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Rudy | |
3 (23%) |
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A League Of Their Own | |
2 (15%) |
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Any Given Sunday | |
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Coach Carter | |
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Field Of Dreams | |
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Remember The Titans | |
1 (8%) |
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The Sandlot | |
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The Blindside | |
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Above The Rim | |
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Other | |
7 (54%) |
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lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)backtoblue
(11,343 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...unmatched. Gary Cooper, and Babe Ruth, and an ending that always makes me cry. Maybe greatest piece of Hollywood schmaltz ever...
Coventina
(27,121 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)A truly extraordinary story on so many levels
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)Was it only on Netflix? I confess that I don't watch much TV except for an embarrassingly large collection of DVDs. I occasionally watch shows at friends houses though.
I wanted to add The Longest Yard and The Replacements, but ran out of spaces.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Oh, here's Jim Jim Bouton, co-founder of Big League Chew, and Maverick's single season ace pitcher on Johnny Carson. Some pretty funny stuff. Jim Bouton is another extraordinary story.
CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 22, 2018, 10:11 AM - Edit history (1)
I remember the days when itinerant pitchers could find a job in a small town with a baseball team. One guy, with a wicked curve ball, a wife and baby, moved in next door for a summer. He bagged groceries during the day.
Jim Bouton and Bill Lee, part of the Truth and Reconciliation movement of the late 60's and early 70's, should have made baseball more relevant, more inclusive and more fun. Sadly, like everything else, corporate-ization became the preferred model.
Thanks for these...
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)He grew up north of me in Marin County. Over the years, he occasionally returned to play with the local independent pro team, sometimes on a one-day contract.
In 2012, at 65 years of age, he did an extraordinary thing in San Rafael, and there were rumors Pearly Sweetcake drifted in at 4:20 carrying a bottle of Grand Enwick to watch (cryptic, but cool San Rafael references):
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. Bill Spaceman Lee made history last August 23, 2012. Instead of cashing in on his newfound senior citizenship discounts, the 65-year former Major Leaguer took the mound and threw a complete game for the San Rafael Pacifics independent minor league baseball team.
In doing so, the Marin native, who won 119 games in 14 seasons for the Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos, became the oldest person to earn the win in a professional baseball game, a record which he had set two years earlier at age 63.
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https://pacificsbaseball.com/index.php/press-box-2015/press-releases2015/22-pacifics-news/pacifics-news-2013/pacifics-press-releases-2013/37-pacifics-celebrate-return-of-bill-spaceman-lee
Spaceman took itinerant pitching to a whole new level, traveling 3,000 miles for a pick-up game!
True Dough
(17,305 posts)When we gonna see him back on the mound?
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Bill Spaceman Lee Plays All Nine Positions in Game for Independent San Rafael Pacifics.
https://nesn.com/2013/08/bill-spaceman-lee-plays-all-nine-positions-in-game-for-independent-san-rafael-pacifics/
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Former Montreal Expos pitcher Bill Spaceman Lee, now 71, will start for the Ottawa Champions in a Can-Am League game against the Rockland Boulders on Montreal Expos Day at RCGT Park on Sept. 3, 2018.
Daily stretching exercise is his secret to longevity
Did you make any of my cryptic trivia clues about San Rafael?
True Dough
(17,305 posts)Wow! Just wow!
San Rafael? No idea what you're talking about.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Shel Silverstein, San Rafael high school, and The Mouse that Roared. Google would be a snap for two of them, the third may take some time.
True Dough
(17,305 posts)Does this relate to Spaceman's penchant for drugs?
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Bill Lee was straight laced until he was enlightened at USC, besides he went to Terra Linda high school, just to the north of San Rafael high school.
CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)...but I believe it was in his book that he mentioned 'getting high' in the Red Sox? bullpen and then being called in and pitching no hit baseball. Bill Lee was an inspiration to those of us who didn't make 'the bigs' but still liked playing the game.
