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 ...

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 ...

One film genre that never fails to impress on a family movie night? Sports movies. More particularly, sports movies that find youths at the center of the action. Whether the kids are competing ...

Except to chase a foul ball or two, the movie stays within the lines of Soldier Field, the nondescript Massachusetts baseball field they’re playing on sometime in the 1990s. It spans nine ...

By Robert Daniels From “Eight Men Out” to “Field of Dreams,” baseball movies are usually enraptured by the past. Steeped in traditions, these films celebrate homespun heroes whose anything ...

In "Eephus," a group of middle-aged men gather to play one last game on their hometown baseball field before it's paved to make way for a new school. And that's it. There's nothing fancy about ...

Except to chase a foul ball or two, the movie stays within the lines of Soldier Field, the nondescript Massachusetts baseball field they’re playing on sometime in the 1990s. It spans nine ...