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The Best Baseball Movies of All Time, From ‘Field of Dreams’ to ‘A League of Their Own’
As the Major League Baseball season heads towards the playoffs, Closer ranks the best baseball movies of all time, from Field of Dreams to The Bad News Bears.
And in adapting Broadway’s biggest baseball smash, this 1958 musical had plenty, as Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston and Russ Brown reprised their Tony-winning turns in this pic about a fan (Tab Hunter) who deals with the devil for his diamond dreams. Starring Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, this 1949 ode to baseball’s early days captured the spirit of the game’s anthem — reportedly the third most sung tune in the U.S. after “Happy Birthday” and “The Star-Spangled Banner.” “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” While he got the words and exploits of New York great Lou Gehrig down pat in baseball’s quintessential 1942 biopic, Gary Cooper wasn’t a natural.
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