Baseball Movies
Angels in the Outfield

A boy, praying for his father's return, and the California Angels, praying for a pennant, join forces and learn to believe that anything is possible
The Bad News Bears

When a lawsuit creates a little league team with players no one else wanted, Morris Buttermaker, a disreputable former minor league player who played one game in the majors agrees to coach the team using his own unique approach to sports
Bang the drum slowly

The story of two very different baseball players who learn how to be men, and to respect themselves and each other
Bottom of the 9th

Sonny Stano tries to win back his lost love and his dream of being a professional baseball player after he is released from twenty years in prison
Brockmire

A famous major league baseball announcer has an embarassing meltdown on the air when he finds out that his wife has been unfaithful to him and subsequently tries to redeem himself by calling minor league games in a small town
Bull Durham

A love triangle surrounds members of a North Carolina minor league baseball team
Damn Yankees

A Washington Senators fan sells his soul to the devil to become a great baseball player and to help his favorite team win the pennant.
Eight Men Out

After the 1919 White Sox players agree to throw the World Series to make money, sports writers investigate the team and take the scandal public
Everybody wants some!! 

A group of college baseball players navigate through their new-found freedoms and responsibilities of college life
Field of Dreams

An Iowa farmer is inspired by a voice he cannot ignore to pursue a dream and turns his cornfield into a baseball field so that some baseball legends can come and play
For Love of the Game 

At the end of a disappointing season, a legendary pitcher may be at the end of his career and relationship when he plays the game of his life
42

Depicts the early career of Jackie Robinson as he became the first African American Major League Baseball player when he was signed to the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers
How Do You Know

A professional softball player discovers she is in the middle of a love triangle after she falls for two different men
A League of their own

A washed-up ballplayer becomes coach to one of the All-American Girls Baseball league teams in 1943, and finds himself drawn back into the enthusiasm of the sport
Major League 

When a woman inherits the Cleveland Indians, she hires what she thinks will be a losing line up so she can move the team to Miami
Million dollar arm

An American sports agent and his partner travel to India where they hold a contest to find cricket players they can teach baseball to, in the hopes of making them Major League Baseball players
Moneyball

Tells how the Oakland Athletics general manager, Billy Beane, tried to use statistics to find better players without resorting to the larger budgets big-market teams were able to employ
The Natural

Roy Hobbs' boyhood dream of being a baseball superstar is shattered when he meets a mysterious woman, but years later, overcoming physical pain, he has a chance to lead his team to the pennant
The Phenom 

When a baseball pitcher's game turns erratic, he is sent to a sports psychologist to get to the root of his problem
Pride of the Yankees

Chronicles the life of Lou Gehrig, the legendary first-baseman who succumbed to a fatal neurodegenerative disease at the peak of his career
The Rookie

Small-time baseball coach promises his team that if they win the championships he will try out for major league baseball
Rookie of the Year

A clumsy twelve-year-old boy who was terrible at baseball becomes the Chicago Cubs' pitcher after his broken arm heals and has super-human strength
The Sandlot

New in town and wanting to fit in, Scotty joins the sandlot ball team even though he knows nothing about baseball
Sugar

A nineteen-year-old pitcher from the Dominican Republic struggles to work his way from a minor league team in Iowa to the major leagues of American baseball
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