Great Baseball Movies

by Tom Dakers on Nov 7, 2008 5:47 PM EST in Fun Comment 15 comments

Paul Molitor, to no one's surprise I'm sure, won the DH poll. Dave Winfield came in second and to much derision Matt Stairs got a few votes.

Since I'm not ready to start the pitchers polls I thought we'd have a time out and have a pool on people's favorite baseball movies. Movies and baseball are favorites of mine so if you put the two together I'm a happy camper....generally. There have been a lot of good baseball movies, more bad ones but that's a poll for a different week. I'm not going to include any movies where friggin' animals play the game, so if your favorite baseball movie includes dogs or monkeys or any other animals.....well...we don't want your vote.

As always if you vote 'other' use the comments area to let us know which. And can use the comments area to champion your favorite.

Poll

What is your favorite Baseball movie?

Angels in the Outfield...a favorite of my kids.....

3 votes

Bad News Bears

3 votes

Bull Durham

5 votes

Cobb....a terrific movie if you haven't seen it.

2 votes

Eight Men Out

4 votes

Fever Pitch

1 votes

Field of Dreams

13 votes

A League of Their Own

3 votes

The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg....one I want to see

0 votes

Major League

17 votes

Mr. Baseball....another favorite

2 votes

The Natural....a favortie of my wife...Robert Redford....

4 votes

Pride of the Yankees...another favorite of mine

0 votes

61*

2 votes

Something Else? Let us know what....

5 votes

Bang the Drum Slowly

1 votes

For the Love of the Game

0 votes

The Rookie

1 votes

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I asked this question back at the beginning of the year.

You might’ve mentioned the Sandlot, which is a favorite of many. But the answer, haha, is Eight Men Out

"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman

by hugo on Nov 7, 2008 6:02 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

oh gee....I forgot that you had.....

whoops….Eight Men Out is a good choice…..I thought Cobb was a great movie though…I can’t decide yet

by Tom Dakers on Nov 7, 2008 6:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

No love for Mr. 3000?

Good.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on Nov 7, 2008 8:40 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

You missed Little Big League and Rookie of the Year

The latter ignores the existence of the draft, while the former ignores inheritance taxes. (Let’s assume the other owners don’t veto a 12yo being an owner.) And are those ESPN mini-series too long to count?

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on Nov 7, 2008 8:49 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I was torn about putting up Bronx is Burning.....

and then put up *61……I really enjoyed Bronx is Burning.

by Tom Dakers on Nov 8, 2008 12:41 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Eight Men Out is my favorite, but Sam Raimi's For the Love of the Game is really excellent as well.

J.K.L.

by acblue on Nov 8, 2008 2:34 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I haven't seen it

but Bang the Drum Slowly is supposed to be an excellent baseball movie as well.

by SuckaMD on Nov 8, 2008 1:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I voted Major League

But also really liked:

For Love of the Game
The Rookie

by bunner on Nov 10, 2008 11:21 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I haven't seen For the Love of the Game...

I guess I should. The Rookie I didn’t like much but likely should have put both of them on the list.

by Tom Dakers on Nov 10, 2008 12:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Bang the Drum Slowly

haven’t seen it in YEARS but still gets my vote.

Tommy Lee Jones was created to play Cobb and I have fondness for both Bull Durham and 8 Men Out, but Bang the Drum Slowly gets my vote, Gentlemen.

by stephen was taken on Nov 10, 2008 5:09 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

he was a perfect Cobb.....

Makes you feel he’d be a creep in real life too. I’ll add those three mentioned to the poll.

by Tom Dakers on Nov 10, 2008 5:44 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

well

we got most of the best player polls wrong, why should the best movie poll be any different?

"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman

by hugo on Nov 11, 2008 6:58 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I don't have the affection for Field of Dreams that other people do

I like the book a lot more, maybe because Kevin Costner wasn’t in the book. The writer WP Kinsella is from Alberta, I met him once. He has a similar story to Steven King, he was hit by a car when he was out taking a walk one day. After recovering he couldn’t concentrate for long enough periods of time to write, though I believe he is better now.

by Tom Dakers on Nov 11, 2008 10:47 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs