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Field of Dreams, The Rookie, and Bull Durham; these are a few of the baseball movies that have helped define one of the greatest sports in American culture, but how much do you know about them?Â
This quiz has all of the great baseball movies in cinema history. It includes the funniest comedies and the most tragic dramas. These films range from feel-good stories with completely fictional plots and characters, to stories that cause you to reflect on what real-life players meant to the game of baseball. You're guaranteed to remember all the laughs and the pain from your favorite baseball movies.Â
Of course, you have to be up to the challenge before you start. This quiz will put all of your baseball cinema knowledge to the test as questions from decades worth of movies come your way. This quiz covers movies from the '40s through the most recent ones to hit theaters. You might even discover a thing or two as well; like how Jackie Robinson has multiple movies reflecting on his story in baseball or some of those sequels and remakes that no one knows about.Â
If you're up for a challenge, take this quiz on baseball movies and see if you recognize them from a single sentence!
Jackie Robinson's story is told in this sports movie.
The Natural
Angels in the Outfield
The Pride of the Yankees
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Jackie Robinson was the first African American player in Major League Baseball. His time with the Dodgers helped break down color barriers in sports throughout the United States.
During WWII, these women form their own professional baseball league.
Angles in the Outfield
Moneyball
Eight Men Out
A League of Their Own
A League of Their Own is based on a real women's baseball league that formed during World War II. A variety of stars make up the cast, including Tom Hanks and Madonna.
This film follows Roy Hobbs from childhood to his retirement from baseball.
The Sandlot
The Natural
Roy Hobbs lives a difficult life in The Natural. Not only does his father die when he was young, but he also gets shot by a psychotic fan known for killing athletes.
The Phenom
Major League
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This film depicts the story of Lou Gehrig.
The Pride of the Yankees
Lou Gehrig was a star who played for the New York Yankees, playing first baseman for the team from 1923 to 1939. A legend on the field, Gehrig suffered from ALS, often referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease, and died at the age of 37.
Angels in the Outfield
Sugar
Rookie of the Year
A veteran catcher teaches a rookie pitcher about the major leagues.
Rookie of the Year
Bull Durham
Released in 1988, Bull Durham starred Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins. The movie is consistently ranked among the greatest sports movies of all time.
Sugar
Summer Catch
In this film, the owner of the Cleveland Indians wants to move the team to Miami.
The Bad News Bears
Field of Dreams
Mr. Baseball
Major League
Major League was the first of three movies in this baseball series. The other two movies, Major League II and Back to the Minors, weren't quite as successful as the first of the bunch.
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A 12-year-old​ boy becomes a baseball phenom after breaking his arm.
Field of Dreams
Rookie of the Year
Rookie of the Year was actually a remake of an older film called Roogie's Bump. Both films depict children who become baseball stars after freak accidents.
Eight Men Out
The Bad News Bears
The worst players are put on a little league team.
The Bad News Bears
The original The Bad News Bears starred Walter Matthau as Coach Morris Buttermaker. Buttermaker is a former baseball player with an alcohol problem; he's put in charge of coaching the Bears.
Eight Men Out
The Sandlot
For Love of the Game
Thomas Jane and Barry Pepper stared as Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris.
Eight Men Out
The Rookie
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61* follows baseball stars Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris and their 1961 season on the New York Yankees. During that season, both players tried to break Babe Ruth's single-season​ home run record of 60.
Moneyball
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Billy Chapel throws a perfect game.
Pitch Perfect
For Love of the Game
The announcer during the game in the movie was none other than Vin Scully, a legendary Major League Baseball broadcaster. Scully called four actual perfect games during his career.
The Rookie
Bang the Drum Slowly
Angels help a team win baseball games.
Moneyball
The Rookie
Bang the Drum Slowly
Angels in the Outfield
Though the Angels win the final game of the season, they do so without the help of actual angels. Instead, their pitcher, Mel Clark, comes through in the end.
The 1919 Chicago White Sox throw the world series.
Eight Men Out
The 1919 Black Sox scandal was one of the most controversial events in sports history. After throwing the 1919 World Series, all eight players were banned from baseball, including "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, who many believe was not involved.
The Sandlot
The Rookie
Mr. Baseball
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A dog collects baseballs that are lost over a fence.
Moneyball
The Sandlot
The Sandlot is a story of kid baseball players during the summer of 1962. The story follows Scotty Smalls as he tries to fit into a new town.
The Rookie
Mr. Baseball
A baseball field replaces a cornfield.
Moneyball
The Rookie
Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams was an adaptation of a book called Shoeless Joe. The United States National Film Registry selected the film in 2017 for preservation because of its cultural significance.
Fear Strikes Out
A baseball player comes back from retirement to reach 3,000 hits.
Mr. 3000
Mr. 3000 follows Stan Ross as he tries to get three final hits to reach 3,000, a record he was inaccurately given before he first retired. However, Stan is already 47 years old, so time is not on his side.
Moneyball
The Rookie
Bang the Drum Slowly
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The general manager of the Oakland Athletics uses numbers to build a team.
