player leading worldwide protest against nuclear arms. Heartstrings-tugger is perfect popcorn muncher for young, socially conscious kids. (1987) | Jamie Lee Curtis, Alex English | B00005JMMU |
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AmerAsian | Eric, an American-born Asian college graduate, must borrow a younger student's identity to take back the one last year of baseball he lost when his dad past away. Monica, his Coach's All-American daughter, must ascertain her own questionable identity in order to come to terms with the years of abuse she suffered after her mom passed away. -2007 | Roger Lim, Chris Smothers, Christopher Plumber, Shannon Gayle, Bobby Dodge, Kristin Pesceone. | |
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American Asian | Eric, an AmerAsian graduate, once again assumes a younger athlete's identity to take back his one last year of college baseball. Along his journey, he develops a close connection with head Coach Pierce and an innocent friendship with Amy, the team's assistant athletic trainer. Struggling through physical, emotional, and spiritual adversity, Eric winds up on the same field opposite a pair of racist enemies from his dark past. Now he is forced to play in a game that threatens to bring his career, and his freedom, to an abrupt end. -2010 | Roger Lim, Angel Monroe, Andy Hnilo, Bruce Childs, Harry Triplett. | |
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AmerAsian 3: Young Again | American-born Asian graduate student, Eric Young, is lured back to college baseball field one final time, passing himself off as 10 years younger to try out for the Division 2 Volcanos. There's double identity, self deception and steroid abuse. -2011 | Roger Lim, Christopher Sean, Lori McShane. | |
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American Pastime | After the attack on Pearl Harbor in WW2 the Japanese living in the U.S. were imprisoned...and lost their freedom. In an effort to make a home for themselves and regain their dignity a group of Japanese prisoners start a baseball league and challenge the Americans to an unforgettable game. (2007) | Gary Cole, Aaron Yoo, Leonardo Nam, Sarah Drew | B000NTPG7A |
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Angels in the Infield | 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) | Brittney Irvin, David Alan Grier, Kurt Fuller, Patrick Warburton | B0000DZTL3 |
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Angels in the Outfield | An orphan who's got a direct line to the angels becomes the mascot for baseball's California Angels and helps them break a losing streak. This flick is not just for kids. (1994) | Tony Danza, Danny Glover | B0000633U2 |
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Angels in the Outfield | A young woman reporter blames the Pittsburgh Pirates' losing streak on the obscenely abusive manager. While she attempts to learn more about him for her column, he begins hearing the voice of an angel promising him help for the team if he will mend his ways. As he does so, an orphan girl who is a Pirates fan and has been praying for the team begins noticing angels on the ballfield. Sure enough, the Pirates start winning, and McGovern tries to turn his life around. But can he keep his temper long enough for the Pirates to win the NL pennant? (1951) | Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Donna Corcoran | B00005JP45 |
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The Babe | This film portrays Babe Ruth as a heavy drinker who frequently cheated on his wives. (1992) | John Goodman, Kelly McGillis | B00009AOAX |
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Babe Comes Home | Babe Ruth plays Babe Dugan, home run whiz of the Los Angeles Angels (a minor-league team in 1927). Babe's habit of chewing tobacco makes him the bane of the Snow White Laundry, which has to clean his juice-stained uniforms after every game. Laundress Vernie (Anna Q. Nilsson) attends an Angels game to see for herself just how one man can be so messy. Babe hits a fly ball, which hits Vernie in the eye. From this bad start, a romance develops. (1927) | Babe Ruth, Anna Q. Nilsson, Louise Fazenda. | B0021WQQVM |
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The Babe Ruth Story | The famed slugger is played by Bendix, who resembles Ruth slightly in looks and not at all in baseball ability. The film traces the "life and times" of Ruth, including his famous "called shot" in the 1932 World Series. (1948) | William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, Sam Levene | 6301599446 |
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Bad News Bears | 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) | Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal | B00005JK9L |
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Bad News Bears (Remake) | A remake of the original released in 1976. Morris Buttermaker, a drunken ex-ballplayer, is forced to coach a local little league team of misfits. Buttermaker is more interested in beer and babes until he grows tired of seeing the team lose. In an effort to change things around, Buttermaker begins to teach the kids how to play and recruits 2 new ballplayers. | B000BDH68K | |
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Bad News Bears in Breaking Training | Sequel finds Little League team at Houston's Astrodome without a coach. Not as funny as first, but still great fun for kids. (1977) | W. Devane, C. James | B00005U5AE |
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Bad News Bears Go To Japan | Little Leaguers head to Asia in this second sequel. This was not very popular, and is appealing only to "Bears" obsessives. (1978) | T. Curtis, J.E. Haley | B00005U5AF |
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Ball of Wax | Easily one of the darkest sports-themed movies ever made. Bret Packard is the best baseball player in the world. Bret Packard is rich, famous, good-looking, and set to win his fourth championship ring. But Bret Packard is bored. Packard turns malevolent puppetmaster, personally orchestrating the spiritual destruction of his teammates. (2003) | Mark Mench, Justin Smith, Traci Dinwiddie, Cullen Moss, Daniel Morris | B00073K7ZI |
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Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) | Classic relationship study looks at friendship evolving between two professional baseball players. Not as appealing to sports movie fans as those those who like sensitive, emotionally provocative drama, strong performances. (1956) | Paul Newman, Albert Salmi | 6303499929 |
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Bang the Drum Slowly (Remake 1974) | Remake of the above which received critical acclaim for its lead and supporting performances. Guaranteed to please fans of emotionally potent tearjerkers. (1974) | Robert De Niro, Michael Moriarty | B00007LP8K |
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Baseball: a film by Ken Burns | Ken Burns tops himself with this epic of American history, told in "nine innings," with a skilled narration by John Chancellor and the voices of Paul Newman, Jason Robards, Billy Crystal, and other stars. The series spans 150 years, starting with the tale of baseball's true beginnings. Then follow the growth of America's National Pastime through the decades of glory and record-setting achievements, as well as the scandals, the bigotry, and the big money. The series portrays the game as a mirror of America itself -- the passions, prejudices, and ambitions that have shape the country. Inning 1: Our Game (1840-1900) Inning 2: Something Like War (1900-1910) Inning 3: The Faith of Fifty Million People (1910-1920) Inning 4: A National Heirloom (1920-1930) Inning 5: Shadow Ball (1930-1940) Inning 6: A National Pastime (1940-1950) Inning 7: The Capital of Baseball (1950-1960) Inning 8: A Whole New Ballgame (1960-1970) Inning 9: Home (1970-1994) Inning 10: The Tenth Inning (1994-2010) - release Sept 2010 | Documentary by Ken Burns, with Mamie Ruth Moberly, Hank Aaron, Bud Abbott, and Roger Angell. | B0002KPI28 |
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Baseball, Minnesota | The 22- episode documentary featuring the St. Paul Saints is part "Bull Durham" and part MTV's "The Real World" and aired of FOX televisions cable network, fX. A camera crew followed the minor league team everywhere during the 1996 season. Game-day highlights are woven into the individual stories of the Saints players. -1996 | The St. Paul Saints, including Jack Morris and Darryl Strawberry | |
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BASEketball | Story of a baseketball team called the Milwalkie Beers and a wife who wants to take over the team. Plus, Jenny McCarthy and Jasmine Bleeth - Yes! (1998) | Trey Parker, Matt Stone | 0783230338 |
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Battlefield Baseball | Here's a deliriously insane, over-the-top Japanese movie. Seido High's baseball team is set to open their season against the dreaded Gedos, blue-faced zombie baseball players known for impaling, maiming and literally destroying the competition. Though initially reluctant to join the team, new student Yakyu Jubei eventually suits up, and helps to rack up the body count for the good guys. (2003) | Tak Sakaguchi, Atsushi Ito | B0009E326G |
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Beer League | Beer, broads and softball combine with over-the-top comedy about a group of misfits whose weekly softball games descend more into fights for macho dominance than making home runs. When love enters his life, it unexpectedly | B000JCEB0E | |
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The Benchwarmers | A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads. (2006) | Rob Schneider, David Spade, Jon Heder, Molly Sims, Jon Lovitz, Tim Meadows, Craig Kilborn, Bill Romanowski | B000G0O5I2 |
