With Carson Lund’s ‘Eephus’ — about the final game in an amateur league of aging players — hitting the big screen, a THR film critic ranks 10 other movies that took viewers out to the ballgame. By ...
News of Robert Redford's death ignited a, shall we say, spirited debate among USA TODAY Sports aficionados about where the Hollywood legend's film, "The Natural", ranks in the pantheon of baseball ...
Over its 97 years, the Music Box Theatre — which opened the year the Cubs lost the 1929 World Series to the Philadelphia Athletics — has shown plenty of baseball movies, from “Pride of the Yankees” to ...
Kevin Costner's long history of baseball movies is no coincidence, as the actor has deep ties to the sport. Costner cemented himself as an iconic Western movie actor with movies like Silverado, Dances ...
In the parlance of America’s pastime, Robert Redford and “The Natural” keyed a two-out rally for baseball movies. The 1980s were a golden era for baseball cinema: “Bull Durham,” “Field of Dreams,” ...
On this episode of Edge of Sports, we speak about the joy and politics of baseball movies. Dave Zirin Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin This week, ...
Two contemporary films reimagined the stories we tell about the sport. By Robert Daniels From “Eight Men Out” to “Field of Dreams,” baseball movies are usually enraptured by the past. Steeped in ...