By Jordan Mintzer Baseball movies are more than a mere subgenre of sports movies; they’re a whole genre unto themselves. With nearly 200 feature-length titles, both fiction and documentary ...
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And if baseball and America are intertwined, then the history of baseball is also in many ways the history of movies. The game’s surge in popularity in the 1920s coincided with the rise of the film ...
Two contemporary films reimagined the stories we tell about the sport.
Co-writer and director Carson Lund, working from a script he wrote along with Nate Fisher and Michael Basta, goes out of his way to avoid sports movie cliches. There's no lights out home run (a la ...