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Big Guns | When their shortstop "stikes out" permanently, the fun loving 60 to 75 year old "Kids at Heart" decide to go for their secret dream... to win the Senior World Series. Renaming themselves "Big Guns," they get serious and play hard. Maybe just a little to hard. Illegal bats, booze, ringers and wild women bring out the worst in them. Making even wise old guys think twice as they rediscover that love and friendship are most important than winning. (2006) | Mel Novak, Dan Minnick, Dave Myers, Lynn Nonnenmacher, Geno Giordan, Jack Wiltfang, Mike Jauregui, Barry Primus, Neil Dawson, Benny Castor, Ernie Acosta, Dave Townley. | B000FVUBF8 |
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Big Leaguer | John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22 year old hopefuls to pick the best for a minor league contract. They all have dreams and talent, but the elimination whittles them down to a lucky few who will get the $150 a month contract. This year John's niece comes down from the home office in New York and is attracted to tall quiet Adam. (1953) | Edward G. Robinson, Vera-Ellen. | B001XRN3N0 |
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Bingo Long and the Traveling All-Stars | Period road comedy about baseball players abandoning Negro League for lively travelling road show. Its sharp satire, energetic performances has made it a cult classic amongst African-American cinema fans, and baseball-lovers. (1976) | Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones | B00005RIIY |
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Black Irish | In South Boston, where Irish roots run deep and Catholic tradition reigns, two brothers face similar hardships but lead far different lives. While older brother Terry descends into drugs and crime, 16-year-old Cole vies to make the state baseball championships. When the two inevitably clash in a life-and-death confrontation, family ties-and futures-are at stake. (2007) | Michael Angarano, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Guiry, Melissa Leo, Emily VanCamp | B000XUOLQQ |
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Bleacher Boys | Bleacher Boys is the story of five men who shared a common dream as boys, the dream of growing up and playing major league baseball. Five men, each of whose dream was dashed at an early age due to blindness, as if the stadium lights suddenly went dark. -2009 | Ed Lucas, Patrick Cannon, Neal Freeling, Paul Paravanno, Craig Lynch. | |
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Bleacher Bums | A day in the life of a group of gambling buddies, as they sit in on their beloved minor league baseball team game. (2002) | Brad Garrett, Charles Durning, Hal Sparks, Matt Craven, Maury Chaykin, Peter Riegert, Sarain Boylan, Stephen Markle, Wayne Knight | B00006RCNA |
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Blue Skies Again | This is a baseball comedy with a twist. This time, the young player striving to make it big in the major leagues is a plucky, talented young woman who attends spring training camp. The team's wealthy owner is a male-chauvinist bachelor who finds himself attracted to the young second baseperson's personal manager and finds he must re-evaluate his gender bias. (1983) | Harry Hamlin, Mimi Rogers | 6300270092 |
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The Boys of Summer | 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) | Roger Kahn, Michael Dault, Michael Moriarty,Tim McGraw, Larry Bagby, Frank Collison, Tom Sizemore, Dax Spanogle | |
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Breaking into the Big Leagues | Silent one-reel film featuring New York Giants pitcher, Christy Mathewson. (1913) | Harry F. Millarde, Marguerite Courtot, Henry Hallam, John J. McGraw, Christy Mathewson | |
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Brewster's Millions | Minor League ballplayer spends money to qualify for inheritance. Excellent daffy comedy with hard-working lead performances. This movie is a classic. (1985) | Richard Pryor, John Candy | 6304843275 |
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The Bronx Is Burning | In 1977, Major league Baseball has officially inaugurated the free agent market. Reggie Jackson signed a contract with the Yankees and soon brings controversy to the club, causing his fellow teammates especially, Thurman Munson to not like him. Plus, manager Billy Martin and owner George Steinbrenner have private arguments about Jackson and the team. (2007) | Max Casella, Loren Dean, Charles S. Dutton, Joe Grifasi, Dan Lauria | B000R7HY46 |
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Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush | 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) | Featuring: Jackie Robinson's widow, Rachel Robinson; former players; former Dodgers general manager Emil J. "Buzzie" Bavasi; former Dodgers owner Peter O'Malley. | B001XUSUWQ |
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Bull Durham | Popular romantic comedy about love triangle between hotshot rookie, minor leaguer, and team groupie. With its high laugh quotient and steamy sexiness, this hits home with comedy, romance, baseball buffs. This movie ranks with the all-time best baseball dramas. (1988) | Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins | B00005V9HG |
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The Busher | Young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues. But will he be up to the challenge? (1919) | Charles Ray, Colleen Moore, John Gilbert, Margaret Livingston. | B000N2HDGE |
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Calvin Marshall | Calvin Marshall's childhood dream of playing Major League Baseball is in serious jeopardy as he can't seem to make the Bayford Bisons Junior College team. A poignant comedy about Calvin's deferred dream and the people in his life who want him to succeed. -2010 | Alex Frost, Steve Zahn, Michelle Lombardo. | |
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Casey At The Bat | In the June 3, 1888 issue of The Examiner, Ernest Lawrence Thayer published the poem "Casey At The Bat" about an umpire who gets beat up by a batter after calling a strike call. In 1899, it became a 40 second Edison short. It has been remade many times over the years with the recitation of the poem. (1899, 1913, 1916, 1922, 1927, 1946, 2005) | Actors who played Casey: Harry T. Morey (1913), DeWolf Hopper Sr. (1916 & 1922), Wallace Beery (1927). | B0008FPIWM |
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The Catcher | The catcher, Davey Walker, finds out his contract isn't getting renewed, and so starts the murder of several players who have decided to stay in the stadium for one reason or another after the game. (2006) | David Heavener, Joe Estevez, Monique Parent. | B00005Y70D |
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Chasing 3000 | Two brothers travel to Pittsburgh to watch Roberto Clemente get his 3000th hit. -2006 | Ray Liotta, Rory Culkin. | |
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Chasing Dreams | 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) | David G. Brown, John Fife, Jim Shane, Lisa Kingston, Kevin Costner | B00063H5I6 |
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Chasing October | Matt Liston decided that quitting his job and making a documentary about his beloved Chicago Cubs in 2003 would break their curse and get them a World Series title for the first time since 1908. It didn't quite work out that way for the North Siders and Liston, but he did make an enjoyable and memorable film in the process. (2007) | Appearances by: Bernie Mac, Gary Sinise, Joe Mantegna, Jeff Garlin, Larry King | |
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Clubhouse | The CBS television series is about a boy who gets his dream job working as a batboy for his favorite major-league baseball team, the fictional New York Empires. Throughout the story, 16-year-old Pete Young goes through normal and not so normal problems of a teenager. Pete's sister is a rebellious teen who deals with drinking, sex, and drugs. The first five episodes aired on CBS, along with six additional episodes that were picked up by HDNet after CBS canceled the show. (2004) | Dean Cain, Christopher Lloyd, Jeremy Sumpter. Runtime: 60 minutes per episode. | |
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Cobb | Non-reverential Hollywood biopic about one of baseball's greatest players. Critically acclaimed lead performance draws in drama fans seeking strong character portrait. (1994) | Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl. | B0000A02YH |
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The Comeback Kid | A down and out former minor league ballplayer finds romance and a renewed zest for life when he takes a job coaching a group of underprivileged kids. (1980) | John Ritter, Susan Dey, Patrick Swayze. | 6300151867 |
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Comrades of Summer | Sparky Smith is a baseball coach with a future in the game - behind him. Now Sparky'll work for anyone who'll hire him - and that just happens to be a Russian baseball team who barely know their way around a diamond! (1992) | Joe Mantegna, Natalya Negoda, Michael Lerner, Mark Rolston, John Fleck. | 630271544X |
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Cooperstown | A baseball pitcher who never had quite the professional career he dreamed about is visited by the ghost of his former catcher, for whom he always harbored a secret jealousy. The spirit of the catcher gets him to revisit people and places from his past and gives him a new perspective on his life. (1993) | Ernie Harwell, Miles Perlich, Byron Thames, Robbie T. Robinson, Jason Orman. | B00104Z75I |
