For-ev-er.. for-ev-er..

That 2 off days in 5 days sucks.

Period.

Worst baseball movie. My vote, Fever Pitch, solely for its bastardization of a great book, into a romantic “comedy” about the Red Sox.

Oddly enough, though I love watching baseball, I’ve never been a big fan of baseball movies. I used to like “Angels in the Outfield” when I was a kid, but I’ve since outgrown it. However, to this day, “A League of Their Own” is still one of my favorite movies, and it has one of the best baseball movie lines of all time (see above).

By the way, I would not vote for this myself, but I’ve been asked to suggest “Cobb” for something you could put in “Other.”

I still cry my way thru it because I think of my grampa and dad, but why isn’t Pride of the Yankees on this list? Hubby voted for A League of Their Own. I can’t vote in the side bar without feeling that my favs aren’t there. Phooey. I just love baseball movies period. I’m saving a place in left field at Michigan and Trumble for my ashes grampa.

I was a kid when the original Bad News Bears came out. That movie is a classic, and I really enjoy the first sequel. Kelly Leak was one of my childhood idols. I refused to see the remake a couple years ago.

Bull Durham is probably the best, followed by the Natural, but Field of Dreams gets me every time. I mean what guy doesn’t wish he had one more game of catch with his dad?

The Natural
Bull Durham
Bang the Drum Slowly

A more interesting poll might be the “worst” baseball movie…like that one where Gary Coleman became a manager, back in the 80’s…

“Field of Dreams” and “Major League”? Maybe. “Bull Durham”? I suppose. But how in the hell does “The Sandlot” have more votes than “The Natural”? I actually thought that that was the baseball movie with Keanu Reeves. Bernard Malamud is rolling in his grave.

I lost a little respect for 23 anonymous people today.

Okay, so like Boswell says, it’s Bull Durham and then everything else.

But nobody thought to mention Tiger Town, the low budget tearjerker which, unlike For Love of the Game, actually takes place at Tiger Stadium, and shows off those lovely Tiger whites.

I’m a kind of dork who has a whole shelf of baseball movies (and visits www.baseballmovie.com). There’s a lot of gems out there that time forgot. One thing I’ve noticed is that the Tigers are ubiquitous in baseball flicks. They’re the central team in For Love of the Game (which, for the Tiger fan nerd, even lets you track the progression of years by the road unis, which, like, awesome), as well as Cobb and Tiger Town. Billy Crystal’s 61* is shot in Tiger Stadium, which highlights several actual ‘61 games against Detroit (although the chair-throwing incident depicted in the movie (a) happened in 1960, not ’61, and (b) was in response to a foul ball mistakenly called a home run, not a knock on Maris, who actually noted during the home run chase that Detroit — which felt toward Mantle what we feel toward Jeter today — was one of the only towns pulling for him). (Sorry about the long parenthetical). The Winning Season takes a kid back to the Pirates’ 1909 World Series versus Detroit. A Winner Never Quits, the Pete Gray story, has (beyond the Mud Hen scenes) a scene in the end in which Gray’s Browns take on the wartime Tigers with Detroit blackout rules in effect. The Babe, and Major League depict games played against the Tigers, and Pride of the Yankees has that famous “Dahlgren now in for Gehrig” scene at newly double-decked Briggs on May 2, 1939, (which the Yanks won 22-2 — ouch!), the end of his consecutive games played streak. Eight Men Out erroneously depicts the White Sox clinching the AL Pennant on the last day of the season while hosting the Tigers; the Sox did host Detroit for their final home stand (and lost both), but they clinched over Cleveland four days earlier when the Indians were defeated (in Detroit), and the Sox beat the Browns. However, the gift of flat champagne did happen after the last game of the season, which the Sox dropped to Detroit 10-9.