Moneyball (2011), 42 (2013), The Kid From Left Field (1953), It Happened in Flatbush (1942), Alibi Ike (1935), Bad News Bears (2005), Major League II (1994), They Learned About Women (1930) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Baseball Manager movies.
Storyline: Oakland A's GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team.
Plot Keywords: baseball manager, baseball player, baseball scout, executive, inspiring, amusing, oakland, calif. ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1946, Jackie Robinson is a Negro League baseball player who never takes racism lying down. Branch Rickey is a Major League team executive with a bold idea. To that end, Rickey recruits Robinson to break the unspoken color line as the first modern African American Major League player. As both anticipate, this proves a major challenge for Robinson and his family as they endure unrelenting racist hostility on and off the field, from player and fan alike. As Jackie struggles against his nature to endure such abuse without complaint, he finds allies and hope where he least expects it.
Plot Keywords: baseball catcher, baseball manager, critic, baseball fan, family member, baseball player, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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. With his dad's help, Christie begins to make a few suggestions here and there. And 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.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: baseball player, baseball manager, baseball coach, father, secretary, fiancé, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A washed up baseball player (Lloyd Nolan) returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but ends up clashing with the beautiful new owner (Carole Landis)
Plot Keywords: baseball manager, baseball pitcher, talent scout, sportswriter, team owner, love interest, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rookie pitcher Francis "Ike" Farrell comes seemingly out of nowhere to help the Cubs go for the pennant. His idiosyncratic ways, which include excuses and alibis for everything, drive his manager and fiancee crazy in this baseball farce.—Jerry Milani <jerry@newyorkcity.com>
Plot Keywords: pitcher, fiancée, baseball manager, baseball player, gambler, wife, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To scrape up some extra cash, the semi-inebriated, cigar-smoking, former minor-league pitcher and now professional exterminator, Morris Buttermaker, agrees to coach the inept little-league baseball team of young misfits, the Bears. Against the backdrop of a tough championship and an intense rivalry with the impeccable Yankees, Coach Buttermaker goes as far as to recruit Amanda Whurlitzer, the twelve-year-old daughter of one of his ex-girlfriends and star pitcher, and the troubled bike-riding baseball hitter, Kelly Leak. Under those circumstances, do Morris' uncoordinated boys have what it takes to start winning? Did the maladroit Bears bite off more than they could chew?
Plot Keywords: alcoholic, baseball player, baseball manager, ex-girlfriend, lawyer, child, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Those Cleveland Indians are at it again! After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Indians are determined to make it into the World Series this time! First, though, they have to contend with Rachel Phelps again when she buys back the team. Also, has Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn lost his edge? Are Jake's knees strong enough to make it as a catcher another year? These and other questions are answered as the Indians recapture the magic and win the championship "their way".
Plot Keywords: pitcher, baseball team owner, baseball manager, fan, ex-girlfriend, star player, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has worked her way into his confidence. When Mary sees Jack and Daisy together, she leaves Jack and Jack marries Daisy the next day. When Daisy decides that she wants into the Vaudeville act, she has Jack dump both Jerry and his baseball contract. But Jack soon finds that - no act - means no money - means no Daisy.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: baseball player, vaudevillian, best friend, gold digger, baseball manager, fiancée, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Milwaukee Brewers player Stan Ross (Bernie Mac) angers his teammates by retiring during a 1995 playoff game after making the 3,000th base hit required to enter the Baseball Hall of Fame. Nine years later, a clerical error is discovered, invalidating three of the hits and keeping Ross from the ultimate baseball honor. The 47-year-old player convinces the Brewers to let him rejoin the team to make his last three hits, and sheds his selfish nature as he rediscovers his love of the game.
Plot Keywords: baseball player, teammate, sports reporter, baseball manager, friend, moving, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Stan Ross was a baseball superstar who turned his back on the game years ago when he finally hit 3,000 hits. Years later, he's now a successful, self-made entrepreneur whose many businesses revolve around his title: Mr. 3000. But a clerical error has proven that Stan is just short three hits of his spectacular hit record. Now, with time on his side and the potential to be inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Stan must return back to the game and get back his title. But things have changed with age, and as Stan finds out, it's not too easy to get back into the game when he hasn't played for years, and he's nearing 50.
Plot Keywords: baseball player, teammate, sports reporter, baseball manager, friend, moving, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Minor league pitcher Gus Cantrell (Scott Bakula) is about to be put out to pasture when he is given the opportunity to do the next best thing: manage the South Carolina Buzz. The ailing baseball team is full of terrible players, but owner Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen) is banking on Cantrell to make a top-notch franchise out of them. While trying to work miracles on the wacky lineup, Cantrell butts heads with the uppity manager of the Minnesota Twins, resolving their conflict on the field.
Plot Keywords: baseball catcher, baseball player, baseball manager, baseball team owner, girlfriend, amusing, campy ...
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