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 ...
The answer was Moneyball, a film that balances bold, new ideas on old, familiar tropes. Moneyball chronicles a revolution in baseball front office strategy that mirrored similar changes happening ...
As an old guy, I play a lot of old-guy sports ... of any sport—will feel warm affection for the ambling, amiable baseball movie Eephus, the debut feature from writer-director Carson Lund.
The old film studios had house styles ... farewell game with all the sentiment and ceremony it demands. In most baseball movies, the sport is just a part of some bigger drama off the field ...