Category:Movies

This category is for feature films and documentaries about baseball. The category also includes made-for-television movies and television fiction series centered on baseball.

Further Reading[edit]

• Ron Backer: "The Pittsburgh Pirates Go to the Movies", in Cecilia M. Tan, ed.: Steel City Stories, The National Pastime, SABR, 2018, pp. 70-74.
• Ron Backer: "Baseball and the Great Movie Comedians", in Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Volume 48 Number 2, Fall 2019, pp. 83-90.
• Michael Clair: "These are 7 of the weirdest baseball movies you will ever see: Step aside, Bull Durham", mlb.com, February 14, 2022. [1]
• Rob Edelman: "There's No Crying in Baseball: Balls, Bats and Women in Baseball Movies", in Jean Hastings Ardell and Andy McCue, ed.: Endless Seasons: Baseball in Southern California, The National Pastime, SABR, Number 41, 2011, pp. 66-68.
• Rob Edelman: "More Baseball in Non-Baseball Films", The Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Vol. 44, Number 1 (Spring 2015), pp. 76-82.
• Rob Edelman and Bill Nowlin, eds.: From Spring Training to Screen Test: Baseball Players Turned Actors, SABR, Phoenix, AZ, 2018. ISBN 978-1-943816-71-2
• Alyson Footer: "Which baseball movie has the greatest Hollywood ending?", mlb.com, January 18, 2022. [2]
• Alyson Footer: "Let the kids play! Baseball's best kids movies", mlb.com, January 26, 2022. [3]
• Jeff Katz: "Everybody's a Star: The Dodgers Go Hollywood", in Jean Hastings Ardell and Andy McCue, ed.: Endless Seasons: Baseball in Southern California, The National Pastime, SABR, Number 41, 2011, pp. 74-76.
• Jeff Katz: Plié Ball! Baseball Meets Dance on Stage and Screen, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2016. ISBN 978-0-7864-6406-7
• David Krell: "Fact vs. Fiction: An Analysis of Baseball in Films", The Baseball Research Journal, Vol. 43, number 2, Fall 2014, pp. 42-45.
• Will Leitch: "These are the 25 best baseball movies", mlb.com, December 19, 2018. [4]
• Marshall G. Most and Robert Rudd: Stars, Stripes and Diamonds: American Culture and the Baseball Film, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7864-2518-1
• Stephen C. Wood and J. David Pincus, eds.: Reel Baseball: Essays and Interviews on the National Pastime, Hollywood and American Culture, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7864-1389-8

Related Sites[edit]

• Reel Baseball - List of Movies