It Happens Every Spring: Your Favorite Baseball Movie?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

[Biophilic]

1. Damn Yankees. It's a touch old.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. 🤗

[Diamond_Dog]

3. I have two favorites.

Major League and A League of Their Own.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. ☺️

[Niagara]

5. A League Of Their Own

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. 🤗

[GPV]

22. Same

[electric_blue68]

7. Field of Dreams - always!

🧡⚾🥎

And cue that wonderful soundtrack! 🎼 🎶🎵

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. ☺️

[highplainsdem]

8. Another vote for Field Of Dreams!

[electric_blue68]

16. Cool, never saw this vid.

[highplainsdem]

19. I watched it live. Gave me goosebumps.

[electric_blue68]

20. Wow 👍

[Boomerproud]

34. For pure emotion nothing can replace that first Field of Dreams game.

Nobody could have written a better script.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. ☺️

[Shrek]

10. For Love of the Game n/t

[Floyd R. Turbo]

24. 🤗

[WestMichRad]

54. I second this choice!

[Nac Mac Feegle]

56. My favorite too

Mt

[blm]

11. It Happens Every Spring, of course.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

25. 😁

[QED]

12. Field of Dreams

"I've just created something totally illogical."

"He winked at me."

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.” – Terence Mann

[electric_blue68]

17. Loved Jane's Earl Jones as Terrance Mann!

[Shrek]

57. "Oh my God! You're from the sixties!"

Cracks me up every time.

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[electric_blue68]

58. It's pretty funny! 😀

[Floyd R. Turbo]

26. ☺️

[Shrek]

59. Chevy turned this into a commercial which was surprisingly okay

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[QED]

60. I forgot about that.

Chills every time I hear it.

[Mad_Dem_X]

13. Bull Durham

Second Place - A League of Their Own

[Floyd R. Turbo]

27. 😃

[TexasBushwhacker]

55. I'm a BD fan too n/t

[cachukis]

14. "Angels in the Outfield." Paul Douglas version. 1951

[Floyd R. Turbo]

28. 😃

[Tommy Carcetti]

15. The Natural is absolutely beautiful in terms of cinematography...

...and vastly improves on the downer ending of the source book.

Can't go wrong with Field of Dreams when it comes to an emotional punch.

Little Big League (1994) is a whole lot of fun. A League of Their Own is a good watch, and Major League is good for some laughs.

But The Natural...gives me chills every time I watch it.

Cinematography was done by Caleb Deschanel, father of actresses Zoey and Emily. He also did cinematography for The Right Stuff, which is equally as stunning.

Perhaps the most unheralded "star" of The Natural was Buffalo's War Memorial Stadium, which perfectly mimics the feel of a 1930s era ballpark in all its dark, vast, hulking glory.

[electric_blue68]

18. I was coming back to mention "The Natural".

If I remember right (been decades) he hits one, and the ball hits the light stand up on the stadium roof. And you see him running round the bases as sparks from the shattered light rug fall around the bases.

Wonderful stuff!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

29. 🤗

[Not Heidi]

21. Field of Dreams and Bull Durham n/t

[Floyd R. Turbo]

30. ☺️

[First Speaker]

31. Pride of the Yankees...

...I mean, who else but Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig? And the Babe as himself! (He's pretty good.) Schmaltz, yes...but great schmaltz.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

32. 🥹

[Brother Buzz]

33. The Battered Bastards of Baseball

It's a whole lot more than a mere documentary; it's a glimpse into what baseball would have, could have, should have been.

All that's left today are memories and 'Big League Chew'. Oh, and a left handed catchers glove destine for Cooperstown.

[gratuitous]

35. You can't stop a JoGarza!

There are a couple of clips in the trailer of people waving brooms and some guy running on top of the dugout carrying a broom. That was Joe Garza, who would bring out the broom when the Mavericks were about to sweep a series. The opposing teams didn't like it. The umpires didn't like it. The league didn't like it. The fans loved it.

[Brother Buzz]

37. The batboy, Todd Field, was the dude modifying the 'tiki torch' brooms Joe Garza lit on fire

Not only was the first batch of Major League Chew cooked in his family kitchen, Todd Field went on to a successful career in the Hollywood 'Industry'.

William Todd Field (born February 24, 1964) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for directing In the Bedroom (2001), Little Children (2006), and Tár (2022), which were nominated for a combined fourteen Academy Awards. Field has personally received six Academy Award nominations for his films, two for Best Picture, two for Best Adapted Screenplay, one for Best Director, and one for Best Original Screenplay.

Early life
Field was born in Pomona, California, where his family ran a poultry farm.[2] When Field turned two, his family moved to Portland, Oregon, where his father went to work as a salesman, and his mother became a school librarian. At an early age, he became interested in performing sleight-of-hand and later music.

As a child in Portland, Field was a batboy for the Portland Mavericks, a single A independent minor league baseball team owned by Hollywood actor Bing Russell. Kurt Russell, Bing's son and later an actor in his own right, also played for the Portland Mavericks during this time. Field and Mavericks pitching coach Rob Nelson created the first batch of Big League Chew in the Field family kitchen. In 1980, Nelson and former New York Yankees all-star Jim Bouton sold the idea to the Wrigley Company. Since that time more than a billion pouches have been sold worldwide.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

40. 😃

[ProfessorGAC]

36. I Have FavoriteS, Plural

Sandlot, Field Of Dreams, The Rookie (Dennis Quaid), Rookie Of The Year, Major League (all 3), Trouble With The Curve, Moneyball, Hardball (Keanu Reeves), The Natural...
I'm a sucker for sports movies.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

41. 😁

[Initech]

38. Not really a movie but I have to pimp one of my favorite Simpsons episodes: Homer At The Bat

[Floyd R. Turbo]

42. ☺️

[sarge43]

39. Can't pick just one, so ...

Bull Durham, Major League and Field of Dreams.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

43. 🤗

[malthaussen]

44. Hmm, maybe "Bang the Drum Slowly."

I frankly haven't seen many good baseball movies.

-- Mal

[Floyd R. Turbo]

45. Good movie!

[Tom Kitten]

46. Rhubarb

Rhubarb (1951)
About a cat who inherits a baseball team.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

49. 🤗

[XanaDUer2]

47. Original Bad News Bears

Funny as Hell

[Floyd R. Turbo]

50. ☺️

[Upthevibe]

48. Floyd R. Turbo ..........

My favorites are, A League Of Their Own and Major League....

[Floyd R. Turbo]

51. 😃

[red dog 1]

52. Moneyball

[Floyd R. Turbo]

53. 💵⚾️🤗