The Rookie
Fear Strikes Out
Mr. Baseball
Moneyball
Moneyball is based on a true story about the Oakland Athletics. In 2002, Billy Beane put together a team on a minimum budget using sabermetrics that he hoped would be competitive in the playoffs.
A 35-year-old pitcher joins Major League Baseball for the first time.
The Rookie
The Rookie is based on the true story of Jim Morris. Morris, despite having shoulder surgery when he was younger, joined the Tampa Bay Rays organization from 1999 until 2001.
Bang the Drum Slowly
Fever Pitch
Little Big League
A catcher and a pitcher grow close as the catcher suffers from Hodgkin's disease.
Fever Pitch
Bang the Drum Slowly
Bang the Drum Slowly stars Robert De Niro, who was still making a name for himself in the film industry when the film came out. This role helped put him on the map.
Little Big League
Trouble with the Curve
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A veteran player is traded to a Japanese Central League team.
Trouble with the Curve
Million Dollar Arm
Mr. Baseball
This is more than just a film about baseball; it also gives insight into Japanese culture.
The Scout
A Red Sox fan has trouble balancing his relationship with his love for his team.
Little Big League
Fever Pitch
In Fever Pitch, the Red Sox win the World Series. This was mirrored in real life when the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series while the movie was being filmed.
Million Dollar Arm
Fear Strikes Out
Young baseball player Ryan Dunne tries to make it to the major leagues while balancing a new relationship.
Soul of the Game
Trouble with the Curve
Summer Catch
The film was directed by Mike Tollin. Tollin is also known for other sports films like Radio and Varsity Blues.
The Perfect Game
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Two pitchers win a reality television show.
The Benchwarmers
Trouble with the Curve
The Scout
Million Dollar Arm
The movie depicts an actual event where an agent signs two pitchers, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, who won a reality television competition. They both were the first Indian nationals to sign with an American professional baseball team.
Three adults form a team to compete in a little league tournament.
The Benchwarmers
The Benchwarmers stars comedic heavyweights like David Spade and Rob Schneider. Both comedians were once part of Saturday Night Live.
The Scout
Trouble with the Curve
It Happens Every Spring
A gambling addict coaches a little league baseball team.
Soul of the Game
Hardball
Released in 2001, Hardball was based on a book by Daniel Coyle. For his role in the film, Keanu Reeves was named worst actor in the Razzie Awards.
The Fan
The Babe
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A scout can only find talent with mental health problems.
Trouble with the Curve
It Happens Every Spring
The Babe
The Scout
Released in 1994, this film was directed by Michael Ritchie. Ritchie was also known for directing The Bad News Bears, among other films.
Clint Eastwood plays an aging baseball scout who is trying to prove he still has it.
It Happens Every Spring
The Perfect Game
Trouble with the Curve
Trouble with the Curve was directed by Robert Lorenz. This was unique for Clint Eastwood because he had spent most of the latter half of his career directing his own films.
The Fan
A fan takes the game too seriously and kidnaps his favorite player's son.
The Babe
Sugar
Long Gone
The Fan
Despite a cast featuring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes, The Fan was a flop at the box office. It lost over $30 million.
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This film follows Branch Rickey as he tries to make changes in Major League Baseball.
Soul of the Game
Branch Rickey was a baseball executive who refused to settle for the norm in Major League Baseball. Not only did he help break the color barrier, but he also drafted Roberto Clemente, the first Hispanic​ player to make it into the Hall of Fame.
It Happens Every Spring
The Stratton Story
The Perfect Game
A little league team from Mexico wins the 1957 Little League World Series.
The Stratton Story
The Perfect Game
1957 was the first year that a team outside of the United States competed in the Little League World Series. Not only did the new team, the Industrial Little League from Monterrey, Mexico, compete in the tournament, but they won the whole thing.
It Happens Every Spring
The Babe
The Tampico Stogies compete in the Gulf Coast League​.
The Babe
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
Everyone's Hero
Long Gone
Long Gone was based on a book by Paul Hemphill, which was titled the same as the movie. Hemphill was also known for writing The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music.
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A baseball pitcher shoots himself in the leg.
The Babe
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
The Stratton Story
Monty Stratton was a Major League Baseball pitcher in the 1930s for the Chicago White Sox. Even after having his leg amputated, Stratton came back to pitch in the minor leagues for several years.
The Kid from Left Field
This film tells the story of Babe Ruth.
The Babe
Babe Ruth was known as "The Bambino." When he was traded from the Red Sox to the Yankees, the Curse of the Bambino began where the Red Sox failed to win a World Series until 2004.
Sugar
Brewster's Millions
Everyone's Hero
A professor invents a baseball that is repelled by wood.
Fear Strikes Out
The Kid from Left Field
Brewster's Millions
It Happens Every Spring
It Happens Every Spring starred Ray Miller as Vernon Simpson. Miller was also known for films like The Lost Weekend and Reap the Wild Wind.
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This story is about Jay "Dizzy" Dean.
Brewster's Million
The Kid from Left Field
The Pride of St. Louis
Jay "Dizzy" Dean was the pitcher for St. Louis when they won the World Series in 1934. Despite a dominant first half of his career, injuries in his foot and arm cut that success short.
Fear Strikes Out
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