Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), Sugar (2008), The Stratton Story (1949), Angels in the Outfield (1951), The Battery (2012), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), Moneyball (2011), The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Baseball Player movies.
Storyline: Despite being key players for the Wolves, baseball players Dennis Ryan (Frank Sinatra) and Eddie O'Brien (Gene Kelly) harbor a passion for vaudeville. When a local gambler (Edward Arnold) puts a lot of money on the Wolves to lose a big game, he tries to win the bet by offering Eddie the lead role in a newly produced show. Though Eddie is tempted to accept, he risks incurring the wrath of both Dennis and the team's owner (Esther Williams), who just happens to be his girlfriend.
Plot Keywords: baseball team owner, baseball player, entertainer, gambler, teammate, girlfriend, cheery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Like many young men in the Dominican Republic, 19-year-old Miguel "Sugar" Santos (Algenis Perez Soto) dreams of winning a slot on an American baseball team. Indeed, his talents as a pitcher eventually land him a slot on a single-A team in Iowa, but culture shock, racism and other curveballs threaten to turn Sugar's dream sour.
Plot Keywords: coach, baseball player, baseball pitcher, farmer, mother, friend, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Inspired by his wife (June Allyson) and son, Chicago White Soxer Monty Stratton (James Stewart) pitches with an artificial leg.
Plot Keywords: pitcher, wife, mother, baseball player, inspiring, touching, texas ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A newspaper reporter, Jennifer Paige (Janet Leigh), is investigating the Pittsburgh Pirates' losing streak. The team is led by manager Guffy McGovern (Paul Douglas), whose swearing and fighting hinder his team's progress. Meanwhile, an orphan named Bridget White (Donna Corcoran) has been praying for the team, and her pleas are answered by an angelic voice. The angel begins urging Guffy to be kinder in return for helping the Pirates win, but the playoffs test the manager's temper.
Plot Keywords: angel, manager, reporter, orphan, baseball player, inspiring, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Part shaman, part robot maker, part satirist, part artist, part musician and all round self proclaimed 'silly bugger', and having worked with Lenny Bruce, the Beatles and Spike Milligan amongst many, many others, Bruce Lacey is something of a 'missing link' in the story of British alternative culture, and at 85 is very much still creating art and performances in a quiet english village near Norwich. Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller and frequent collaborator Nick Abrahams attempt to provide a brief introduction to this visionary artist.—anonymous
Plot Keywords: baseball player, zombie, adam, spirited, new england, wasteland, undead ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his childhood in New York until his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech at his farewell day in 1939.—Jerry Milani <jmilani@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: lou gehrig, babe ruth, baseball player, wife, reporter, emotional, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!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: The story of Baseball Hall-of-Famer Hank Greenberg is told through archival film footage and interviews with Jewish and non-Jewish fans, his former teammates, his friends, and his family. As a great first baseman with the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg endured antisemitism and became a hero and source of inspiration throughout the Jewish community, not incidentally leading the Tigers to Major League dominance in the 1930s.—George S. Davis <mgeorges@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: baseball fan, baseball player, jew, friend, rival, inspiring, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field.
Plot Keywords: farmer, baseball player, author, ghost, wife, creative, heartwarming ...
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: An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. With the aid of a bat cut from a lightning struck tree, Hobbs lives the fame he should have had earlier when, as a rising pitcher, he is inexplicably shot by a young woman.
Plot Keywords: baseball player, manager, owner, reporter, former lover, femme fatale, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: First of a trilogy of films takes an unflinching look at the underbelly of little league baseball in Southern California. Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of disheveled misfits who have virtually no baseball talent. Realizing his dilemma, Coach Buttermaker brings aboard girl pitching ace Amanda Whurlizer, the daughter of a former girlfriend, and Kelly Leak, a motorcycle punk who happens to be the best player around. Brimming with confidence, the Bears look to sweep into the championship game and avenge an earlier loss to their nemesis, the Yankees.
Plot Keywords: coach, baseball player, son, father, adversary, manager, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During World War II when all the men are fighting the war, most of the jobs that were left vacant because of their absence were filled in by women. The owners of the baseball teams, not wanting baseball to be dormant indefinitely, decide to form teams with women. So scouts are sent all over the country to find women players. One of the scouts, passes through Oregon and finds a woman named Dottie Hinson, who is incredible. He approaches her and asks her to try out but she's not interested. However, her sister, Kit who wants to get out of Oregon, offers to go. But he agrees only if she can get her sister to go. When they try out, they're chosen and are on the same team. Jimmy Dugan, a former player, who's now a drunk, is the team manager. But he doesn't feel as if it's a real job so he drinks and is not exactly doing his job. So Dottie steps up. After a few months when it appears the girls are not garnering any attention, the league is facing closure till Dottie does something that ...
Plot Keywords: baseball catcher, baseball pitcher, baseball player, baseball team owner, baseball fan, coach, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When American military analyst, Daniel Ellsberg, realizes to his disgust the depths of the US government's deceptions about the futility of the Vietnam War, he takes action by copying top-secret documents that would become the Pentagon Papers. Later, Washington Post owner, Kay Graham, is still adjusting to taking over her late husband's business when editor Ben Bradlee discovers the New York Times has scooped them with an explosive expose on those papers. Determined to compete, Post reporters find Ellsberg himself and a complete copy of those papers. However, the Post's plans to publish their findings are put in jeopardy with a Federal restraining order that could get them all indicted for Contempt. Now, Kay Graham must decide whether to back down for the safety of her paper or publish and fight for the Freedom of the Press. In doing so, Graham and her staff join a fight that would have America's democratic ideals in the balance.
Plot Keywords: publisher, editor, richard nixon, writer, soldier, board member, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rachel Phelps is the new owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. However, her plans for the team are rather nefarious. She wants to move the team to Miami for the warmer climate and a new stadium. To justify the move, the team has to lose, and lose badly. So she assembles the worst possible team she can. Among these are a past-his-prime catcher with bad knees, a shrewd but past-his-prime pitcher, a young tearaway pitcher (and felon) with a 100 mph fastball but absolutely no control, a third baseman who is too wealthy and precious to dive, a voodoo-loving slugger who can't hit a curve ball and an energetic-but-naive lead off hitter and base-stealer who can't keep the ball on the ground. Against the odds, and after the inevitable initial failures, they iron out some of their faults and start to win, much to Ms Phelps' consternation.
Plot Keywords: coach, ex-convict, ex-girlfriend, baseball player, baseball team owner, rival, brash ...
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