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1. Moneyball (2011)

PG-13 | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.

Director: Bennett Miller | Stars: Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Votes: 466,763 | Gross: $75.61M

2. Major League (1989)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Sport

The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her.

Director: David S. Ward | Stars: Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Margaret Whitton

Votes: 76,795 | Gross: $49.80M

3. Angels in the Outfield (1994)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

When a boy prays for a chance to have a family if the California Angels win the pennant, angels are assigned to make that possible.

Director: William Dear | Stars: Danny Glover, Brenda Fricker, Tony Danza, Christopher Lloyd

Votes: 34,562 | Gross: $50.24M

4. 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

5. Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)

Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Two turn-of-the-century baseball players, who work in vaudeville during the off-season, run into trouble with their team's new female owner and a gambler who doesn't want them to win the pennant.

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett

Votes: 4,100

6. Major League II (1994)

PG | 105 min | Comedy, Sport

The Indians are now a World Series contender. But last year's hunger is now replaced with complacency, and bad decisions by the new owner threaten to tear the team apart.

Director: David S. Ward | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert

Votes: 28,121 | Gross: $30.63M

7. 61* (2001 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 129 min | Biography, Drama, History

Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle race to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record.

Director: Billy Crystal | Stars: Barry Pepper, Thomas Jane, Anthony Michael Hall, Richard Masur

Votes: 17,680

8. Mr. Baseball (1992)

PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

Jack Elliot, once a great baseball player, is forced to play in Japan where his brash, egotistical ways cause friction with his new teammates and friends.

Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Aya Takanashi, Dennis Haysbert

Votes: 12,221 | Gross: $20.88M

9. Angels in the Outfield (1951)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The Pittsburgh Pirates' brash and abusive manager receives the help of an angel to win games and become a better person in the process.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Donna Corcoran

Votes: 3,018

10. Line of Fire (2003–2005)

60 min | Crime, Drama

A "political drama" that juxtaposes the stories of a young female F.B.I. agent (Bibb) and a mobster (Paymer).

Stars: Leslie Bibb, Anson Mount, Leslie Hope, Julie Ann Emery

Votes: 318

11. Alibi Ike (1935)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Donnelly, Roscoe Karns

Votes: 722

12. Death on the Diamond (1934)

Passed | 71 min | Drama, Mystery, Sport

Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Evans to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton, Ted Healy

Votes: 341

13. Los pequeños gigantes (1960)

Approved | 87 min | Documentary, Drama, Romance

Little league champions of a perfect game.

Director: Hugo Butler | Stars: Ángel Macías, Francisco Aguilar, Claudio Brook, Baltasar Charles

Votes: 58

14. Moonlight in Havana (1942)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Sport

Singing Johnny Norton is the star catcher of the Blue Sox baseball team but he is suspended because of insubordination. Producer Barney Crane hears Johnny singing and signs him to appear ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Allan Jones, Jane Frazee, Marjorie Lord, William Frawley

Votes: 57

15. Full Count (2022)

5 min | Short, Drama

Stuck between a bottle and a hard place, an old-school manager explores issues of trust and friendship in the big leagues.

Director: Claire Elliott | Stars: Dante Salerno, Scott Facher

16. The Busher (1919)

Not Rated | 63 min | Drama, Sport

A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues. But will he be up to the challenge?

Director: Jerome Storm | Stars: Charles Ray, Colleen Moore, John Gilbert, Jay Morley

Votes: 733

17. The Great American Pastime (1956)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Sport

Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.

