Movies about baseball
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- DirectorHugh RetickerStarsRoy HauckHenry GradyFannie BourkeDramatization of the life of real life major league baseball player Mike Donlin.
- DirectorJerome StormStarsCharles RayColleen MooreJohn GilbertA 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?
- DirectorLawrence C. WindomStarsBabe RuthRuth TaylorWilliam SheerThe "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
- DirectorEmory JohnsonStarsTom SantschiJane ThomasDick BrandonJack Donovan, a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, refuses to throw a game for gambler Mike Moran. Moran retaliates by breaking up Donovan's family. Believing that his wife and son died in the sinking of an ocean liner, Donovan stays in baseball and, 20 years later, becomes manager of the New York Giants. What he doesn't know is that his family isn't dead and his son, Jack Jr., is now grown and looking for revenge against his father for what he believes was his abandonment of them.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsThomas MeighanLila LeePaul KellyTom 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 which a lot of the land sold was under water), makes a fortune and buys into the team that cut him from its roster.
- DirectorMonte BriceStarsWallace BeeryZasu PittsFord SterlingCasey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsWilliam HainesSally O'NeilHarry CareyJim Kelly, an arrogant smart aleck and pitcher loses his girlfriend Sally and his teammates, but wises up in time to save the day.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsRichard DixJean ArthurClaude KingBert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the enmity of McRae, the league's leading home-run hitter. In addition, he falls for the team owner's daughter, who McRae has designs on.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsHoward KeelPolly BergenMarjorie MainThe temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father's stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer who lucked into training a champ, the horse 'Gay Fleet'. Only nobody knows 'Gay Fleet' is any good yet. Rick has been intentionally losing so that he can buy the horse with a low-ball offer to the owner Carol. However Mercedes Bellway, a rival barn and in love with Rick, figures out his plan and tells Carol.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsBenny RubinPert KeltonRex LeaseOne 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 pitcher but a terrible catcher, is more of a comic relief, and is dating a somewhat odd girl.
- DirectorJack ConwaySam WoodStarsGus VanJoe SchenckBessie LoveWhen Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has worked her way into his confidence. When Mary sees Jack and Daisy together, she leaves Jack and Jack marries Daisy the next day. When Daisy decides that she wants into the Vaudeville act, she has Jack dump both Jerry and his baseball contract. But Jack soon finds that - no act - means no money - means no Daisy.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsSpencer TracyClaire LuceWarren HymerWhen paroled trustee Steve and former inmate Judy who try to put their criminal lives behind them are blackmailed, two career criminals come to their rescue.
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsStarsSpike JonesSpike Jones and His City SlickersHugh O'BrianA film intended for Bud Abbott and Lou Costello that ended up starring Hugh O'Brian and Buddy Hackett. Most of the footage was given over to Spike Jones and His City Slickers, about the all hands members of a 1910 fire company about to be mechanized.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsJoe E. BrownPatricia EllisFrank McHughCountry bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball. His skill with a bat takes the team to the World Series, but on the way to the championship he has to deal with gamblers and crooked pitchers.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsJoe E. BrownOlivia de HavillandRuth DonnellyIdiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsRobert YoungMadge EvansNat PendletonPop 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, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
- DirectorLambert HillyerStarsJulie BishopCharles QuigleyRita HayworthFoy Harris (John Gallaudet) is a bootlegger selling illegal booze and also running a girl's professional softball team and is romancing the team's catcher Sue Collins (Rita Hayworth). The murder of one of the team members gets a police detective, Lieutenant Flannigan (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams and Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley) a dim-witted, cub newspaper sports reporter involved. The reporter also has a romance going with the team's ace pitcher Ann Casey (Julie Bishop as Jacqueline Wells.)
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGary CooperTeresa WrightBabe RuthThe story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsLloyd NolanCarole LandisSara AllgoodA 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)
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsStarsLupe VelezEddie AlbertPatsy KellyA top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. His teammates try to get him to settle down with one woman so they can start winning some games.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsWilliam BendixClaire TrevorCharles BickfordWilliam Bendix suits up in Yankee flannels as the renowned pitcher-turned-outfielder Babe Ruth in a sports biopic that mixes facts with fiction.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsRay MillandJean PetersPaul DouglasA scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsJames StewartJune AllysonFrank MorganStar major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsFrank SinatraEsther WilliamsGene KellyTwo 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.
- DirectorHerbert KlineStarsGeorge BrentLynn BariRuss TamblynBaseball team (the Cleveland Indians) helps a troubled teenaged fan.