DVD Diva: Baseball Movies

With baseball season in "full swing," why not check out some of our classic baseball movies? Read more about other baseball movies at BaseballMovies.com.


Field of Dreams
If you believe the impossible, the incredible can come true. Ray Kinsella hears a voice, followed by a brief vision of a baseball field. He believes that if he builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield, Shoeless Joe Jackson, of the infamous 1919 Chicago "Black" Sox will return to play baseball. By being willing to take a chance, Ray gets a second time up at bat in life.

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Pride of the Yankees
Lou Gehrig, the Yank's great first baseman and the son of poor immigrants, rose to heights of baseball fame -- only to be cut down at the peak of his career by an incurable illness known as ALS.

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The Natural
A talented but aging rookie tries to resume a baseball career many years after a shattering experience seemed to have ended it.

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Eight Men Out
Based on the real-life scandal of 1919, this film tells the story of eight baseball players who plotted to throw games for money, and the scorn and anger the scheme earned them.

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Major League
The new woman owner of the Cleveland Indians wants to move the franchise to Florida, and her only chance is a losing year. So she signs a bunch of screwballs in hopes that they'll blow the season.

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A League of Their Own
A washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war in 1943, and finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team.

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