From classic underdog tales to historical dramas, these 10 baseball films will get you in the game day spirit.

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 ...

“Eephus” belongs with the great baseball movies not because of any major league ambitions ... He and his colleagues infuse ...

Carson Lund's baseball comedy distills the mundane pleasures and casual heartbreak of sport ...

Lund fills in the gaps between innings with quotes from baseball legends including Rickey Henderson, Babe Ruth and Yogi Berra ...

True, Muhammad Ali’s verbal jousts with “Humble Howard” were classic, and Mike Tyson can ... of the better-known physical comedians. Baseball movies are funnier and arguably better than ...

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 ...

Baseball movies are so often engineered for big-game glory moments, they’ve forgotten the part that’s like an afternoon game of catch. (Something “Bull Durham” filmmaker Ron Shelton got ...

The movie, set in the 1990s in Massachusetts ... The characters in the film exemplify classic baseball player archetypes, almost cartoonish depictions of the type of players one would find ...

“Eephus” belongs with the great baseball movies not because of any major league ... He and his colleagues infuse classic American themes with an elusive poetry more common to international ...