Baseball and movies have been teammates for over a hundred years. One's played with bats and gloves, the other with cameras and scripts, but both know how to tell a great story. These films reflect ...

Sports have been a favorite subject for storytellers since a primitive human first told others how much fun it was to whack a round rock with a stick. Author George Plimpton once wrote in the New York ...

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,” ...

The Pride of The Yankees: Samuel Goldwyn Productions; 42: Legendary Pictures/Kobal/Shutterstock; The Natural: Tristar Opening weekend is upon us, which means baseball ...

Probably the most authentic baseball movie ever made is also one of the most shamelessly entertaining. It is the baseball version of “Slap Shot” — profane locker room slapstick at its finest. Does it ...

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 ...

— -- Baseball's first golden age on the silver screen did not end with "A League of Their Own" in 1992. The next year brought the popular "Rookie of the Year" and "The Sandlot," while 1994 saw ...

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 ...

Baseball is a curious thing – it’s the most statistics-oriented sport I know and at the same time it’s the sport that generates the most high-falutin’ emotions. There may be more football fans in this ...