Written by Steven SternDirected by George Roy There are a few names in sports that manage to evoke images of an iconic American hero. With his boyish good-looks and amazing talent on […]
Movie Review: Mantle – Good But This Could Have Been Longer
Movie Review: The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings – Baseball Meets Sanford and Son
Written by William Brashler, Hal Barwood, and Matthew RobbinsDirected by John Badham There are baseball movies everyone has heard of, and then there are the sleepers. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & […]
Movie Review: The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) – Could Be, Should Be Done Better
Written by Arthur Mann and Lawrence TaylorDirected by Alfred E. Green Note: This review was written in 2007 for Epinions, which is now defunct. Most of the reviews I wrote for that […]
Movie Review: Soul of the Game – A Triple Play of Great Stars
Written by Gary Hoffman and David HimmelsteinDirected by Kevin Rodney Sullivan For those of you who think the biggest dividing line in baseball is the Designated Hitter which is the major difference […]
Movie Review: Fear Strikes Out – Lessons for Many “Sports Parents” Out There
Written by Jimmy Piersall, Ted Berkman, and Raphael BlauDirected by Robert Mulligan Today’s parents could take a few lessons from Fear Strikes Out. I’ve seen, all too often, parents who place incredible […]
Movie Review: When It Was a Game 2 – Hank Aaron Didn’t Use Steroids
Long before the days of baseball superstars, many of the players were ordinary folk like you or me. Only instead of Dad heading off to work at the factory or the office […]
Movie Review: Major League – Even the Losers Get Lucky Sometimes
Written by David S. WardDIrected by David S. Ward A trend began somewhere in the 1980s where fictional movies about baseball began using real teams as their setting, rather than also creating […]
Movie Review: Fever Pitch – A Romantic Film for Men and Women
Written by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, and Nick HornbyDirected by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly Ben lives in Boston. Ben is a baseball fan. Therefore, Ben has had a difficult life. Even […]
Movie Review: The Babe (1992) – John Goodman is Perfect but the Story Isn’t
Written by John FuscoDirected by Arthur Hiller In a perfect bit of casting, John Goodman stars as Babe Ruth in this 1992 bio-pic. The following incidents are based on true events that […]
Movie Review: When It Was a Game – Baseball Legends, Wool Uniforms & Stadiums Without Lights
When I hear people talk about the business of sports, the cynic in me wonders if there ever really was a time when it was “just a game.” Thinking about the Chicago […]
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