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42 (2013, DVD released on July 16) This biographical drama depicts many events from the life of Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball’s first black player. Newcomer Chadwick Boseman makes an impressive debut as Robinson, and Harrison Ford as team executive Branch Rickey reminds us why he’s a movie star. The film relies too heavily on predictable conflict and sentimentality but it’s still a compelling, important story.
The Rookie (2000) In another true story, Dennis Quaid captivates as Jim Morris, a high school teacher and coach who renews pursuit of his dream to be a Major League pitcher. The sequences of Morris perfecting his craft both as a player and as a coach are deftly counterbalanced by the scenes of ordinary yet appealing small-town Texas life.
A League of Their Own (1992) During World War II, women were given a brief but glorious chance to play professional baseball, and they demonstrated great talent and heart in doing so. Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell lead an all-star cast in this fun, moving account of the triumphs and travails of female players being accepted as the athletes they clearly were.
Bull Durham (1988) Director Ron Shelton, himself a former ballplayer, captures all the earthy, sweaty, idealistic romance of the game of summer in this quirky, sly movie. Kevin Costner fully inhabits the scruffy character of Crash Davis, a veteran player assigned to break in (or break down) a gifted but flighty young pitcher, played by Tim Robbins, for the minor league Bulls. The terrific script’s highlight: Crash’s recitation—to the terrific Susan Sarandon’s Annie—of the things in which he believes, including the small of a woman’s back and the hanging curve ball.
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The Pride of the Yankees (1942) Gary Cooper shines as Lou Gehrig, the “Iron Horse” star of the Yankees whose life and stellar career were cut tragically short by the disease that now bears his name, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The movie feels a little hokey and stiff by contemporary standards, but I defy anyone to keep a dry eye while watching his moving retirement speech as Gehrig declares himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
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