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson | 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) | Andre Braugher, Daniel Stern, Ruby Dee, Stan Shaw, Bruce Dern, Kasi Lemmons, Paul Dooley. | 6301950291 |
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Damn Yankees | 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) | Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston | B0002Y4TII |
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Deadly Strike | To boost morale at Dirkschneider Inc., Boss Franz decides to create a company baseball team. In short time, members of the group wind up dead due to baseball related deaths. Could this be the revenge of failed mascot Homer Pinstripe? -2008 | Todd Therrien, Caitlin Robert, Aurora Grabill, Richard Chandler, George Rose, Christine McFadyed, Mike Nigro, Mike Goodreau. | |
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Dear Mr. Fidrych | 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) | Noah Cramer, Mike Cramer, Tom Ide, John Ide, Mark Fidrych | |
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Death On The Diamond | Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times? (1934) | Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton, Ted Healy. | |
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Diamond in the Dunes | 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 | Parhat Ablat | |
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Diminished Capacity | A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's-impaired uncle Rollie and his old flame. Quickly a plan is hatched for the trio to head to a memorabilia convention in the city, where Rollie hopes to sell a rare baseball card, but some try to scheme the old man out of his fortune. (2008) | Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda, Virginia Madsen | B0027DZ50S |
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Dizzy & Daffy | A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for the St. Louis Cardinals. -1934 | Dizzy Dean, Daffy Dean, Roscoe Ates, Shemp Howard, Richard Cramer. | |
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The Dome | In an age of monolithic retractable roofs, corporate luxury boxes, and multi-story high-definition "Godzilla-tron" screens, it's easy to forget where it all began. Conceived by a larger than life Texas Judge who didn't want his daughter to suffer through any more rained out ballgames, the Astrodome forever changed the world of sports and entertainment. This film documents the life and legacy of this iconic building. (2010) | Directed by: Chip Rives | |
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Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paig | Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige, star pitcher in the Negro Leagues and later in the major leagues. Traces his life from his troubled youth, including his life in a detention school for Negroes, to his highs and lows in baseball and in his personal life. (1981) | Louis Gossett Jr, Beverly Todd | 6303101429 |
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The Dreyfuss Affair | During the race for the World Series, Randy Drefyus - the handsome, married, spectacularly talented shortstop for the Los Angeles Valley Vikings - discovers he's fallen in love with the team's second baseman. (2011) | TBA | |
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Dummy Hoy: A Deaf Hero | 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) | Ryan Lane, Deanne Bray | B000WV1O1G |
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Ed | 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) | Matt LeBlanc, Jack Warden | B00009AOAV |
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Eden Court | Eden Court is a dramatic comedy of a washed up baseball star stuck in a trailer park trying to escape his current world by running off to Australia in pursuit of his "American Dream." The only problem is that it's his 30th birthday and his wife, family, and friends won't let him leave home without a fight. -2007 | Thomas Lennon, Kimberly Williams-Paisley. | |
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Eight Men Out | 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) | John Cusack, Clifton James | B000059TFM |
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Elmer The Great | Joe E. Brown again stars in another Ring Lardner gem about country bumpkin ballplayer Elmer Kane (based on Big Ed Walsh) that gets mixed up with the underworld. Not as funny as Alibi Ike but still worth viewing. Based on the play Hurry Kane. Filmed in L.A.'s Wrigley Field. -1933 | Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Preston S. Foster. | B0021ZZF2K |
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The Emerald Diamond | The story of Irish baseball, featuring the Irish National Baseball Team -- from County Cork to Fenway Park. (2006) | The Irish National Baseball Team. | B000LPR9T4 |
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Everyone's Hero | "Everyone's Hero" is a heartwarming comedy-adventure, telling the story of a young boy's thousand-mile journey to help Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees win the World Series. The project's theme of perseverance against all odds was inspired by the film's originating director and executive producer, Christopher Reeve. (2006) | William H. Macy, Rob Reiner, Brian Dennehy, Raven, Robert Wagner. | B000MNOX9E |
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Eye On The Dream | 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 | Developed by: P.J. Moynihan & Alex Niefer. | |
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Faded Glory | Faded Glory is a true story of a group of aging athletes, good friends for over 18 years, who never gave up the dream of playing baseball at a competitive level. Through the eyes of their manager, Faded Glory follows the National Network team, 18 men over the age of thirty-five who have overcome life’s adversities, including injury, divorce, bankruptcy, infidelity, drug addiction, incarceration, and one life-threatening disease. It all takes place as National tries to win a National Amateur Baseball World Series title. Faded Glory is a captivating document of friendship, courage, humor, and the indomitability of the human spirit. (2010) | Rick Cohen, The National Network team. | B003KX4Q7M |
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The Fan | Dark, slick psychological thriller/horror about psychotic fan's obsession with star ballplayer. Character development buffs are sorely disappointed, but over-the-top plot developments create solid entertainment for fans of ominous, stalker-oriented thrillers. -1996 | Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes | 0800141822 |
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Fancy Curves | Babe Ruth teaches an all girls baseball team. -1932 | Babe Ruth. | |
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Favorite Son | A story of family, of dreams deferred, and of a final chance at redemption. David Paxton, nearing the end of his minor league baseball career, returns to his hometown as much less the hero he once assumed he would become. When he meets Joan, and her son Ross, David believes he has found a way to acquire the love, support and family he's long been yearning for. But his overheated romancing of Joan makes her wary, and his attempt to mentor Ross meets with the boy's undisguised contempt. It appears his dreams of a future have died, and David's simmering rage threatens to erupt into violence. (2010) | Pablo Schreiber, Connor Paolo, Kellie Overbey, Richard Bekins | B003H3MOU6 |
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Fastpitch | 35 year-old New York artist, director Jeremy Spear longs for the athletic days of his college years. He finds the solution in joining a fastpitch softball league in Ashland, Ohio and the result is this spirited, humorous, human documentary about a once-mighty sport which is now only followed by diehard fans. (2000) | Ken Billingley, Tony Hunloff, Shane Hunuhunu, and Lila Leiter | B00005J75U |
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Fear Strikes Out | True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father. This dark drama, with its vivid lead performance, pleases classic drama fans, those seeking baseball movie without the usual cliches. (1957) | Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden | B00007LP8L |
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Fever Pitch | When relaxed and charming Ben Wrightman meets workaholic Lindsey Meeks she finds him sweet and charming, they hit it off and when it is winter Ben can spend every waking hour with Lindsey, but when summer comes around the corner Lindsey discovers Ben's obsession with the Boston Red Sox. She thinks it is perfect until everything goes downhill for them, based on Nick Hornby's novel "Fever Pitch" (2005) | Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Lenny Clarke | B000A0GXRO |
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Field of Dreams | Upbeat, widely appealing Hollywood fantasy/drama about Iowa farmer who builds baseball diamond after hearing mysterious voices. Hugely popular redemptive tale, with a magical feel. This movie ranks with the all-time best baseball dramas. (1989) | Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan | 078322611X |
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The Final Season | True story of Kent Stock who disrupts his life to become coach of the Norway High School baseball team in Iowa to try to lead them to victory. -2007 | Sean Astin, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tom Arnold | B0012YYZDG |
