Greatest Baseball Movies of All Time

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Greatest Baseball Movies of All Time

December 11, 2016

If I could have gotten my hnds on an unlimited suppy of that wood-repellent subastance that awed my 11-year old brain in 1949, I'd be writing you today as a living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

If I could have gotten my hands on an unlimited supply of that wood-repellent substance that awed my 11-year old brain in this 1949 baseball classic, I’d be writing you today as a living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

How many times have I regaled the joy of great baseball movies in print? I don’t know. If I’ve done so at all, it hasn’t been recently, even though I do it all the time in places like traffic jams, jury selection internment, and waiting-on-the-phone with system robots as I earnestly try to reach a flesh and blood person to help me handle some kind of purchase, payment, or insurance problem.

The next time you hook up with a conversational robot – the kind that wants you to express a programmed word that will allow them to dump you off with “pay attention to the next numerical options and try to match it with your needs for information” – and tell the robot something like “why don’t you just go sit wide on top of a telephone pole somewhere and let me speak to a real frickin’ person?”

Do that – and you will get a follow up response from the robot that goes something like this: “I’m sorry. I didn’t quite understand. Could you please try again, using different words?”

That’s when you tell the robot the same thing you first said – in a slightly elevated and angrier tone of voice.

It will get you this kind of response: “Please hold while I put you in line to speak with one of our agents.”

Then comes the all the time in the world you then will have to list your favorite baseball films – or maybe even write a screenplay for a new one – as you wait on the human agent.

One more thing – “greatest” baseball films as a descriptor of my list doesn’t imply that these movies are Academy Award worthy for their story lines or acting performances. It simply means that they each made a really big impression on me and that I found them very entertaining at the time I first saw them. And, since I was impressed a little differently as a kid, I have to give you two lists – one for the movies I first saw and loved as a kid – and another for those films I first saw as an adult.

Here are my choices – and I’d love to hear yours:

My Top 10 Baseball Movies as a Kid