Best Baseball Movie Of All-Time?

by ktrain203 on Jul 14, 2008 10:49 AM PDT Comment 52 comments

Damnit this is a good debate to have at your local bar or pub. You order a couple beers with your buddies (or even the nearest stranger) and begin debating the merits of Bull Durham vs. Field of Dreams (do you prefer laughing with Kevin Costner or crying with him?) You move on to women playing baseball vs. kids playing baseball (League of Their Own vs. Sandlot) and then profess your love for either Roy Hobbs in The Natural vs. Roger Maris in 61*. I don't think there's any other sport that has as many great movies made about it that open up the opportunity for debate, discussion and disaggreament.

Here's a great 16-seed bracket of the the greatest baseball movies of all-time. Make your vote, make your argument.

http://fromthedugout.freedomblogging.com/2008/07/14/best-baseball-movie-ever-you-make-the-call/

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Major League

no doubt about. Juuuuuuuuuuuuuust a bit outside!

Gather around, children, for the Legend of Mighty Kirk McCaskill

by HaloDutch on Jul 14, 2008 10:51 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

my first date

When I was fifteen I took a girl (err, had our parents drop us off at the theater) to see The Natural. I was too nervous to remember much of the movie besides that big HR.

Unlike Roy Hobbs, I struck out.

by yeswecan on Jul 14, 2008 11:09 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

In Other Words

It was more like the book, which is a tragedy.

by jjackflash on Jul 14, 2008 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Kevin Costner's "For Love of the Game" ...... Just Kidding!

Eight Men Out, Bang the Drum Slowly, and Field of Dreams … not necessarily in that order.

“Fever Pitch” – Boston Red Sox propagandist piece, Bawston infomercial du Garbage sold as a chick flick. For a glimpse at your typical Sox fan, watch “Gone, Baby Gone”

You ever feel as if your mind had started to erode?

by PieceOfAase on Jul 14, 2008 11:11 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

That Jimmy Dugan pee in A League of their Own was pretty funny...

He even lets out a little fart if you listen closely. Tom Hanks makes that movie. The “there’s no crying in baseball” rant is a work of creative genius.

I think i’m gonna have to go with Bull Durham though. As an added bonus, there’s enough of a corny plot to convince my girlfriend its worth watching every once in a while.

my bad...k-rod is good.

by NoDakHalo on Jul 14, 2008 11:18 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Bull Durham

Am I the only one who found Susan Sarandon extremely annoying in that movie?

by Higz on Jul 14, 2008 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

she's annoying in every movie

but other things make up for her casting…

my bad...k-rod is good.

by NoDakHalo on Jul 14, 2008 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

as featured prominently in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby

by Higz on Jul 14, 2008 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

oooh

brought back good memory. Thank Higz

GA GA he's the man, if he can't do it, no one can

by Moondoggy on Jul 15, 2008 8:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Susan Sarandon

I don’t know there was one scene where I really wanted to bang her! She is hot old B!

Light up the Freakin Halo!

by marshgr on Jul 16, 2008 3:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

GODDAMNIT

its that effin OC register linkwhore again, they suckered me into getting page views.

I AM THOR, GOD OF THUNDER. BOW TO MY WILL AND MY HAMMER!

by anaheim angels on Jul 14, 2008 11:37 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

The streak continues

4 Fan posts, 0 comments—all the fan posts link to OC Register articles/blogs

by gilbert on Jul 14, 2008 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rev, I know we're a welcoming, inclusive group, live and let live and all that...

...but I for one wouldn’t feel all that much remorse if you brought down the banhammer on this wannabe hack

I see red people

by The Limey on Jul 14, 2008 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think he's running out of time

My guess is, the Rev is giving him every opportunity to link to this blog the way he’s linking to his here. Time’s running out, OCR troll….

by yeswecan on Jul 14, 2008 5:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

In train's defense...there IS a link to hh there, now.

by Downing Rules on Jul 14, 2008 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

i should've clarified

i’m talking about quid pro quo in the form of a major story reference like a “look at what they’re discussing over at HH” type of thing, the way he’s pimping his own articles from here.

by yeswecan on Jul 14, 2008 5:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Mr. Baseball

I love that damn movie. SO early 90’s.