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Finding Buck McHenry | When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team. He persuades a school custodian to be the coach. As the new coach starts working with the team, his knowledge leads the boy to suspect that the man is really an ex-Negro League legend who disappeared from sight years ago. The kid sets out to find out the truth about the man's background. Ernie Banks appears as a Negro league star. (2000) | Ossie Davis, Ernie Banks, Ruby Dee | B00005B6L6 |
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Fireman, Save My Child | Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small home town. He gets an offer to play in a big team, he hopes to get more money for his inventions. But he is invited to present his invention to a fire-extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game? (1932) | Joe E. Brown, Evalyn Knapp, Lilian Bond. | |
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For Love of the Game | A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of thirty-seven has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years. (1999) | Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston | 078324021X |
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Freedom Park | David and Stephen are in debt over half a million dollars to Vegas crime boss Tommy the Goat. After fleeing to their home town of Freedom Park, MA they start a gambling ring at the local youth baseball park. As parents secretly place their bets at the ice cream truck and players cork their bats to improve odds, David and Stephen hope to earn enough cash to stay ahead of their debts. (2004) | Matt McDonald, Tim Fields, Andrea Ajemian, Brendon Boyd, Peter Talieri, Paul C. McKinney, Natalie Warila | |
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Full Count | They were known as the Dream Team - five friends, as close as brothers, who had chalked up years of sports victories & shared experiences. But in the final summer before leaving their hometown and heading off to college, these lifelong friends will grow even closer as they band together to right an enigmatic wrong and redeem the reputation of one of their own, even at the risk of sacrificing their individual futures. Against the backdrop of a fateful softball game, old scores will be settled and boys will learn what it means to be men. (2007) | Michael Rooker, Jason Ritter, Nichols, William Baldwin, Chris Klein. | B0011V7PR8 |
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Game 6 | It's 1986 and a day in the life of playwright Nicky Rogan, who is torn and decides to skip his opening night on Broadway. Why? He thinks a critic is destined to hate his play and he can't pull himself away from watching his beloved Red Sox in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. (2005) | Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, Griffin Dunne, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Downey Jr. | B000EU1ONS |
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Girls Can Play | Sports writer, Jimmy Jones, yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris, is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey. (1937) | Jacqueline Wells (later renamed Julie Bishop), Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth. | B001VLNEGE |
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The Gladiators | The Gladiators is an inspirational family film about Jimmy Easton, an up and coming pro baseball player whose career is cut short by a devastating knee injury. Through a series of unpredictable events, Jimmy is involuntarily thrust back into the world of baseball - not as a player, but as a college coach. In search of a new identity for his life, Jimmy battles past demons as he tries to lead a team of athletic misfits out of the depths of baseball obscurity. (2009). | Ronald D. Alcazar, Sarah Blackford, ChrisAnn Brunsmann, Edward Bullard. | |
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Goodbye Franklin High | A high school athlete who must choose between the certainty of college or the possibility of a baseball career. Everyone associated with the boy has a different opinion, making the final decision all the more dramatic. (1978) | Lane Caudell, Ann Dusenberry, Darby Hinton. | |
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Gracie At The Bat | Old-time baseball player Clyde becomes the manager of a girl's softball team, the Fairmont Fillies, in this comedy that plays to his strength as a comic reactor. (1937) | Andy Clyde, Vernon Dent, Ann Doran. | |
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The Great American Pastime | Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact, that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife. (1956) | Tom Ewell, Anne Francis, Ann Miller. | B003GFYI0Y |
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Hardball | An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend. (2001) | Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane | B00005JKE4 |
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Headin' Home | Babe Ruth in his motion picture debut plays a character, appropriately named Babe, a country boy who the locals consider useless. He thinks he's got some batting talent, but no one will take him seriously until a rival team comes to town and engages him when their one of their own players can't make it. Babe hits a ball that soars five blocks and smashes through a church window. From that point on, his future fame is assured. -1920 | Babe Ruth, William Sheer, Ruth Taylor. | B001GZM4YI |
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The Heckler | An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody. (1940) | Charley Chase, Bruce Bennett, Don Beddoe, Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent, Monty Collins, Bess Flowers. | |
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Henry & Me | Based on Ray Negrons latest best-selling children's book, One Last Time: Good-Bye to Yankee Stadium, this animated film features a young boy battling illness who is taken on a magical adventure by a stranger named Henry. On their journey, the boy meets New York Yankee legends, both past and present, who give him lessons about baseball and life. (2010) | Richard Gere, Chazz Palminteri, Austin Williams, Luis Guzman, Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper, Alex Rodriguez, CC Sabathia, and the New York Yankees. | |
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Henry O | Documentary about blind Spanish-language color commentator for the Tampa Bay Devil Ray's, Enrique "Henry" Oliu, who does the impossible - he calls a game he's never seen. -2009 | Ziad H. Hamzeh, Enrique Oliu, Debbie Perry. | |
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Here Come The Tigers | A Little League comedyabout a wild team of misfits who think they can make it big. What's a coach to do with a chronic nose-picker, a flatulent fielder, an out-of-control pitcher, a juvenile delinquent and the prettiest girl in the state? Turn this bunch of losers into a winning team! And when their new coach enlists an unusual new teammate, it's a whole new ballgame as they band together to win their first championship, determined to prove that losers can be winners, too! | Kathy Bell, Noel Cunningham, Sean P. Griffin, Max McClellan, Kevin Moore. | B000BNXD5K |
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Hero | One man’s broken relationship with his son fills him with the determination to make a difference in his town, and to reach his own son. He forms a baseball team deliberately designed to involve both fathers and sons in a common effort. His actions begin to turn the heart of a father in prison, and transform a town. As fathers grow in their relationship with their sons, they learn that God the Father wants the same close relationship with them. (2010) | Sam Dubin, Justin Miles, Jim McKeny, Blaine T. F. Goodwin, Fred Griffith, Mark Joy, R. Keith Harris | |
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Hit and Run | A baseball scout gets off a train in the middle of the Western desert where a baseball game is undeway. Here, he finds and signs Swat Anderson, who also falls in love with the scout's sister. The team's crooked treasurer becomes jealous of the couple's relationship, and he kidnaps the sister knowing that Swat will come to her rescue. (1924) | Hoot Gibson, Marion Harlan, Cyril Ring. | |
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Hit to Right | Sam Lewis has become cautious, safer and more disciplined in life and raising his daughter Amy; He brings this approach to coaching his daughter's softball team, the classic baseball "hit to right" approach. Laura, Amy's teacher, does not share Sam's philosophies on life or baseball so when Sam needs Laura's help to coach the team while he runs for Senate there are clashes but eventually, he learns to relax and enjoy life. -2009 | Alan Schneier, Laura Stepp, Kaija Matiss. | |
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Home | In this documentary, York, Pennsylvania has long been the quintessential, salt-of-the-earth American town. When municipal, county and area business leaders unveiled a plan to level part of a low-income, residential neighborhood and build a minor league stadium, promising it to be the catalyst behind millions in urban redevelopment, who could argue? But what happens to those who lived in this neighborhood and made way for stadium? This is the story of baseball, urban redevelopment and the human cost of bringing them to York. -2009 | Cameron Texter. | |
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Home Run on the Keys | 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 | Babe Ruth, Zez Confrey, Byron Gay. | |
