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1. A League of Their Own (1992)

PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amid their own growing rivalry.

Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna

Votes: 121,593 | Gross: $107.53M

2. Maximum Overdrive (1986)

R | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.

Director: Stephen King | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 36,070 | Gross: $7.43M

3. Space Jam (1996)

PG | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan.

Director: Joe Pytka | Stars: Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle, Manner Washington

Votes: 214,299 | Gross: $90.46M

4. Bull Durham (1988)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.

Director: Ron Shelton | Stars: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson

Votes: 59,629 | Gross: $50.89M

5. The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)

R | 94 min | Biography, Drama, War

Former Major League Baseball player Moe Berg goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services.

Director: Ben Lewin | Stars: Paul Rudd, Pierfrancesco Favino, Tom Wilkinson, Connie Nielsen

Votes: 11,997 | Gross: $0.71M

6. For Love of the Game (1999)

PG-13 | 137 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

After 19 years of playing the game he's loved his whole life, Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel has to decide if he's going to risk everything and put everything out there.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston, John C. Reilly, Jena Malone

Votes: 37,558 | Gross: $35.17M

7. Brewster's Millions (1985)

PG | 102 min | Comedy

A minor-league baseball player must spend $30 million in 30 days in order to inherit $300 million. However, he's not allowed to own any assets, destroy the money, gift it, give it to charity, or tell anyone about the deal.

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins

Votes: 43,246 | Gross: $38.80M

8. Summer Catch (2001)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A rich girl whose family summers on Cape Cod has a romance with a local poor boy who hopes to become a major league baseball player.

Director: Michael Tollin | Stars: Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel, Fred Ward, Matthew Lillard

Votes: 16,686 | Gross: $19.69M

9. Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Sport

A lousy minor league baseball team full of many different personalities gets a new manager, an aging minor league pitcher.

Director: John Warren | Stars: Scott Bakula, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert, Takaaki Ishibashi

Votes: 8,154 | Gross: $3.55M

10. Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)

PG | 96 min | Drama, Sport

The story of the friendship between a worldly-wise star pitcher and a half-wit catcher as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.

Director: John D. Hancock | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Vincent Gardenia, Phil Foster

Votes: 6,256 | Gross: $0.35M

11. It Ain't Over (2022)

PG | 99 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The illustrious life and career of the baseball great, Yogi Berra.

Director: Sean Mullin | Stars: Andy Andres, Roger Angell, Marty Appel, Allen Barra

Votes: 1,360

12. Undrafted (2016)

Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

When twelve ragtag teammates set out to play what should be a meaningless summer intramural baseball game, it ends up becoming the most important game of their lives.

Director: Joseph Mazzello | Stars: Tyler Hoechlin, Chace Crawford, Joseph Mazzello, Duke Davis Roberts

Votes: 1,562

13. The Bad News Bears (1979–1980)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Sport

To dodge jail, pool cleaner Buttermaker coaches misfit Little League team the Bears. With principal Rappant's help, he earns their respect and even wins some games.

Stars: Jack Warden, J. Brennan Smith, Tricia Cast, Billy Jayne

Votes: 342

14. The Happy Years (1950)

G | 110 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperdink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have... See full summary »

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Scotty Beckett, Leon Ames

Votes: 763

15. It Happens Every Spring (1949)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley

Votes: 1,902

16. Baseball Bugs (1946)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Bugs plays every defensive position against the Gashouse Gorillas.

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Frank Graham, Tedd Pierce

Votes: 2,290

17. The Catcher (1998)

Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Sport

In Taft, California, 1981, Johnny (Fred Meyers) is a unassuming baseball hopeful who turned against his stern and demanding father (Joe Estevez) and beat him to death with a baseball bat on... See full summary »

Directors: Guy Crawford, Yvette Hoffman | Stars: David Heavener, Monique Parent, Joe Estevez, Sean Dillingham

Votes: 223

18. Ferrell Takes the Field (2015 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 49 min | Documentary, Comedy, Sport

A documentary that follows Will Ferrell as he takes the field in five Major League Baseball training games, playing all nine positions for ten different teams in a single day.

Director: Brian McGinn | Stars: Will Ferrell, Robert Scheer, Sean Graham, Victor Winters-Junco

Votes: 1,209

19. Touching Home (2008)

PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Sport

The true story about a father struggling to make amends with his twin sons as they pursue their dreams of professional baseball.

Directors: Logan Miller, Noah Miller | Stars: Ed Harris, Brad Dourif, Robert Forster, Evan Jones

Votes: 795

20. BATTERY the animation (2016)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Drama, Sport

Takumi Harada is a talented baseball player. Takumi meets Go Nagakura, a catcher who can catch Takumi's fastest pitches. They join the school baseball team and grow together as a battery unit.

Stars: Kôki Uchiyama, Kaito Ishikawa, Ayumu Murase, Yûichirô Umehara

Votes: 119

21. The Unruly Hare (1945)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short

As a surveyor, Elmer Fudd is disturbing Bugs Bunny's peace. So Bugs harasses Fudd, who is also trying to get revenge.

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Tedd Pierce, The Sportsmen Quartet

Votes: 480

22. Babe Comes Home (1927)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Sport

Babe Dugan, star player of the Angels baseball team, chews tobacco and gets his uniform dirtier than any of his teammates. Vernie, the laundress who cleans his uniform every week, becomes ... See full summary »

Director: Ted Wilde | Stars: Babe Ruth, Anna Q. Nilsson, Louise Fazenda, Ethel Shannon

Votes: 26

23. Fast Company (1929)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Sport

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Directors: A. Edward Sutherland, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Jack Oakie, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Sam Hardy

Votes: 26

24. Boulevardier from the Bronx (1936)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Baseball. The Chicago Giants, led by rooster pitcher Dizzy Dan, are playing the Hicksville team. Dan arrives in Hicksville and sings the title song while eyeing local pitcher Claude's girl.... See full summary »

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Jack Carr, Melvin J. Gibby, Bernice Hansen, Tedd Pierce

Votes: 218

25. PLUM: A Baseball Life (2021)

64 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport

From the Big Red Machine to the expansion Arizona Diamondbacks, Bill Plummer has seen and done all there is in baseball. His contributions to the game are endless but little known, until now.

