More cold stove trivia -- MLB just rated the Top 25 baseball movies of all time. Top 10 are predictable, with most worth another look: Bull Durham, League of Their Own, Field of Dreams, Eight Men Out, The Natural, Major League... https://www.mlb.com/news/best-baseba...ime-c301609142
Personally, I'd rate The Sandlot, Bad News Bears, and The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings up there with the Kostner classics.
But by the time they reach the 20s they're pushing it, with Rookie of the Year and Angels in the Outfield. As usual on almost all of these lists, one that's nowhere to be found is Long Gone, made in 1987 for HBO. Is it because so many younger viewers have never even seen it? If you haven't, check it out on youtube and count how many ways it's "paralleled" by Bull Durham in 1988.
One of my favorite Long Gone lines is after the KKK stop the team bus and demand they give up star player Joe Louis Brown, code-named Jose Luis Brown and supposedly from Venezeula. A teammate instead suggests a caucasian player: "Let'em hang Whizner -- he's only batting .179..."
What's your favorite baseball movie? Let's go, Stogies!