12 Best Baseball Movies of All Time

In Major League, a Cleveland baseball team owner assembles an intentionally horrible squad so she can have an excuse to move to Miami. But when the team finds out, they start winningthanks to the leadership of Manager Lou Brown and Ricky Vaughn (Charlie Sheen), who can finally see after picking up a pair of glasses.

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Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (2002)

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Major League (1989)

Baseball player, Baseball uniform, Sports uniform, College baseball, Baseball, Bat-and-ball games, Baseball equipment, Sports, Team sport, Baseball field, Mirage

In Major League, a Cleveland baseball team owner assembles an intentionally horrible squad so she can have an excuse to move to Miami. But when the team finds out, they start winning—thanks to the leadership of Manager Lou Brown and Ricky Vaughn (Charlie Sheen), who can finally see after picking up a pair of glasses. Antics ensue.

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Angels in the Outfield (1994)

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Is a pre-pubescent Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the sight of Christopher Lloyd with wings not enough reason to get you to watch Angels in the Outfield? Well, just know that this film about literal angels coming down from heaven to help a baseball team clinch its division title is undoubtedly worthy of standing alongside (or at least nearby) the other supernatural baseball movie that can make you cry.

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Eight Men Out (1988)

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In 1919, indignant members of the Chicago White Sox—including John Cusack and Charlie Sheen in his first baseball movie—conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the World Series. Based on one of the biggest scandals in baseball history, it's an engrossing film for obsessives of sports history.

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The Bad News Bears (1976)

People, Eye, Social group, Sitting, Comfort, Cap, Hat, Interaction, Headgear, Sharing, Paramount

Walter Matthau is a drunk, washed-up minor-league baseball player who's hired to coach the Bears—the worst Little League team in Southern California. The Bad News Bears inspired two sequels a TV series, a 2005 remake, and all the baseball jokes your dad is still using today.

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42 (2013)

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In his first leading role, Chadwick Boseman starred as Jackie Robinson in a biopic that chronicles the baseball icon's transcendent battle to break the racial barrier. Boseman proved to be a stunning fit to portray the heroism and reserve Robinson needed to fight crushing hatred.

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Field of Dreams (1989)

Sport venue, Baseball field, Baseball equipment, Baseball positions, Baseball player, Bat-and-ball games, Baseball glove, College baseball, Baseball, Baseball park, Universal Pictures

Just one year after Bull Durham, Kevin Costner returned to the diamond (a DIY one this time) as an Iowa farmer who hears a voice in his corn field that says, "If you build it, he will come." It's an iconic line that begins an unforgettable journey—one that truly captures the spiritual nature of the game and its legacy.

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A League of Their Own (1992)

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Based on the real All-American Girls Professional Baseball League—which supplemented the MLB during WWII—this Penny Marshall-directed film stars Geena Davis, Rosie O'Donnell, and Madonna as members of the Rockford Peaches. The all-star cast is complete with Tom Hanks as the washed-up club manager Jimmy Dugan, who has the iconic line, "There's no crying in baseball."

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The Natural (1984)

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In The Natural, Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, the talented young player who carries the struggling New York Knights to victory. It has one of the most iconic final at-bats in baseball movie history—a home run that destroys the lights, with Hobbs running the bases in a shower of sparks. (In the book The Natural is based on, Hobbs actually strikes out in the end.)

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The Sandlot (1993)

People, Social group, Youth, Community, Event, Team, Fun, Tree, Family, Leisure, 20th Century Fox

It's the movie that changed pickup baseball forever and captured young millennials' dreams of backyard glory—and beyond. Scottie Smalls moves to a new neighborhood, where he learns the ways of baseball from his new friends when he's forced to retrieve his father's Babe Ruth-signed baseball from the clutches of "The Beast" next door.

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2

Moneyball (2011)

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Based on Michael Lewis's nonfiction book of the same name, Moneyball is a baseball movie with surprisingly little baseball. Instead, the Aaron Sorkin-written script somehow makes behind-the-scenes baseball management exciting. Plus, Moneyball details a new era of the game driven by sabermetrics—with a true underdog story to boot.

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Bull Durham (1988)

Baseball player, Baseball uniform, College baseball, Sport venue, Sports uniform, Team sport, Sports, Baseball field, Bat-and-ball games, Baseball, MGM

In his first of four baseball movies, Kevin Costner is Crash Davis, a veteran minor league catcher sent down to the single-A Durham Bulls to mentor Tim Robbins as hotshot pitcher Nuke. It's a clash of egos that grows even more complex when we meet Susan Sarandon's Annie—a follower of the Church of Baseball, who finds herself in a love triangle with Nuke and Crash.

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