Here Are Some Baseball Movies to Get You Through to Spring-- Part 2: "Major League"

FIELD OF DREAMS  (1989)   --  Costner was back as an Iowa farmer who plows up his cornfield to make a baseball diamond.  "Build it and they will come."  Hey, I'm a White Sox fan.

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN  (1992)--  It's easy to root for this Penny Marshall-directed rouser, featuring Geena Davis, about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.  "There's no crying in baseball!!"

THE SANDLOT  (1993)--  No film captures childhood summer nostalgia quite like this coming-of-age comedy about a group of rowdy pals in the early 1960s who play every day at a local sandlot.  I spend most of the summers between 7th and sophomore years playing out on a sandlot.

MONEYBALL  (2011)--  Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) figures out how to compete with stats as well as bats.

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MAJOR LEAGUE  (1989)   Back when baseball was still baseball and not just a money-grabbing bunch of players jumping from one team to another.  What a bunch of characters.  And, of course, the Bob Uecker.

--CootBase