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The 18 Best Baseball Movies of All Time

By Paste Movies Staff
March 26, 2018 8:44pm



It’s been a few weeks since pitchers and catches made their annual migrations to their natural training grounds in Florida and Arizona. The full squads are now preparing for Opening Day on March 29, and there’s nothing to get you in the baseball spirit quite like that other national pastime, The Baseball Movie.

The first half of the 20th century was full of motion pictures with titles like The Pinch Hitter (1917), Life’s Greatest Game (1924) and The Bush Leaguer (1924). But it wasn’t until 1942 that Pride of the Yankees proved you could make a baseball movie and make a great film. Since Right Off the Bat in 1915, there have been some 200 baseball films produced. We contend, however, that the golden age of baseball movies was a nine-year stretch from 1984 to 1993, when fully half our picks were released.

So pop some popcorn—or better yet, buy yourself some peanuts and cracker jacks—and settle in with one of the 18 best baseball movies of all time. —Josh Jackson

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