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Hustle | An ESPN Original Movie about the true story of hit king Pete Rose and the allegations brought against him about betting on baseball. Nicknamed "Charlie Hustle" for his play on the field, Rose took that same aggressive reputation off the field which ultimately led to lifetime banishment from the game he loved. (2004) | Dash Mihok, Sarain Boylan, Tom Sizemore | B0006Q941Y |
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Inning By Inning: A Portrait of a Coach | An intimate look inside the world of University of Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in NCAA Division I history in any sport. He is the winner of five National Championships (3 at Cal State Fullerton and 2 at UT) and the only coach to win National Championships in four different decades and at two different schools. The film examines this remarkable coach's career and unique approach to teaching the game with unprecedented access to his team meetings, practices, and conversations with players during games. (2008) | Augie Garrido, Cathy Clark, Roger Clemens, Buck Cody, J. Brent Cox. | B001NZ3E40 |
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Insignificance | Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) meet in this modern fable of post-WWII America. (1985) | Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, Theresa Russell, Michael Emil. | B0000844IL |
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It Happened in Flatbush | Frank “Butterfingers” Maguire, a former ballplayer, is given the opportunity to coach the Brooklyn Dodgers. All is well until he is distracted by love. A petition to remove Nolan redirects his energies and he leads the Yankees to win the pennant. (1942) | Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Sara Allgood, William Frawling, Robert Armstrong, Jane Danwell | B000KOC3AQ |
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It Happens Every Spring | A chemist invents a substance that repels wood and finds great success with it as a baseball player. He pitches his way to the World Series before he runs out of his secret weapon. (1949) | Ray Milland, Jean Peters | 6303037445 |
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It's Good To Be Alive | This is the amazingly heroic story of Roy Campanella the former Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Fame catcher whose career was cut short in 1958 when he lost the use of both legs in a tragic car accident. (1974) | Lou Gossett, Jr., Paul Winfield, Ruby Dee. | B000NA1W5O |
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The Jackie Robinson Story | A biography film of Jackie Robinson, uniquely starring as himself. Follow Jackie's struggles against prejudice from childhood, through college, the Negro Leagues and finally as he fights triumphantly to overcome the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers. -1950 | Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson, Louise Beavers | B0007IO75Y |
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Joe Torre: Curveballs Along The Way | Joe Torre grew up on the diamond, played for 18 years, and coached for 14, but in all that time, never once made it to the World Series. Now he's the new coach for the New York Yankees, and he wants the championship. Everyone in New York is predicting Joe will be out by the end of the season. To the world, it's hopeless. To Joe, it's a beginning. (1997) | Paul Sorvino, Robert Loggia, Barbara Williams. | B0002CE05C |
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Keeper of the Pinstripes | When Henry Ruiz, a young boy in the Bronx, is caught trespassing at Yankee Stadium, he's given the chance to work off his infraction as a helper to Pete Sheehy, the clubhouse manager. What he doesn't know is that Pete died in 1985. He's a ghost. Though the current Yankees have already moved from the old stadium to the new one, the ghosts of Yankees past are staying behind, following the lead of their captain, Lou Gehrig, the Iron Horse. But Henry can see the ghosts. And he can understand Gehrig sadly too well, given his own mother's own battle with illness. It turns out that he might be the only hope for convincing the Yankee ghosts to make the move - before the wrecking balls knock down their home forever. (2011) | Josh Lucas, Tim Robbins, Ivana Baquero, Jeff Garlin, Bernie Williams | |
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The Kid From Cleveland | Teen baseball fan Johnny Barrows sneaks into the baseball stadium of the Cleveland Indians, then playing in the 1948 World Series; claiming to be an orphan, he befriends team members & broadcaster Mike Jackson. But it develops that Johnny has a troubled home life with his mother and stepfather, and is involved in juvenile crime. His better side shows only when he runs away to visit the team again. Can Mike and the Indians wrest Johnny away from bad influences? (1949) | George Brent, Lynn Bari, Russ Tamblyn. | B001Y1MOMQ |
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The Kid From Left Field | Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for baseball to his son, Christie. When his dad gets fired, Chris makes friends with the former team owner's niece (and her boyfriend Pete), and not only gets his dad's job back, but a batboy position for himself. As a publicity stunt, the team makes him their youngest manager on record. But when Chris gets sick, Coop has to come to the rescue. (1953) | Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft, Billy Chapin | B00004WLV3 |
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The Kid From Left Field | The San Diego Padres are at the bottom of the standing and owner Fred Walker is considering selling the team. However when the team is begins to win like never before they're convinced it's because of their newly hired batboy, JR Cooper. The Padres now have the World Series in their sights but an interfering social worker tries to put an end to JR's job as batboy...and the Padres winning streak. (1979) | Gary Coleman, Ed McMahon, Robert Guillaume, Tab Hunter, Tricia O'Neil | B00004WLV3 |
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Kill The Umpire | Bill Johnson is a working man so enamored of America's pastime that he regularly loses jobs because he can't stay out of his favorite New York ballpark when he's supposed to be at the office. Loudly disdainful of all umpires, Bill gets both a blessing and a comeuppance when his father-in-law, a retired ump, sends him off to umpire school to learn the profession he deserves. After a lot of resistance, Bill understands the basic nobility of being the guy people love to hate despite also being necessary to baseball. (1950) | William Bendix, Ray Collins. | B000MNOX80 |
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Ladies Day | A top baseball pitcher loses his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. His teammates try to get him to settle down with one woman so they can start winning some games. (1943) | Lupe Velez, Eddie Albert, Patsy Kelly. | |
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The Last Home Run | Dying doctor Jonathan Lyle's last wish is granted, to be young again and play baseball, but only for five days. (1996) | Seymour Cassel, Thomas Guiry | 6304950411 |
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A League of Their Own | A drunken ex-baseball star manages a girls' baseball league while male baseball players are off fighting WWII. (1992) | Tom Hanks, Geena Davis | 0800177258 |
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The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg | Writer and director Aviva Kempner's documentary about baseball's first major Jewish star is a fascinating study of a man, a time in America, and a battle against anti-Semitism that Greenberg waged with his spirit and baseball skills. (1998) | Rabbi Reeve Brenner, Hank Greenberg | B00005NTOI |
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Little Big League | Upbeat baseball comedy about 12-year-old boy who inherits the Minnesota Twins and manages them himself. Kids and adults should love this good-natured, feel-good mainstream comedy. (1994) | Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield | B000069I1K |
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A Little Inside | An aspiring baseball player puts his big-league dreams on hold when he becomes a single father. The story spans five years and chronicles his struggles raising his precocious little girl and struggling at menial jobs. (2001) | Sean Michael Arthur, Hallie Kate Eisenberg | B00008DDUD |
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Long Gone | In the 1950s, a minor league baseball manager struggles for a championship with two colorful rookie players. (1987) | William Petersen, Henry Gibson | B00005JMHX |
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The Long Home Run | This documentary tells the story of the history of the College World Series and how the city of Omaha, Nebraska, has embraced the game as the host site for over 60 years. This film is narrated by Kevin Costner. (2010). | Narrated by:Kevin Costner | |
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A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story | Legendary ballplayer and humanitarian Lou Gehrig and his relationship with his stalwart wife, Eleanor are portrayed in this film that focuses on the Hall of Famer's life off the baseball field. Featuring unflinching looks at the Gehrig's relationship, as well as Lou's feud with Babe Ruth. This film is for anyone interested in baseball. (1978) | Blythe Danner, Edward Herrmann, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Ramon Bieri. | B00000IQCI |