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gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)backtoblue
(11,343 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)There's a commentary with Tim Robbins and Kevin Costner that's hilarious.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)LibinMo
(533 posts)I watch it every time it pops up on TV
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Of other: Bang The Drum Slowly
The Natural
Hoosiers
Doc_Technical
(3,526 posts)Another vote for Bang The Drum Slowly
OhioBlue
(5,126 posts)Last edited Tue Aug 21, 2018, 02:50 AM - Edit history (1)
"You're 5 foot nothin', 100 and nothin', and you have barely a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there with the best college football players in the land for 2 years. And you're gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this life, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody but yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen. Now go on back. " from Charles S Dutton's character is one of my faves... I also like how he ends up watching the game. The players offering up their jerseys for Rudy to play is such a display of solidarity that it makes me tear up.
But another movie that I love that didn't get much fanfare is "The Express - the Ernie Davis story". I had never heard of Ernie Davis before I saw the movie. I watched it, alone, with a free HBO promotional period and wept. Not long after that, I attended the Football HOF induction ceremonies in which Floyd Little (Ernie and Jim Brown's successor at Syracuse) gave a phenomenal speech and was introduced by VP Joe Biden. Both men have given such tribute to Ernie Davis.
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)Brian's Song was pretty good too.
OhioBlue
(5,126 posts)I do remember how moving it was.
Fla Dem
(23,690 posts)Olafjoy
(937 posts)So my two favorites are Secretariat and Seabiscuit. The 31 length margin of victory and record breaking time of 2:24 for Secretariat in the Belmont was simply amazing. Seabiscuit is just such a great underdog story.
I would also throw Miracle in there. Loved the boys beating the Russians. Thought Kurt Russell was a terrific Herb Brooks.
Really, I just love sports movies. Love all the ones listed above.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)I've not yet seen Secretariat but will watch now due to your recommendation here. Thank you!
Duppers
(28,125 posts)That and Seabiscuit. I cry every time I watch either.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)rurallib
(62,423 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)bif
(22,720 posts)I was curious why it didn't make the list.
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)backtoblue
(11,343 posts)The Mighty Ducks was a good hearted one too
Coventina
(27,121 posts)Hangingon
(3,071 posts)stopbush
(24,396 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)spooky3
(34,458 posts)Breaking Away
Powerball
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Story of the 1919 "Blacksox" who threw the World Series.
Aristus
(66,386 posts)So sad.
Such a stellar cast, too.
The late, great John Mahoney in a moving role as the Sox' manager.
A pre-crazy Charlie Sheen.
Don Harvey in his element as a hatchet-faced lout.
John Cusack in his element as a character of winsome sincerity.
Nancy Travis in a role that brings to mind the puzzling question of why she has not been a bigger star.
Kevin Tighe in his post-Emergency! run of villainous character roles.
The always perfectly-wonderful David Straithairn...
Writer-Director John Sayles as Ring Lardner.
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)I was 13 when this movie came out (1994) and loved Tupac and played basketball. In 94, the Arkansas Razorbacks won the national championship in basketball, so its a year of my childhood I'll never forget.
(Oops, my millennial is showing....lmao)
True Dough
(17,305 posts)Rocky III is still my all-time favorite.
Coventina
(27,121 posts)Can't believe it hasn't been listed yet....
Alpeduez21
(1,751 posts)Ali
Pumping Iron
Raging Bull
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Just about anything about Ali is a favorite too. My favorite sports hero, and pretty high on the political scale too.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)It is in my top five favorite movie list!
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Still thinking about my favorite but this should be in a list
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)yesphan
(1,588 posts)the Drum Slowly.
Docreed2003
(16,863 posts)Tikki
(14,557 posts)Tikki
ADX
(1,622 posts)...Hard to believe that neither one of them has been mentioned yet...
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)True story. Great Movie. Everyone should see it.