To honor the film and the genre, not to mention the start of a new MLB season at the end of the month, here is a ranked list ...

Two contemporary films reimagined the stories we tell about the sport.

After a long day at a game, it's nice to go home and relax in front of a movie, and some of our favorites are, unsurprisingly, about baseball. In honor of the 2025 Cactus League season ...

Lund fills in the gaps between innings with quotes from baseball legends including Rickey Henderson, Babe Ruth and Yogi Berra ...

“It’s certainly one of the more ridiculous movies on the list,” he acknowledges. “But baseball is also about obsessive fandom. And with De Niro in ‘The Fan’ and Susan Sarandon in ...

Which is not a bad description of “Eephus,” a tiny but nearly perfect baseball movie that ambles into area theaters this weekend. Some diamond classics swing for the fences: “Bull Durham ...

Al Schacht and Max Patkin were only two of the better-known physical comedians. Baseball movies are funnier and arguably better than basketball and football movies — to wit, Major League ...

Baseball movies are so often engineered for big-game glory moments, they’ve forgotten the part that’s like an afternoon game of catch. (Something “Bull Durham” filmmaker Ron Shelton got ...

Except to chase a foul ball or two, the movie stays within the lines of Soldier Field, the nondescript Massachusetts baseball field they’re playing on sometime in the 1990s. It spans nine ...

Note, I did not say “if you love baseball movies.” I said baseball itself. Because this film is basically a complete baseball game. All nine innings are played, and the film’s leisurely pace ...

Lund says he never much cared for baseball movies. All of them, he thinks, lack the rhythms of the game because, as with a pitch clock, they are “ultimately subservient to the demands of ...