"Bloody your hands on a cactus tree/
Wipe it on your dress and send it to me."

by Hutch83 on Jul 14, 2008 11:39 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

The Natural

The book is a total bummer, but the movie is epic.

What can I say? I’m a sucker for happy endings.

And now it’s off to Madam Wong’s…

by Higz on Jul 14, 2008 11:45 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Worst Movie

I’ve ever seen. Actually, it’s not so bad a movie, but it’s not The Natural. It would be like doing a movie of Romeo & Juliet, except that they live happily ever after.

by jjackflash on Jul 14, 2008 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

If you accept the film for what it is and not for what it's not, it's enjoyable.

by Higz on Jul 14, 2008 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

OK

I’ll accept that. But I had just read the book about a year before, and had quite enjoyed it. So, it was not possible for me to “accept” a film called “The Natural” with a character named Roy Hobbs that, quite simply, was not “The Natural.” It was a completely different story, which happened to have the same title and characters’ names. Like I said, imagine a movie called Romeo & Juliet, featuring the Capulets & Montagues, except that it ends with a joyous wedding celebration, peace between the families, and everyone lives happily ever after. It might make for a nice date movie, but it would not be Romeo & Juliet.

by jjackflash on Jul 14, 2008 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yuppers

+1 on the Natural.

The movie has some problems, but it’s the only one that always gets my hair to stand on end during the big hits.

by elricsi on Jul 14, 2008 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

i dig a few...

Rookie of the Year (just for the laughs at the Cubs winning the WS)
A League of Their Own
Field of Dreams

and more… those are just the first 3 i thought of

Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.

by howiestheman on Jul 14, 2008 12:31 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Rookie of the Year used to be my favorite movie.

harry gardenrowner or whatever his name is was awesome

I AM THOR, GOD OF THUNDER. BOW TO MY WILL AND MY HAMMER!

by anaheim angels on Jul 14, 2008 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

gardenhoser?

Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.

by howiestheman on Jul 14, 2008 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

This freaking guy again!

Stop it! Your paper is garbage. You are a tool. A TOOL, sir.

"I've got more action than my man John Woo
And I've got mad hits like I was Rod Carew" - Shure Shot, The Beastie Boys

by Zoe Necrosis on Jul 14, 2008 1:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Why am I a tool?

We’ve got an agreement with Rev Halofan where halosheaven.com is linked on our site and our Angels blog and things we post that might be interesting to Angels fans or just baseball fans are going up on the fanposts here. You don’t have to click on the link if you don’t want, it’s just there for anyone that’s interested or just wants to talk about it.

by ktrain203 on Jul 14, 2008 4:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

what bothers us is that you just post the stories and never comment on anything.

We didnt even know whether you were a real person or just a computer.

I AM THOR, GOD OF THUNDER. BOW TO MY WILL AND MY HAMMER!

by anaheim angels on Jul 14, 2008 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Face the music.

You got your AA degrees in Marketing and Computer Science under your belt from Orange Coast College.

You have been running circles around your mom and dad on the family computer at home for more than a decade. This made you Master Of The Universe on your block as a teenager.

You dabbled as a script-kiddie in underground web sites, giving you enough lingo to dazzle the department heads at the OC Register.

Now you have your first big-league gig: viral marketing promotion of the OC Register sports pages.

And your Great Big Idea is to create pseudo-posts here to drag fans off the most prominent local sports fan blog over to your site of almost zero meaningful content. (Free baseball film tip: Damned Yankees)

Face it, kid: your career choice is a bust up to this point. Weak sauce. Contribute and earn some credibility, or thou shalt always appear to folks here as a blog whore. Knowing enough to link to Halos Heaven is the only smart thing you have done so far…

by Stirrups on Jul 14, 2008 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I believe he said he has an agreement with the Rev.

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 14, 2008 5:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rev blasted him last week, and it sounds like something resulted...

http://www.halosheaven.com/2008/7/7/566388/interview-with-second-base#7221666

snippet:
OC REGISTER GUERILLA MARKETING
The geniuses at the OC REGISTER have figured out how to blog-whore with link-whore posts!!!!!!!!!!