Director: Herman Hoffman | Stars: Tom Ewell, Anne Francis, Ann Miller, Dean Jones

Votes: 329

18. 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

19. It Happened in Flatbush (1942)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

A washed up baseball player (Lloyd Nolan) returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but ends up clashing with the beautiful new owner (Carole Landis)

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Sara Allgood, William Frawley

Votes: 362

20. Drucker in the Dugout (2011)

Drama

Minami Kawashima (Atsuko Maeda), a female high school student, unexpectedly becomes the manager of Tokyo's Hodokubo High School baseball team. Soon enough, Minami realizes the team consists... See full summary »

Director: Makoto Tanaka | Stars: Sôsuke Ikematsu, Haruna Kawaguchi, Atsuko Maeda, Yô Ôizumi

Votes: 73

21. The New Klondike (1926)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate, in the midst of the Florida land boom (in... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, Paul Kelly, Hallie Manning

Votes: 38

22. Kiddie League (1959)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Woody Woodpecker's Kiddie League baseball team is in the championship game finals with the Bubble Gummers. Woody's screwball antics cause all manner of confusing things to happen in the ... See full summary »

Director: Paul J. Smith | Stars: Dal McKennon, Grace Stafford

Votes: 52

23. 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

24. The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962–1963)
Episode: The Skippy Mannox Story (1963)

30 min | Drama

Mickey Madden struggles to maintain his baseball team despite mounting debts including a mortgage held by Mr. Rogers. His last chance is his signing of a brilliant pitcher called Skippy Maxxox. Skippy, however, is a hypochondriac.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Beau Bridges, Jan Shepard, Woodrow Parfrey

25. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Mighty Casey (1960)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A down-and-out baseball team's fortunes are lifted by a mysterious but seemingly unbeatable young player.

Directors: Alvin Ganzer, Robert Parrish | Stars: Rod Serling, Jack Warden, Abraham Sofaer, Robert Sorrells

Votes: 3,034

26. The Twilight Zone (1985–1989)
Episode: Extra Innings (1988)

TV-PG | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

To the chagrin of his wife Cindy, fading baseball star Ed Hamner sees an uncanny resemblance between himself and Monte Hanks, a fellow baseball player who has the same stats as Ed but lived 78 years ago.

Director: Douglas Jackson | Stars: Marc Singer, Amber Lea Weston, Tracy New, J. Winston Carroll

Votes: 276

27. ABC Weekend Specials (1977–1995)
Episode: The Horse That Played Centerfield (1979)

TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The New York Goats cannot seem to win a single game of baseball. That is, until Oscar the Horse joins their team.

Directors: Rudy Larriva, Manuel Perez | Stars: Joan Gerber, Howard Morris, Allan Melvin, John Erwin

Votes: 20

28. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: Googan (1953)

Drama

A baseball team is mired in the second division until its manager follows the advice of his son's imaginary friend.

Stars: Thomas Coley, Virginia Gilmore, Ernest Truex

29. MLB Network Presents (2015– )
Episode: Buck Showalter: A Life in Baseball (2015)

Documentary, History, Sport

An in-depth look at the passion and philosophy that have been at the core of Orioles manager Buck Showalter through more than two decades of coaching and managing with four MLB clubs.

Stars: Buck Showalter, Bob Costas, Luis Gonzalez, Derek Jeter

30. WWF Championship Wrestling (1972–1997)
Episode: Episode dated 16 March 1985 (1985)

Action, Sport

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Stars: Lou Albano, Richard Blood, Rusty Brooks, King Kong Bundy

31. Our America with Lisa Ling (2011– )
Episode: A Predator in the Clubhouse (2013)

News

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Director: Rachel Libert | Star: Lisa Ling

32. 60 Minutes II (1999–2005)
Episode: Under the Microscope/Killing the Indian/Joe Torre (2001)

Documentary, News

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33. MLB Network Presents (2015– )
Episode: Terry Collins: A Life in Baseball (2016)

Documentary, History, Sport

Mets manager Terry Collins opens up about his baseball journey, from never making it to the Majors as a player to guiding the Mets to the 2015 World Series. Collins reflects on the 2015 ... See full summary »

Stars: Terry Collins, Tony LaRussa, Jim Leyland, Joe Maddon

Votes: 6