Top Ten Baseball Movies (Comedy)

Time to do the best baseball comedies of all time (in my opinion of course). Feel free to disagree and let your feeling be known with a comment. Here we go...

10. It Happens Every Spring - This one is for Hersh. I was struggling to come up with a tenth, and he suggested this one. I have not seen it, but I trust his opinion. If he says it's funny, I'm sure it is. Now on to my picks of movies I've actually seen.

9. The Sandlot - Yes, a family film, but watching this movie reminded me of getting all the guys in my own home town together to play baseball every day in the summer. Complete with nasty, snarling dog on the other side of the fence when we hit homers. Some of the most fun I ever had was playing backyard baseball in the summer.

Top Ten Baseball Movies (Drama)

There have been a number of great baseball movies made in the form of both fiction and biographies. When compiling my list, I felt the need to separate dramas from comedies. The dramas are listed here with comedies to follow at a later date.

10. Bang The Drum Slowly - It's been quite a while since I've seen this and admittedly, I don't remember a whole lot about the movie except that DeNiro was a bit of a simpleton and was dying.

9. For Love Of The Game - Costner revisits key moments in his life while pitching a no hitter. A lot of people thought it was hokey, but I enjoyed it. John C. Reilly and JK Simons round out a good cast.

8. The Babe - Not a terrific movie, but there was something about John Goodman's portrayal that I liked. It seemed to exaggerate things a bit and really highlighted the faults of Ruth.

7. The Natural - Fictional story of Roy Hobbs, the mysterious man who comes from nowhere to achieve greatness. I didn't like this movie as much as some, but recognize its place among the great baseball dramas. Some may have this higher on the list.