Baseball is finally back… and this time for a full season (hopefully)! Since the Los Angeles Dodgers took the title months ago, we’ve been itching for America’s game, so why not keep the mania going with a baseball-themed movie or two or twelve? Even though a number of sports films have been nominated by the Motion Picture Academy, only three baseball films have actually been nominated for Best Picture — “The Pride of the Yankees” (1942), “Field of Dreams” (1989) and “Moneyball” (2011).
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Despite their lack of Oscar love, there’s a lot of entertainment in this collection of a dozen baseball movies — from kids enjoying the love of the game for the first time, to women on the mound and at the plate, from baseball history from its darkest moment (“Eight Men Out”) to its proudest (“42”) to the sheer joy of the game itself.
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Despite their lack of Oscar love, there’s a lot of entertainment in this collection of a dozen baseball movies — from kids enjoying the love of the game for the first time, to women on the mound and at the plate, from baseball history from its darkest moment (“Eight Men Out”) to its proudest (“42”) to the sheer joy of the game itself.
- 4/1/2021
- by Tom O'Brien and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
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