Comments on: Attention Baseball and Movie Fans: What Is Your Favorite of all Time?

By: Miss Cleo

Miss Cleo — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:07:38 +0000

Just thought I would let you all know that Bravo is now in the making of a movie called Curveball it is a documentary of W.P. Kinsella the Canadian that wrote the book shoeless Joe which was later turned into the movie field of Dreams. They shot some of the movie in Vauxhall Alberta where the first ever year round Canadian Baseball Academy started just last year. My son was one of the pitchers that they used…

By: Aunt Ruth

Aunt Ruth — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:25:50 +0000

Thanks to Ed Sugar for sending the song info to Merrill who sent it to me. I was so excited when I got the info this I didn’t realize that. Thank you Ed!

By: Aunt Ruth

Aunt Ruth — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:56:30 +0000

Thanks to Merrill I was able to find the song. It was a recording by Edith Piaf “Non Je Ne Regrette Rien”

I downloaded it from LimeWire this morning and have listened to it 6 times so far. Am so happy it’s almost like I won a Lottery! Well, a small one anyway.

Here’s the weird part. All these years I’ve been telling people I will be on my death bed saying my regret is not being able to find that song, the title translated from French to English is “Not, I have no regrets”

Thank you all.

Aunt Ruth

By: Aunt Ruth

Aunt Ruth — Wed, 09 May 2007 05:27:29 +0000

In the movie Bull Durham, I’ve been looking for years, but have not been able to find out what the name of the song Susan S. was playing on her record player during the movie. It was just beautiful, a female singer and seemed to be in French.

Have looked everywhere I could find but just can’t get it as I don’t know the name of it and of course not the words.

If anyone could help me I will truly be forever grateful. I had just told my daughter a few days ago, “When I’m on my death bed (well not right now, but will be someday) if someone asks me if I have any regrets in life, I’ll have to say, ‘I couldn’t find that song.’

Just a little personal information here also, I have a Hot Dog stand in Coeur d’Alene Idaho at one of the oldest Baseball Stadiums in the area, Memorial Field. Just local Co-Ed games and a few out of State tournaments. It was built in the 1940’s and is still standing.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:02:07 +0000

I can’t believe nobody listed The Rookie. It was a Great movie and a true story to boot.

By: Tobey Belsky

Tobey Belsky — Tue, 01 May 2007 04:52:50 +0000

My response is actually to Ed Sugar. I’m truly impressed you mentioned Hank Greenberg as a dominating player and innovator in the field of baseball. He happens to be a relative on my husband’s side of family. You truly do know baseball of today and the “Old Timers”! My favorites are The Natural and A League of Their Own, for the pure joy of watching Tom Hanks say “There’s no crying in Baseball” A definite classic line and movie.

By: Joe Baldi

Joe Baldi — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:37:10 +0000

Bull Durham and For The Love Ff The Game are tops for me because Costner is a real ball player. Looks good throwing and hitting. Also like the supporting cast in Bull Durham.

A couple of interesting facts. The guy who plays the third base coach in the Natural, Tony Ferrara played on my team in the Men’s Senior Baseball league. He was also the BP pitcher for the Yanks and Mets.

The third base umpire Mike ? in For The Love Of The Game used to ump some of our games and the home plate ump in a League Of Their Own umpired some of our game at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown. Living proof that if you stick around long enough you’ve seen it all or at least almost all.

By: Kenyon

Kenyon — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:24:37 +0000

My favorite baseball movie is “The Natural.” There’s a line in the movie which always makes me laugh. It when Robert Redford has been shot and he’s being visited by his woman. He looks deeply into her eyes and says, “I love….baseball.”
The pause is ever so slight as we’re expecting him to tell her, “I love you.” I love Bull Durham as well.

By: Will Morris

Will Morris — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:07:28 +0000

All great movies, and very little distinguishes one above the other. Field of Dreams and Sandlot evoked great memories of being a kid and sharing the love of baseball with my father, and experiencing the purity of the game I love so much. Some of my best days were spent in the 50’s and 60’s playing workup, 500, and hotbox with the neighborhood kids for hours. We would take a break at noon to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and several glasses of Cool-aid before heading back out to our own sandlot.

For the Love of the Game and Bull Durham are classics because they both show the passion for baseball when the players had passion about baseball. Kevin Costner “gets it” and expresses in so well in his movies. Growing up I wasn’t really a Yankee fan but Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle captivated my attention as a 9 year old in the summer of ‘61. Everybody loved Mickey, as did I, but I thought Maris was something special. I watched that movie on DVD with my dad and it was an awesome experience.

The Natural was just cool. I was coaching an American Legion team of 16 year old boys when that came out. We were playing in a tournament and seeded against the #2 team in the State in the 16-18 year old league. I took my team to see The Natural the night before our game and gave them lightning bolt patches that I purchased from the Army Surplus store, which they put on their uniforms for the game. Needless to say we beat the heavily favored team 14-4 and completely overwhelmed them. By the end of the year my team was #1 in the 156 year of division. We were on the front page of the paper showing our lighting bolt patches.

By: Bob Graham

Bob Graham — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:58:59 +0000

OK, first off, one of my all-time favorites is not on the list: THE BINGO LONG TRAVELING ALL STARS AND MOTOR KINGS. Bill Dee Williams, James Earl Jones and Richard Pryor are members of a barnstorming team in the days of the Negro Leagues. It’s one of the few baseball movies that is not reverential, it’s just plain fun and the acting by the entire ensemble is superb. As a bonus, it introduced one of the best baseball songs of all time : “Slide on Home”.

I’m a big fan of BULL DURHAM (which is a “pure” baseball movie), FIELD OF DREAMS and THE NATURAL, but they all tend to be reverential (i.e. “The Church of Baseball…”), just a bit too serious about the subject, c’mon it’s a game, it’s supposed to be fun.

Also fun are DAMN YANKEES, in which a baseball fan sells his soul to the devil so the Yankees don’t win a World Series (it’s an old movie :); BASEBALL BUGS, one of the best Warner Bros cartoons ever in which Bugs Bunny squares off against the Gashouse Gorillas; and KILL THE UMPIRE in which baseball fan William Bendix becomes an umpire and is forced to see the game from a different side.

I also love two documentaries: STILL WE BELIEVE:THE BOSTON RED SOX MOVIE and it’s follow-up FAITH REWARDED.

As for the worst baseball movie there is one that is the pinnacle, the penultimate: SAFE AT HOME a quickie made to cash in on the Roger Marris/Mickie Mantle home run chase of 1961. If you think Anthony Perkins’ throwing is bad (in FEAR STRIKES OUT), you should see Mantle and Marris’ acting (or better yet, just take my word for it and skip it).