My Top 10 Baseball Movies

holy shit, Bull Durham just turned 20. man i am getting old. that got me thinking, what are the best baseball movies ever made...or at least the ones i actually liked the most. i never saw Pride of The Yankees or the Babe Ruth Story or any of those old ass movies that i could give a shit about. instead i grew up in the 80s and watched lots of 80s baseball movies. here's my top 10 list.

1. Bull Durham- smart, funny, chicks dig it. Kevin Costner totally rules. it's about minor league baseball which makes it all the more awesome.

2. Major League- Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, and Tom Berenger all give the best performances of their careers as a bunch of washed up nobodies playing for a lousy Cleveland Indians team that somehow beats the Yankees and wins the penant. sure it's just a rip off of Slap Shot, but who cares. this movie rules.

3. 8 Men Out- best serious baseball movie ever. yes better than the Natuarl. it's the story of the White Sox's team that threw the 1919 World Series.

4. The Natural- way too obvious to be number 1. this is a movie, like Hoosiers, that i liked a lot more as a kid. as i got older and more jaded it lost a lot of it's charm. still the end is one of the all time "give you chills" scenes.

5. Bad News Bears- best kids baseball movie ever.

6. The Sandlot- best kids baseball movie actually for kids.

7. Field Of Dreams- mostly it's a sentimental piece of crap. but it's also a pretty good baseball movie despite that.

8. A League Of Their Own- chicks can play too.

9. 61*- the story of the 1961 homerun chase between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle.

10. Ken Burn's Baseball- this shit is long.