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Major League | High-spirited, upbeat baseball comedy/farce about underdog team that goes for the pennant. Critics frowned on formulaic plot, but this is one of the all-time best baseball comedies. (1989) | Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen | B00006F7IM |
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Major League II | A loser baseball team has had one winning season, and must now cope with fame and the pressures of a follow up season. Doesn't stack up to Major League I. (1994) | Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger | B00004RF87 |
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Major League III Back to the Minors | Inspirational new manager turns inept minor league baseball team's fortunes around in this comedy. Tired sequel will disappoint anyone looking for big laughs, but on-field action may appease baseball junkies. (1998) | Scott Bakula, Corbin Bernsen | B00004RF84 |
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The Man From Left Field | Jack, a homeless man, stumbles onto a local sandlot and is found by a local little league team who just lost their coach. Jack, a former ballplayer, is forced into coaching the team as the kids inspire him to reclaim his life. (1993) | Burt Reynolds, Reba McEntire | B0007XG32Y |
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The Marksmen | A native Wausau boy named Tommy Madden makes it to big league baseball, but is forced to leave in disgrace. He returns home after the sudden death of his mother, and faces his father's disappointment in him, even though others consider him a hero. With the comfort of his high school sweetheart, he faces his past and leads a new team, The Marksmen, made up of his hometown buddies, to the national softball fastpitch tournament. (1997) | Jay Schillinger, Martha Byrne, Steve Kanaly, Martin Kove. | B00000ICE1 |
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Mean Streak | The hitting record of Joe Dimaggio is about to broken by a black player. Now a person who feels that it is sacred threatens that player if he breaks the record. Lou Mattoni, a detective, who is a little racist, is assigned to the case, and he is also forced to work with | B000053V91 | |
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Mickey | Glen, the recently-widowed father of Mickey Ryan, a 12-year-old boy who loves playing Little League Baseball, has to run away with his son to Las Vegas when he becomes the focus of an intensive IRS investigation. Once there, his son again joins the Little League, but the national attention his unusual baseball talent attracts may put these fugitives at risk of being found. (2002) | Harry Connick, Jr., Shawn Salinas, Michelle Johnson, Mike Starr | B00076YP0I |
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Moneyball | 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) | Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Robin Wright, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rick Yudt | |
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Mint Conditioned | Jackie comes up with the ultimate scheme: partnering with children to steal their fathers' vintage baseball cards. Jackie organizes his crew and the money starts rolling in, but he wants to take his scheme further--to the Internet. The only problem is, neither Jackie nor any of his half-witted crew members know anything about the web, forcing Jacking to scramble to survive in the seedy underworld of black-market baseball card deals. -2007 | Ryan Omvig, David Davis, Michael Caleb. | |
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Mr. Baseball | 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) | Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura | B00009AOAW |
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Mr. Destiny | Middle-aged, average Joe struck out in his final high school at bat. But with a little help, he gets to relive his shot at glory. This is an overlooked mainstream comedy which is funny, fantastical, and slapstick. (1990) | James Belushi, Linda Hamilton | B000068MC0 |
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Mr. Noisy | This remake of "The Heckler" has a noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers, to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when the heckler loses his voice. (1946) | Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent, Brian O'Hara. | |
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Mr. 3000 | Aging baseball star who goes by the nickname, Mr. 3000, finds out many years after retirement that he didn't quite reach 3,000 hits. Now at age 47 he's back to try and reach that goal. (2004) | Bernic Mac, Angela Bassett, Michael Rispoli, Brian J. White | B0006GAI64 |
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The Naked Gun | Wildly popular and appealing, anything-goes spoof of police dramas involving bumbling detective, who eventually poses as an umpire to catch a would-be assassin. Plenty of laughs for lovers of sight gags, physical humor, and madcap antics. (1988) | Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley | 0792166469 |
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The Natural | Slow-paced, offbeat period fantasy/drama about gifted, mysterious baseball player. With its opulent sets, polished period detail, charismatic star power, and twist-filled plot, this pleases fans of deeply sentimental fare. (1984) | Robert Redford, Robert Duvall | B000MNOX94 |
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Night Game | A serial killer strikes only during the Astros' night games, and a cop tries to find out who and why. (1989) | Roy Scheider, Karen Young | 6301929772 |
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Off The Black | An aging high school baseball umpire Ray Cook calls a pitch from Dave Tibbel a ball when it may have been a strike, and causes them to lose the game. Dave Tibbel seek revenge by trashing the ump's house. Instead of having Tibble arrested, the two form an unusual bond. -2006 | Trevor Morgan, Nick Nolte, Rosemarie DeWitt. | B000M343CQ |
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The Open Road | Carlton Garrett, son of Hall of Famer Kyle Garrett, plays minor league ball in Corpus Christi. He's in a slump when his grandfather calls to say that his mother, in Houston, is refusing a heart operation she needs to prolong her life. She says she won't have the operation until Kyle, her ex-husband, comes to see her. So Carlton, with his close friend Lucy, who used to be his girlfriend, goes to Columbus, Ohio, where Kyle is signing autographs. They haven't spoken in four years. Will Kyle go to Texas or will he find a way to duck out, as he's done for years? In addition to the father and son relationship, what about Lucy, and what about the slump? (2009) | Justin Timberlake, Jeff Bridges, Ted Danson, Harry Dean Stanton, Mary Steenburgen | B002PB4I4Q |
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Over The Fence | Babe Ruth saves kids from an arithmetic class so they can play baseball instead. -1932 | Babe Ruth. | |
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Pastime | A 41-year old pitcher facing retirement and hostility from his teammates in a 1957 minor league team befriends a 17-year old black rookie who's also been ostracized by the other players. (1991) | William Russ, Glenn Plummer | B00008978L |
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Past The Bleachers | Bill and his wife have recently had to live through a tragedy. When Bill decides to coach a little league baseball team, he meets a young mute boy named Lucky, who may be just what the team needs in order to win. A very mysterious child, Lucky helps heal the wounds from Bill's past. (1995) | Richard Dean Anderson, Barnard Hughes, Glynnis O'Connor, Ken Jenkins, Grayson Fricke | 630380991X |
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Perfect Game | Underdog Little Leaguers fire their treacherous coach and rally together to aim for the championship in this uplifting, family friendly comedy about the true meaning of sportsmanship. (2000) | Patrick Duffy, Tracy Nelson, Edward Asner | B000089797 |
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The Perfect Game | Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series. (2010) | Clifton Collins Jr., Cheech Marin, Moises Arias, Jake T. Austin, Jansen Panettiere | |
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Pinch Hitter | Shy Joel Parker seems bound for nowhere, until Abbie Nettleton enters his life. With her prodding, Joel goes from timid nobody to a baseball star with bravura. (1917) | Joseph J. Dowling, Louis Durham, Darrel Foss, Charles Ray, Jerome Storm. | B002MZV7FI |
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Pitcher and the Pin-Up | Danny and Melissa grew up together with promises of being life long friends. However, as they grew older they grew apart. Danny pursued his love for baseball, while Melissa struggles and ultimately becomes a pin-up. However, fate conspires to bring them back together. (2003) | Drew Johnson, Corinna Harney | B0007XBN2Y |
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PlayByPlayMen | They're the storytellers of those warm summer nights, for kids of all ages who never had the chance to get near a major league ballpark, but instead cradled radios against their ears to hear the calls of America's favorite pastime - baseball. PlayByPlay Men and the art of the perfect call is a documentary film devoted to those broadcasters who dedicate their lives to making that perfect call, and stars some of the most well-known baseball announcers of all time. -2007 | Joe Angel, Joe Castiglione, Ernie Harwell, Pat Hughs, Dave Niehaus. | |
