In honor of pitchers and catchers reporting yesterday, I feel like putting on a baseball film festival in my home this weekend. I’m trying to figure out which films to screen on Saturday and Sunday, and I’ve come up with a partial list:
- Stealing Home
- It Happens Every Spring
- For Love of the Game
- Mr. 3000
- Bull Durham
- 61*
- The Sandlot
- Mr. Destiny
- Summer Catch
- Mr. Baseball
- The Natural
- Major League
- Bang the Drum Slowly
- A League of Their Own
- The Pride of the Yankees
- Field of Dreams
- Eight Men Out
- The Scout
The quintessential baseball film.
I, of course, left some movies off the list. Movies like Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch and Angels in the Outfield were cut because either I thought they were ridiculous or I just wasn’t that big of a fan of those movies enough to want to watch it again. And Fever Pitch is left off due to my lifelong hate of all things having to do with Boston-based teams. Some of these may not even make it to the party due to time constraints, but I wanted to make sure that my semi-annual homage to baseball movies is complete with the must-see films like The Natural, Bull Durham, and Major League.
What movies did I leave off?
