# Rank Your Favorite Baseball Movies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-baseball-movies/488019>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 2, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-baseball-movies/488019 "2009-03-02T16:09:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-baseball-movies/488019/41 "2009-03-04T15:29:45Z")

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1. _Bull Durham_
2. _Field of Dreams_
3. _The Natural_
4. _A League of Their Own_
5. _Little Big League_ (I can’t believe I’m the first person to mention this one)
6. _The Bad News Bears_ (original)
7. _Fever Pitch_
8. _The Rookie_  
9-9,999. Any other film in which the word “baseball” is used, regardless of its subject.  
10,000. _For Love of the Game_

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-baseball-movies/488019/42 "2009-03-04T15:34:01Z")

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> [@KneadToKnow](#):
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> 1. _Bull Durham_  
> \<snip\>  
> 10,000. _For Love of the Game_

So if you get a copy of _For Love of the Game_ as a gift, you’re going to harm the person who thought it was “just the thing” for you?

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-baseball-movies/488019/43 "2009-03-04T16:17:21Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> So if you get a copy of _For Love of the Game_ as a gift, you’re going to harm the person who thought it was “just the thing” for you?

Harm them? No. But I will probably have a long talk about them to try to find out what it was that caused them to have such a low opinion of me.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-baseball-movies/488019/44 "2009-04-03T19:37:32Z")

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[Here](http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/04/03/sugar/index.html)’s a critic calling the newly-released _ **Sugar** _ the best baseball movie ever.

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