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Playing For Peanuts | Join manager Wally Backman and the South Georgia Peanuts for a wild season in the minor leagues. The Peanuts endure long bus rides, disgusting living conditions and low pay in the hope that they will someday make it to the big leagues. 10 episodes aired on Comcast Sportsnet and feature appearances by Cecil Fielder, Conor Jackson, Ron Darling and author Jeff Pearlman. (2008) | Wally Backman, Cecil Fielder, Phil Plantier, Ron Darling, Conor Jackson. | B001NYRCIA |
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Playing With The Enemy | 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 | Toby Moore, Gary Moore. | |
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Pride Against Prejudice: The Larry Doby Story | In 1947, the year Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, Bill Veeck signed Larry Doby to the Cleveland Indians. The film traces Doby's career and argues that Doby, Robinson, Veeck, and Branch Rickey's contributions were not just to baseball, but to U.S. history. -2007 | Narrated by: Louis Gossett Jr. | 0275929841 |
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The Pride of St. Louis | Cookie-cutter biography of colorful sports legend Dizzy Dean. Dated, lighthearted, old-fashioned film pulls out all the old baseball cliches. Recommended only for rabid fans. (1952) | Dan Dailey, Joanne Dru | 6301599276 |
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Pride of the Yankees | Highly acclaimed, sentimental biopic about Lou Gehrig, the famed baseball player stricken with terminal disease. Much-loved, widely appealing, slow-moving drama remains a firm bet for lovers of pathos-tinged drama. (1942) | Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth. | B000069HZY |
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Rhubarb | Wonderful comedy about a stray cat who is taken in by an eccentric millionaire and named Rhubarb. After the man dies, Rhubarb inherits the bulk of his estate, including a cellar-dwelling pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. But when the Loons star winning under their feline owner, some local gangsters plot to steal the kitty. -1951 | Gene Lockart, William Frawley | B0019UGYBE |
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Road To The Big Leagues | Baseball in the Dominican Republic is not just a game. For many Dominicans the long, competitive road to a professional baseball career is one of the few viable | B001G0KB84 | |
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Roogie's Bump | A young boy who loves baseball develops a strange bump on his arm. The bump has such an effect on his pitching arm that he soon finds himself playing for a major league baseball team. (1954) | Ruth Warrick, Olive Blakeney, William Harrigan. | 6303982964 |
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The Rookie | A great story about the game's oldest rookie, Jim Morris, the former Tampa Bay hurler, and his small town story that turned into a big league reality. (2002) | Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths & Brian Cox | B000068DBE |
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Rookie of the Year | 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) | Thomas Ian Nicholas, Gary Busey | B00005RT3M |
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Rounding Home | Justin Mills wants to play professional baseball and earns a spot on a minor league team. Justin also meets Katey, the cutest girl in town. His best friend, Wes, visits Justin at the ball field to congratulate him, but Wes is struck by a car and killed. This horrific event sends Justin into an emotional coma. Justin attempts to cope with this and additional life hurdles, but his detachment causes him to make all the wrong decisions. (2006) | Michael Wallace, Kathryn Michelle, Nic d'Avirro. | |
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Safe at Home | A kid lies his way into a bind when he claims to be pals with baseball greats Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. (1962) | Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris | 6303962874 |
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The Sandlot | Nostalgic, sentimental drama about 60s neighborhood baseball team. Light entertainment for all ages, and especially survivors of Little League. (1993) | Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar | B00005RT3N |
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The Sandlot 2 | In the 12-years-since comedic sequel to 1993's The Sandlot, a new group of kids have moved into the sandlot. (2005) | Max Lloyd-Jone, James Wilson, Samantha Burton, Brett Kelly, Cole Evan Weiss, Neilen Benvegnu, Sean Berdy Rated PG Runtime: 97 minutes | B0007LLPWO |
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The Sandlot 3 | Sucessful, arrogant baseball superstar Tommy "Santa" Santorelli travels back in time to 1976 and relives his boyhood days on the sandlot baseball team, this time choosing friendship over glory and ultimately earing both. -2007 | Danny Nucci, Luke Perry, Sarah Deakins | B000ND91WC |
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The Scout | Mood-swinging baseball movie about talent scout discovering teen phenomenon starts out as light comedy, abruptly becomes deeply sentimental drama. Best reserved for true baseball fans, due to its abundant baseball cameos. (1994) | Albert Brooks, Brendan Fraser | B00005NGAZ |
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Signs Of The Time | Baseball of the 19th century was America's most popular spectator sport. There were no signals for strike, safe, out or foul and no announcer to interpret the game. Prior to the invention of baseball signs, the only signal was the umpire's voice, consumed by the roar of thousands of excited fans. Where did the signs of baseball originate? Who invented them? Signs of the Time explores the origins of this pivotal innovation and the baseball pioneers that changed the course of the game and history. (2008) | Narrator: Richard Dreyfuss Interviewed: Brooks Robinson, Bob Feller, Earl Weaver, Larry Barnett, Jim Evans. | |
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Silly Little Game | Fantasy Sports is estimated to be a $4 billion industry that boasts over 30 million participants and a league for almost every sport imaginable. But for all this success, the story of the game’s inception is little known. The modern fantasy leagues can be traced back to a group of writers and academics who met at La Rotisserie Francaise in New York City to form a baseball league of their own: The Rotisserie League. The game quickly grew in popularity, and with the growing use and attractiveness of the Internet, the “founding fathers” never foresaw how their creation would take off and ultimately leave them behind. An ESPN 30 For 30 Film. (2010) | Narrator: Dan Okrent, Lee Eisenberg, Geln Waggoner, Valerie Salembier, Peter Gethers, Rob Fleder. | |
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61* | Emotional, nostalgic baseball drama about the friendship and professional competition between the NY Yankees' beloved-but-troubled Mickey Mantle and loathed but steadfast Roger Maris. A first-rate portrait for sports lovers and character-drama fans. -2001 | Barry Pepper, Thomas Jane MPAA Rating: NR | B00005M20J |
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Slide, Babe, Slide | Babe Ruth gets off a train, and joins in a baseball game with some kids who refuse to believe he is the Babe until one of them produces a newspaper. (1932) | Babe Ruth. | |
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Slide, Kelly, Slide | Jim Kelly is a self-styled baseball whiz who talks himself into a job with the New York Yankees. Though his boundless braggadocio is backed up by his talent on the baseball field, Kelly soon alienates himself from the rest of his teammates. Veteran Yankee catcher Tom Munson -- also the father of Kelly's sweetheart Mary -- tries to set the young upstart straight, but Kelly isn't interested. (1927) | William Haines, Sally O'Neil, Harry Carey. | 1578860032 |
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Slow Moe | A young boy dreams of becoming a great baseball players but no matter how hard he tries, he can't improve... Until he finds a pair of glasses that turn him into the greatest player ever! But the glasses disappear and he learns that winning doesn't mean anything if you aren't proud of how you play. (2009) | Scotty Leavenworth, Emily Philips, Marc John Jeffries | B002NLU6PS |
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The Slugger's Wife | Critics were scathing toward this slow-paced, episodic romantic comedy about an obnoxious baseball player who falls for a singer. Only for die-hard, desperate romantics seeking quick fix. -1985 | Michael O'Keefe, Rebecca DeMornay | B00018D3VE |
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Somewhere In Georgia | The film casts Cobb as himself, a bank clerk with a talent for baseball. When he's signed to play with the Detroit Tigers, Cobb is forced to leave his sweetheart behind, whereupon a crooked bank cashier sets his sights on the girl. The cashier arranges for Cobb to be kidnapped. Breaking loose from his bonds, Cobb beats up each each and every one of his captors and shows up at the ballfield, just in time to win the game. (1916) | Ty Cobb, Elsie MacLeod, William Corbett. | |
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Soul of the Game | Black baseball greats, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, vie to be the first afro-American major leaguer, only to see the outspoken rookie, Jackie Robinson, be chosen. (1996) | Delroy Lindo, Mykelti Williamson, Blair Underwood | B000053V7F |
