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Year Type Summary The Ball Game: 1898 Documentary Short film depicting an 1898 baseball game between Reading Phillies and Newark Bears. Baseball and Bloomers: 1911 Short An all-girl baseball team uses two Harvard boys in disguise. Right Off the Bat: 1915 Drama A bio-pic of sorts starring professional baseball player Mike Donlin: Casey at the ...
On August 6, 2020, Amazon Video ordered a reboot series with the same title as the movie. [43] The series debuted on August 12, 2022, on Amazon. [44] The series was renewed in March 2023 for a four-episode final season, but in August 2023, Amazon announced that the second season would be scrapped due to delays caused by the WGA strike. [45]
The film stars Kevin Costner as a farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield that attracts the ghosts of baseball legends, including Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) and the Chicago Black Sox. Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, and Burt Lancaster (in his final film role) also star. The film was released on May 5, 1989.
Auto racing is the most frequent sport with 20 films on the list, including seven of the top 10 entries. Fast & Furious is the most frequent franchise with nine films, followed by Rocky with seven. [a] The most frequently represented year is 2019 with four films. † Background shading indicates films playing in the week commencing 4 October ...
For Love of the Game is a 1999 American sports drama film directed by Sam Raimi and written by Dana Stevens, based on Michael Shaara's 1991 novel of the same title.Starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston, it follows the perfect game performance of an aging star baseball pitcher as he deals with the pressures of pitching in Yankee Stadium in his final outing by calming himself with memories of ...
Million Dollar Arm is a 2014 American biographical sports drama film directed by Craig Gillespie and produced by Walt Disney Pictures from a screenplay written by Tom McCarthy. The film is based on the true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel who were discovered by sports agent J. B. Bernstein after winning a reality show ...
Box office. $5.7 million [2] Eight Men Out is a 1988 American historical sports drama film based on Eliot Asinof 's 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It was written and directed by John Sayles. The film is a dramatization of Major League Baseball 's Black Sox Scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White ...
The Pride of the Yankees. The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American sports drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan. It is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died a year before its release, at age 37, from amyotrophic lateral ...