Hey OCR, let’s see your fishwrap throw a shout-out and a link to HALOS HEAVEN some time in the next 48 hours, c’mon OC Register …

by Rev Halofan on Jul 7, 2008 12:45 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

by Downing Rules on Jul 14, 2008 5:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You can find out more about him by googling his screen name...

someone from Redlands or somewheres…

by Downing Rules on Jul 14, 2008 3:06 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

"Hey....Dad?......(voice breaking) wanna have a catch?

Field of Dreams

Period….Exclamation Point….End of discussion

As sappy as it gets…but just tugs at your heart strings…I still cry after seeing it probably a dozen times.

by swiss mcgee on Jul 14, 2008 3:25 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Field of Dreams is literally the worst movie ever made

Scientifically, it has been proven that that movie was the turning point for When It All Went Horribly Wrong.

There is only one baseball movie worth talking about, and that is The Bad News Bears.

by mattwelch on Jul 14, 2008 5:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Buttermaker and Coors = CLASSIC

Great movie

You ever feel as if your mind had started to erode?

by PieceOfAase on Jul 14, 2008 6:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's just plain wrong.

And not in a fun/sexual way.

by shiftyeyedgoat on Jul 14, 2008 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I actually like the "From the Dugout" section of the on-line OC Register...

it has some useful inside info that shows up PRIOR to going into the paper the next day. Saves me having to fight for the sports page in the break room at the office.

by Downing Rules on Jul 14, 2008 5:48 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Don't tell me you work there too...

I see red people

by The Limey on Jul 15, 2008 12:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hell, no...

The Rotschild’s, Morgans, the Queen and the Colonel run the media…I’m not “one of them.”

by Downing Rules on Jul 15, 2008 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh

“I hate the Colonel with wee beady eyes”

“Dad, how can you hate the Colonel?”

“Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnight Smartass!”

Pain heals, Chicks dig scars, Glory lasts Forever!

by billhune on Jul 16, 2008 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

nice pickup.

by Downing Rules on Jul 16, 2008 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That Movie

has some great quotes in from Mike Myers playing the father.

Pain heals, Chicks dig scars, Glory lasts Forever!

by billhune on Jul 16, 2008 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

"Let's get PISSED!"

“We have a piper down….anybody, we have a piper down.”

by Downing Rules on Jul 16, 2008 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

"Look at the size of that boys head"

” It’s like Sputnik, it has its own weather system”

“It’s like an orange on a toothpick”

“Head, move!”

Pain heals, Chicks dig scars, Glory lasts Forever!

by billhune on Jul 16, 2008 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Stop, you'll give the poor kid a complex...

“ah he’ll cry ‘imself to sleep on huge pilla. Run along heed, go cry like a wee little girl.”

by Downing Rules on Jul 16, 2008 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

By break room you mean the toilet don't you?

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 15, 2008 9:08 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

u got it!

by Downing Rules on Jul 15, 2008 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bang the Drum Slowly

is never going to win something like this. But it touched me when I saw it and it continues to touch me today. It was also cool to see an undiscovered Robert De Niro. When I think about Author saying at the end of the movie, “from here on out, I rag nobody never,” it reminds me that kindness is way underrated.

GA GA he's the man, if he can't do it, no one can

by Moondoggy on Jul 15, 2008 8:36 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

61* was great

I liked it before I liked baseball.

http://inplaynoouts.blogspot.com/ - A blog about teams I like, written by me.

by Carl Johnson on Jul 15, 2008 9:42 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I didn't see ALL of these movies...

so I am not in a position to vote.

by Downing Rules on Jul 15, 2008 12:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Well that seems a bit

Un American.

by TheTypingFiend on Jul 17, 2008 8:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It was mentioned above but since I just saw this thread now I'll mention it here.

BAD NEWS BEARS with Walter Mathau. Hands down… no question. Nothing is more real and funny at the same time. I played with some of the characters in that movie and I was coached by some of the coaches. I mean I didn’t actually play with Tanner but there was an undersize kid with Tanner’s fire on my team.

Nothing captures the strange juxtaposition of trying to have fun while trying to be competitive at the same time.

Two sequels and a TV show plus it spawned other knock-offs like “Here come the Tigers.” Did Costner’s films have that kind of impact? And yes, the sequels and knock-offs weren’t that good except that Breaking Training did give rise to the chant LET THEM PLAY! LET THEM PLAY!

I can’t think of a sport film that I identify with more that this one.