Top 5 Baseball Movies

Well there isn't one that even compares to Bull Durham but here's mine. My favorite part of baseball was always the jokes between my teammates and I so I rate them by the fun they have together, and it has to have "Put me in Coach"
in it.

1. Bull Durham
2. Major League
3. Summer Catch
4. Little Big League
5. Rookie of the year (just b/c of Daniel Stern) LET THE BIG DOG EAT!!!

Best baseball movie EVER? No way, Bull Durham is too overrated.

Major League is the best, plain and simple.

See you at the party Richter!

How can you forget The Sandlot? Eight Men Out is flat out boring, A League of Their Own is entertaining, but has way too many cringe-worthy scenes and and an excrutiatingly mawkish last 10 minutes. For the Love of the Game is just not a very good movie, although the game scenes are well done, other than some sloppy factual errors.

You know, there are movies about baseball (Eight Men Out, Major League), movies with baseball (Bang the Drum Slowly, Field of Dreams) and some with both (Bull Durham, The Natural). I've never seen Field of Dreams by the way. Don't ask why, Costner did something to tick me off and I swore I'd never watch it. Probably something to do with Dances with Wolves (also never seen), though I can't remember exactly what now. But I'm one to respect a grudge, so that's that.

In no particular order:

1. Bad News Bears (Matthau, of course. Anybody that would even bother to watch a remake of a perfect film should be forced to watch Ed the Major League Monkey on a neverending loop).
2. Major League (Bob Uecker should be in the HOF for his Harry Doyle portrayal alone).
3. The Natural (Malmud blew it. Levinson fixed it. One of the greatest endings for any movie, ever).
4. The Sandlot
5. Bang the Drum Slowly (just barely edges Bull Durham).

Near misses: Mr. 3000, Bull Durham, Little Big League, Fever Pitch, A League of Their Own.

Worst Baseball Movies ever:

1. Cobb. What the hell was that about? Give Tommy Lee Jones the Oscar for most overacted performance of the century. I don't care if Ty Cobb really WAS like that, give the man some depth and make it interesting, even if you have to make it up.

2. The Scout. Interesting premise that devolves into the hell of a schlock pyscho thriller that resolves itself with a group hug on the roof of Yankee Stadium. Sound stupid to you? Yah. Putrid.

3. For the Love of the Game. Incoherent, the non-baseball scenes are flat and uninteresting. Maybe chucking the whole flashback storyline would have helped. On the other hand, I think it just sucked.

4. Mr. Baseball. It says a lot that Tom Selleck is far more entertaining as the arrogant faded superstar ("Last year I led this club in 9th inning doubles in the month of August!") than as the humbled and "improved" team player that he becomes. Terminally cliched and predictable.

5. Eight Men Out. Way to take an interesting story and turn it into a plodding by the numbers recounting that is as exciting as a Joe Friday police report.

1) Major League
2) Bull Durham
3) Mr. Baseball
4) A League of Their Own
5) The Sandlot

1. Field of Dreams
2. Bull Durham
3. The Sandlot
4. Bad News Bears
5. A League of Their Own

Overrated:

- "The Natural." It's a Hollywood-cliche version of the vastly superior book.
- "Major League." Fun to watch, but basically at the level of a mediocre sitcom.
- "Pride of the Yankees." One of the most overrated movies ever made. They took a guy who led a truly fascinating life and who died a very tragic death, and they basically made a fictional "movie of the week" love story around the bare bones of the real story.

if you don't consider field of dreams a baseball movie then you shouldn't consider bull durham one either. Field of Dreams is more of a father/son drama while Bull Durham is a romantic dramedy that just happens to feature baseball. They are both baseball movies in my opinion.

Here's my Top 5:
(1) The Natural
(2) Field of Dreams
(3) Pride of the Yankees
(4) For Love of the Game
(5) The Rookie

and another 5:
(6) Damn Yankees
(7) The Babe Ruth Story
(8) Fever Pitch
(9) The Stratton Story
(10) Bull Durham