Written by Hank SteinbergDirected y Billy Crystal New York fans are brutal, there’s just no two ways about it. Through the years I’ve seen great players broken by a combination of the […]
DVD Review: 1986 World Series New York Mets Collector’s Edition – Simply Amazin’
It’s now been thirty five years since what I could honestly say was the most memorable summer and fall of my life. There are several reasons why I say that, but one […]
Movie Review: Pride of the Yankees – A Baseball Fairy-Tale Based on a Real Story
Written by Paul Gallico, Jo Swerling, and Herman J. MankiewiczDirected by Sam Wood Throughout the years of baseball, many of the heroes of the era have had their images torn down and […]
Movie Review: Eight Men Out – The Best Baseball Film Ever
Written by Eliot Asinof and John SaylesDirected by John Sayles The game of baseball back around 1919 was quite a bit different from the game we know now. There were the aesthetic […]
Movie Review: The Natural – Every Man Has a Weakness
Written by Roger Towne, Phil Dusenberry, and Bernard MalamudDirected by Barry Levinson Ah yes, it’s that time of year when hope springs eternal: spring training. What better way to get myself motivated […]
Movie Review: A League of Their Own – There’s No Crying In Baseball…..
Written by Kim Wilson, Kelly Candaele, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo MandelDirected by Penny Marshall Having watched movies such as Far From Heaven and Mona Lisa Smile lately, it was very refreshing to […]
Movie Review: For Love of the Game – December is a Great Time for a Baseball Movie!
Written by Michael Shaara and Dana StevensDirected by Sam Raimi I’ve been a baseball fan all my life, and a diehard Mets fan all that time. There are few films about baseball […]
DVD Review: Ken Burns’ Baseball – We Need a Few More Volumes Now
It’s been a tradition in my house that every year as spring training begins, I break out the Ken Burns documentary, Baseball. I owned it on VHS, then on DVD. Now it’s […]
A Review of the Movie Bull Durham
Written by Ron SheltonDirected by Ron Shelton I don’t know of anyone who has a true love of baseball that doesn’t love this movie. In my opinion, it’s the best movie ever […]
Life, Death, Murder, Intrigue and The Mets! – A Review of the Movie Frequency
Written by Toby EmmerichDirected by Gregory Hoblit I’ve been a Mets fan my whole life. When they won the World Series in 1986, the company I was working for at the time […]
