Best 9 Baseball Movies
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3. Major League is available to rent, buy, or stream on Amazon. You can also stream it on several subscription services, but it’s supposed to be free on Pluto.
4. A League of Their Own is available to rent or buy from Amazon. Supposedly, it can be streamed free on Crackle. I couldn’t verify that.
Released in 1992, this comedy has more heart than many movies about guys playing baseball. Based on the true story of how women saved baseball during World War II, I never think of this as a Tom Hanks film. I think of it as a women’s ensemble movie about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) that was created in 1943.
6. The Natural released in 1984 is available in a variety of formats for rent or purchase on Amazon. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a free online streaming source.
The stellar cast includes Kim Basinger as sometimes love interest Memo Paris, Barbara Hershey as the obsessed, unstable woman Harriet Bird, Wilford Brimley as Pop Fisher, and Glenn Close as Iris Gaines. Then there are Robert Duvall, Richard Farnsworth, Robert Prosky, Michael Madsen, and Joe Don Baker.
7. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings can be rented or bought on Amazon. It’s also available for free on Tubi.
If you’ve never seen this movie, I’m sad for you. Released in 1976, it has an amazing cast with Billy Dee Williams, the great James Earl Jones, and Richard Pryor, one of the funniest stand-up comics ever.
Set in the 1930s, back in the bad old days of segregation, it’s about a group of Negro League baseball stars who didn’t let that stop them from putting together a traveling team that makes the country love them and the way they play ball. You’ll love this film. It has heart, soul, and humor.
8. The Sandlot was supposed to be a kids’ movie, but grownups embraced it—maybe because we all remembered playing baseball in someone’s yard in the summertime. It can be found for rent or sale on Amazon. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a free streaming source for this film.
9. The Battered Bastards of Baseball released in 2014 is a Netflix orginal documentary and is not available elsewhere. You can watch the trailer on YouTube.
Okay, this, technically, is not a movie, but if you’re a baseball fan, you’ll want to watch this documentary narrated by Kurt Russell. His father Bing Russell owned a baseball team. Bing Russell was an actor who played the sheriff on the old TV series Bonanza. I think baseball fans now recognize him as the man who started a minor league baseball team in Portland.
In 1973, Bing Russell started an independent minor league baseball team consisting of outcasts and misfits, and turned them into unlikely overnight success. The team was the Portland Mavericks, and what happened next is quite a remarkable story.
These are some of the best baseball films movies made in my generation. They’re keepers. I hope you watch some of them. Play ball!
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