fav. baseball movie

#27
#27
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Nothing will ever top Little Big League to me.

Lotta good ones, though. Would like to see Moneyball in a more nerd and less hollywood version, but that's a lot to ask.
 
#28
#28
The Sandlot

I had a group of friends that spent all day, every day playing baseball in the summer. Kids don't do that enough anymore.
 
#36
#36
Dbake005 said:
Lotta good ones, though. Would like to see Moneyball in a more nerd and less hollywood version, but that's a lot to ask.
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Agreed, I would love to see a documentary version of Moneyball.

It's funny, Mark Shapiro talked at OU yesterday and he said Beane was never in his office, Paul DePoDesta was gone before he was GM and there was only one team interested in Rincon.

He had to sign off on the script and was like, what's there to approve, this is fiction, lol.
 
#39
#39
#1ArencibiaFan said:
Agreed, I would love to see a documentary version of Moneyball.

It's funny, Mark Shapiro talked at OU yesterday and he said Beane was never in his office, Paul DePoDesta was gone before he was GM and there was only one team interested in Rincon.

He had to sign off on the script and was like, what's there to approve, this is fiction, lol.
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The movie has some drastic differences from the book, which itself was quite a stretch. Sandy Alderson deserves way more, if not most, of the credit for not only the success of the A's around the turn of the century, but the whole sabermetric movement the A's made. Beane drafted three All-American pitchers from the college ranks and paired them with Miggy, Jason Giambi and Eric Chavez, who were all drafted by Alderson. Throw in the pickups of a young and upcoming Johnny Damon and Jermaine Dye and boom, you have a successful baseball team. Beane has done squat since. Now he's even admitting he needs to spend money to make the team successful, but he's not going to do that until he gets a new stadium approved in San Jose.
 
#40
#40
as for my answers:
(in a class all their own)
1. Bull Durham
2. Major League


(the rest)
3. The Sandlot
4. Field of Dreams (surprised it's not getting more mention)
5. Major League II
6. The Natural
 
#46
#46
TennesseeFan07 said:
Major League, and it's not even close.
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Yeah, not even close.

Sandlot is good. Eight Men Out is good. Never really liked Bull Durham or The Natural. BD is cool cause you see life in the minors, but Tim Robbins baseball skills were so bad I almost couldn't stand the movie.
 
#47
#47
Bad News Bears with Billy Bob is hilarious. Its not even Kevin Costner's best baseball movie, but For Love of the Game is a great movie to watch with a female. There's enough baseball to satisfy me, and enough sappy crap for my wife. I wish there were more movies that are tolerable for both sexes.
 
#49
#49
nbakerld said:
Bad News Bears is legend.
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the original starring Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neil is much better than the BBT remake

it's cool to realize that the kid who originally played Kelly Leak went on to play Rorschach in "Watchmen"
 
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#50
#50
MG1968 said:
the original starring Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neil is much better than the BBT remake

it's cool to realize that the kid who originally played Kelly Leak went on to play Rorschach in "Watchmen"
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No question. And Rorschach FTW!

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