Sunday, July 26, 2009
Fun at the movies...what's your favorite baseball flick?
Okay, all you baseball fans out there.
What is your favorite baseball movie? It's probably not hard to figure out my top three. They're all about an aging baseball player who refuses to put his glove away and hang up his spikes...for good.
They are, in no particular order: The Natural (released in 1984), The Rookie (2002) and For the Love of the Game (1999).
Now, The Natural, stars Robert Redford who plays the mysterious Roy Hobbs who comes out of nowhere to join a major league team. Roy's new manager is Pop Fisher, played by Wilford Brimley, who said, after meeting the aging rookie for the first time, "Son, you don't start playing baseball at your age, you retire." And so the friendship between player and manager begins, followed by plenty of twists and turns as the movie heads for its dramatic conclusion.
On the other hand, you have The Rookie, which is a true story about thirty five year old Jimmy Morris (played by Dennis Quaid), a high school science teacher and baseball coach in west Texas, who discovers he can throw a ball faster (98 mph) and better than he did in his playing days when he was a 20-year old fighting for a roster spot in the minor leagues.
As for The Love of the Game, it's a fictional story about a baseball player (played by Kevin Costner) fighting "father time"...as he pushes his aging body, one last time, as he tries to do the hardest thing for a pitcher to do in baseball...throw a perfect game.
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Favorite Baseball Flicks; "The Final Season" (2007) and the "Rookie". The Best movies to watch are the ones which are true...M. Price
ReplyDelete"The Final Season"...another great baseball movie...great for kids... another flick from the director of "The Sandlot". The star was Sean Astin, who pulled on the heart strings a few years before in "Rudy".
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ReplyDeleteYou didn't mention my favorite baseball movie, Field of Dreams. I believe it was the first movie I ever paid twice to see at a theater. Then a few years ago as our family was returning home from Illinois we toook a short detour to Dyersville, Iowa and we played a little ball at the field in the cornfield. It was a neat day. I like your choices also. Hope this gets to you,
Mike Steele
Thanks Mike for you comments. Great movie as well...Oh, Burt Lancaster...what an actor he was.One of my top movies,too.The three I mentioned in the article dealt with athletes who were pushing the "father of time", similar to this over-60 baseball team that I'm a member of. "Field of Dreams", wow, I almost packed up and moved to Iowa after I saw it!
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