Comments on: You’ll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes

By: great gonzalez

great gonzalez — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:24:07 +0000

I watched Field of Dreams again recently and was surprised at how awful it is. But then again my worldview has changed pretty significantly since I first saw it.

A League of Their Own is fantastic.

By: RyMac79

RyMac79 — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:15:07 +0000

I’m a little younger so growing up I had a few baseball movies that I always watched

Sandlot
Angels in the Outfield
Little Big League
Rookie of the Year

By: MedicineHat

MedicineHat — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:41:19 +0000

The top 10 Sports movies of all time were rated in June 2010 by the American Film Institute. Bull Durham was the 2nd baseball movie listed at # 5. Pride of the Yankees was #3.

By: Conor

Conor — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:39:12 +0000

Wow.. Little Big League. Iâ€™m glad someone brought that up; I forgot all about that movie. Brings back memories.. probably havenâ€™t seen it in 10-15 years or so. How old is that movie, anyway?

Came out in 1994

By: MedicineHat

MedicineHat — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:34:24 +0000

Bull Durham, as with most movies, was filled with filming errors. A lot of them are listed here. Some of my favorites that I actually knew about from watching the movie a million times:

In the first game of the movie, two batters are introduced with “Now batting for the Peninsula White Sox” but they are wearing the uniform of the Hagerstown Suns.

When Annie and “Nuke” are in her kitchen during the “seduction” scene, she has stockings on in all of the close-up shots, but bare legs in the long shots.

After Nuke hits the mascot and Crash tells the nervous batter, “I don’t know where it’s gonna go – I swear to God,” Nuke throws a fastball for strike one, yet the batter is rung up for a strikeout.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:41:36 +0000

Wow.. Little Big League. I’m glad someone brought that up; I forgot all about that movie. Brings back memories.. probably haven’t seen it in 10-15 years or so. How old is that movie, anyway?

By: cellphonesdead

cellphonesdead — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:38:39 +0000

I love Field of Dreams, but the fact that the movie has Liotta batting righty when Jackson is a lefty really deters me from making it my #1.

But I wish there were some better baseball movies. I often apply Rudy to baseball, especially when Rudy’s father first goes to a ND football game and says when he comes out of the tunnel, “this is the most beautiful thing these eyes have ever seen.” I get that feeling a lot at Safeco.

By: Typical Idiot Fan

Typical Idiot Fan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:48:53 +0000

Field of Dreams and Bull Durham aren’t just good “baseball” movies, they’re just good movies period. Those two have always ranked way up there for me.

Major League, honestly, strikes me as an oddly Moneyball 2.0 / sabermetric movie. Dumpster diving for freely available talent, snatching up good veterans that had upside or at least one more good year in them, etc.

You had your strikeout pitcher (Vaughn), a groundball machine (Harris), a superior on-base guy who played amazing defense at a key position(Hayes), a strong power hitter (and international signee, Cerano), and two slick fielding defenders with decent enough bats that their overall value in runs was positive (Dorn and Taylor). Also, do you remember any bullpen arms? No? Why? Because they were all replacement parts! No “closer” to speak of, just a bunch of arms that were found in the minors or on the trash heap that could get one to three outs when needed. In fact, the team with the “closer” (New York) lost! Even if you assume the rest of the team is replacement level, you have several positive marginal win players putting the team over.

USSM had an article once about Bugs Bunny, I’d like to see a couple where they analyze these “teams” in movies.

By: msb

msb — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:40:12 +0000

hmm. or Nuke & Annie aren't married in the sequel.

By: msb

msb — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:35:27 +0000

every one knows Fever pitch is a football movie.