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Speedy | Speedy loses his job as a soda-jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. (1928) | Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Brooks Benedict, Babe Ruth. | B000B5XOS4 |
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Squeeze Play | 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) | Jim Harris, Jenni Hetrick | B00005MKN9 |
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Stealing Home | A washed-up baseball player is called back home to deal with his childhood sweatheart who had committed suicide. There, he remembers the past and the relationship they had, and finds himself again. (1988) | Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster | 0790742853 |
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Still We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie | Paul Doyle Jr.'s documentary about Red Sox Nation and the long-suffering team chronicles the 2003 season that ended for the Red Sox when Aaron Boone's home run cleared the wall at Yankee Stadium in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series. Little did Doyle know how soon his subject would reverse its "curse." (2004) | Paul Constine | B0002ABUWU |
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The Stratton Story | Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms. (1949) | James Stewart, June Allyson | B000FTCLRG |
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Sugar | Dominican baseball star Miguel "Sugar" Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. minor-leagues. (2008) | Algenis Perez Soto, Jorge Ramirez | B002E01LOI |
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Summer Catch | 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) | Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel | B00005QW6W |
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game | 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) | Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly | 6301978366 |
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Taking Care of Business | 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) | James Belushi, Charles Grodin | B00005T7HC |
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Talent for the Game | 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) | Edward James Olmos, Lorraine Bracco | B00007LP8J |
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This Old Cub | This fun, nostalgic and sentimental documentary is a labor of love from a son to his father. Jeff Santo made the film about his father, Ron, the former Cubs star third baseman and broadcaster who has delighted fans throughout his long history with the team. (2004) | Jeff Santo, Ron Santo | B0009WFFTK |
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Three Nights in August | Based on the book by Buzz Bissinger, the movie focuses on manager Tony LaRussa as he guides the St. Louis Cardinals through a three-game series against the Chicago Cubs in 2003. (2011) | Kevin Pollak, Billy Bob Thornton, Tony LaRussa | B0009WFFTK |
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Tiger Town | A young Detroit Tigers fan's faith helps to put the spark back in an about-to-retire player's game. Only view this movie with children. (1983) | Roy Scheider, Justin Henry | B0001I55ZG |
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Touching Home | The true story about a father struggling to make amends with his twin sons as they pursue their dreams of professional baseball. (2008) | Ed Harris, Brad Dourif, Robert Forster. | |
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Touching Home: Baseball In The Bushes | A close-up look into the world of low level professional baseball. This film follows the team in preseason during tryouts and until the last pitch in September. The film goes everywhere - road trips, practices, games, homes, dugouts, locker rooms. It touches base with owners, general managers, managers, players, coaches, fans, radio broadcasters, host families, etc. It shows how much goes on behind the scenes in a baseball season. And the effort needed to keep a franchise alive in Independent Baseball. (2005) | Documentary. | B0009XMV3W |
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Touching The Game, Alaska | Alaska is well known for its majestic scenery, captivating wildlife, and strong indigenous culture, but few know about its rich baseball tradition. America’s pastime has an amazing history in the 49th state spanning more than 100 years, and for the last forty years the Alaska Baseball League has been at it’s epicenter. (2009) | Jim Carroll, Jacoby Ellsbury, Tom Seaver, Dave Winfield. | B002ZOP05Y |
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Touching The Game, Cape Cod | A unique and insightful documentary following the experiences of college baseball players as they compete in one of the most prestigious amateur leagues in the country, The Cape Cod Baseball League. (2004) | Jim Carroll | B0002US54G |
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Trading Hearts | 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) | Raul Julia, Beverly D'Angelo | 6301025059 |
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Two Mugs From Brooklyn | A pair of cabdrivers recall in flashback how they built up their thriving taxi business. Tim was quite a baseball pitcher, and it was this skill that enabled him to collect a huge reward by subduing racketeer Glorio with a well-aimed monkey wrench. (1942) | William Bendix, Grace Bradley, Joe Sawyer, Sheldon Leonard. | B000WMUGXC |
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Up For Grabs | The absurd true story of the legal battle over the "Million-Dollar Baseball." Barry Bonds' record setting 73rd home run ball sparks a melee in the stands. One guy caught the ball, another guy ended up with it. Who is the rightful owner? The lawyers can't agree; the fans can't agree; even the wisened professors of property law can't agree. This is a story documenting the hilarious lengths to which someone will go for a baseball, and the few fans that will put their lives on hold for years, staking everything on one judge's decision. -2007 | Marty Appel, Barry Bonds, Patrick Hayashi, Alex Popov | |
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Wait Till This Year | Follow the historic 2004 Boston Red Sox season through the eyes of a female fan! Monika loves her husband, Ges, and she loves her team, the Boston Red Sox, just not necessarily in that order! -2004 | Cast: Monika Lahiri, Ges Selmont, Chris Kies, Stephen Kunken. | B00005B32G |
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When it was a Game | Baseball documentary is loaded with footage previously thought to be lost to time. Incorporates action from 1925-71, full of magical moments for sports fans as well as heritage historians. (1992, 1993, 1998) | Cast: Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, Billy Crystal, Bob Costas | B00005B32G |
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Whistling In Brooklyn | A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder. -1943 | Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Rags Ragland, Jean Rogers. | 6302717698 |
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Wide Awake | Earnest, seriocomic coming-of-age tale details a nine-year-old's struggles with religious faith after his grandfather's death. Families may appreciate the film's sensitive, inspirational message, though some grown-ups find it cloyingly sentimental. (1998) | Joseph Cross, Timothy Reifsnyder | 6305784817 |
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A Winner Never Quits | A one-armed outfielder plays baseball for the St. Louis Browns during WWII and is idolized by a handicapped youngster. (1986) | Keith Carradine, Mare Winningham | 6302804582 |
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The Winning Season | 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) | Kristin Davis, Mark Rendall, Matthew Modine | B0007R4TIA |
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The Winning Team | Bio-pic of baseball legend Grover Cleveland Alexander, who became a star despite an early career handicap. (1952) | Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Miller, James Millican | 6302344891 |
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Workin' For Peanuts | The daughter of a stadium owner and a young stadium vendor become romantically involved. Complications ensue because of the teenagers' diverse social class and economic backgrounds. His dad is out of work, she spends winters in Aspen and summers in Switzerland. Her parents and friends are against the relationship as well and then he begins to have thoughts too. (1985) | Jessica Steen, Carl Marotte, Shawn David Thompson, August Schellenberg, John Hemphill, Elva Mai Hoover. | B000J4222G |
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Yankees West | The story of the Pacific Coast League and also a love story - that of Earl, a PCL-favored player, and Emma, a Hollywood starlet - against the backdrop of gangsters, racism, nearly forgotten history, and the raw original game of baseball. Earl works his way through the PCL in hopes to be traded to a Major League Baseball team, only to be hampered by management greed and dirty ball playing. Emma, an actress, wants to be a star and is not willing to give up that dream. In the end, neither ends up with what they originally thought, yet their love does survive. (2008) | ||
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The Yankles | About Charlie Jones, a washed up, ex-major league ballplayer, and how he gets a second chance at life and love by managing a Jewish, orthodox yeshiva baseball team. (2009) | Brian Wimmer, Bart Johnson, Don Most. |