Director: Conor Fitzgerald | Stars: Bill Plummer, Eamon Fitzgerald, Harold Reynolds, Phil Nevin

26. Sport Chumpions (1941)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A series of unrelated sports gags. Archery: The bullseyes make sense when we see where the archer is standing. Billiards: A trick shot: All the balls move together. Ping pong: The ... See full summary »

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Jim Bannon, Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce

Votes: 289

27. The Screwball (1943)

Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A local crowd gathers at a baseball park for a game between the Droops and the Drips. A lone policeman stands at the park gate discouraging spectators who have not paid to see the game.

Director: Alex Lovy | Stars: Mel Blanc, Kent Rogers

Votes: 182

28. Hot Curves (1930)

83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

One player on a baseball team lets his ego run his life and ends up losing the girl he is dating--who happens to be the team manager's daughter. Another player on the team is a great ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Benny Rubin, Pert Kelton, Rex Lease, Alice Day

Votes: 58

29. One Run Elmer (1935)

Passed | 19 min | Short, Action, Comedy

Elmer owns a gas station out in the California desert. Soon he has a business rival in Jim, who opens up another station, and is also trying to steal Elmer's girlfriend. She plays both ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Buster Keaton, Lona Andre, Dewey Robinson, Harold Goodwin

Votes: 209

30. Long Road Home (2006)

55 min | Documentary, Drama

Long Road Home is the story of John Malangone, an East Harlem baseball player, signed by the Yankees in 1951, who had the skill and potential to be a great major league player. But ... See full summary »

Director: Bruce Spiegel

Votes: 14

31. Slide, Speedy, Slide (1931)

18 min | Short

Myrtle Brady (Daphne Pollard)is a town flirt who is stringing along three players on the local baseball team, but the star pitcher, Speedy (Tom Dugan), thinks he is her one-and-only. When ... See full summary »

Director: Babe Stafford | Stars: Daphne Pollard, Tom Dugan, Wade Boteler, Syd Saylor

32. Style of the Stars (1947)

Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Sport

Mel Allen provides the narration while stars of the golf course, the baseball diamond (where all the players wear baseball caps and none wear baseball hats since there was no such item), ... See full summary »

Directors: Tom Cummiskey, Frank Hurley | Stars: Mel Allen, Patty Berg, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams

33. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
Episode: Bang the Drum Slowly (1956)

52 min | Comedy, Drama

A pitcher on a major-league baseball team finds out that his catcher is desperately trying to hide something, he is dying of a terminal disease and he doesn't want the owner to find out and fire him.

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Paul Newman, Albert Salmi, Barbara Babcock, Rudy Bond

Votes: 177

34. The Danny Kaye Show (1963–1967)
Episode: Harry Belafonte, Nana Mouskouri (1965)

Comedy, Music

For the opener of the series' third season Danny welcomes singer Harry Belafonte and Greek singer Nana Mouskouri. Harry teaches Danny how to sing with an ethnic flavor and the two men sing ... See full summary »

Stars: Danny Kaye, Harry Belafonte, Nana Mouskouri, Sally Stevens

Votes: 10

35. The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode: Throwing Fire (2009)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The founder of a prestigious Baseball Academy is murdered. After Jane is hit in the head by a baseball as the investigation begins, he dwells on his father and his teenage years as a carnival psychic.

Director: Martha Mitchell | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman

Votes: 1,433

36. Greatest Sports Legends (1972–1993)
Episode: Johnny Bench (1982)

30 min | Sport

A biography of Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench, who was known as much for his hitting power--especially in home runs, hitting 45 in 1970--as his skill as a catcher.

Director: Steve Rotfeld | Stars: Ken Howard, Johnny Bench

37. The Finder (2012)
Episode: Swing and a Miss (2012)

TV-14 | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Baseball star pitcher Frank Haywood hires Walter to retrieve his stolen sports bag. Walter, who only accepted as a favor to Deputy U.S. Marshal Isabel Zambada, senses the crucial item isn't... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Geoff Stults, Maddie Hasson, Mercedes Mason, Michael Clarke Duncan

Votes: 265

38. Click Your Heart (2016– )
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2016)

TV-14 | 14 min | Romance

As Min-ah spends more time with Kim Ro-woon, a rivalry develops between Ro-woon and Lee Da-won.

Director: Doo-sik Min | Stars: Min-ah Kwon, Da-won Lee, Kim Ro-Woon, Ju-ho Baek

Votes: 6

39. Click Your Heart (2016– )
Episode: Episode #1.4 (2016)

TV-14 | 13 min | Romance

Kwon Min-ah's inability to give a direct answer shatters the romantic-triangle, but Kim Ro-woon soon finds he can't get Min-ah out of his head.

Director: Doo-sik Min | Stars: Min-ah Kwon, Da-won Lee, Kim Ro-Woon, Ju-ho Baek

Votes: 6

40. 13 Reasons Why (2017–2020)
Episode: Smile, Bitches (2018)

TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Tony opens up about his past. Sheri devises a plan to get into the clubhouse. Mr. Porter tries to help Justin. Zach and Bryce butt heads.

Director: Kat Candler | Stars: Dylan Minnette, Katherine Langford, Christian Navarro, Alisha Boe

Votes: 3,012