Baseball
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death on the Diamond | 1934 | Edward Sedgwick | USA | Death on the Diamond: A Baseball Mystery Story | Cortland Fitzsimmons | 1934 | Novel |
| The Babe Ruth Story | 1948 | Roy Del Ruth | USA | The Babe Ruth Story | Bob Considine & Babe Ruth | 1948 | Autobiography |
| Bang the Drum Slowly * | 1956 | ? | USA | Bang the Drum Slowly | Mark Harris | 1956 | Novel |
| Fear Strikes Out | 1957 | Robert Mulligan | USA | Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story | Jimmy Piersall & Albert S. Hirshberg | 1955 | Autobiography |
| Bang the Drum Slowly | 1973 | John D. Hancock | USA | Bang the Drum Slowly | Mark Harris | 1956 | Novel |
| It's Good to Be Alive | 1974 | Michael Landon | USA | It's Good to Be Alive | Roy Campanella | 1960 | Autobiography |
| The Natural | 1984 | Barry Levinson | USA | The Natural | Bernard Malamud | 1952 | Novel |
| Long Gone | 1987 | Martin Davidson | USA | Long Gone (novel) | Paul Hemphill | 1979 | Novel |
| Eight Men Out | 1988 | John Sayles | USA | 8 Men Out | Eliot Asinof | 1963 | Non-fiction |
| Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson | USA | Shoeless Joe | W.P. Kinsella | 1982 | Novel |
| Cobb | 1994 | Ron Shelton | USA | Cobb: A Biography | Al Stump | 1994 | Non-fiction |
| The Fan | 1996 | Tony Scott | USA | The Fan | Peter Abrahams | 1995 | Novel |
| For Love of the Game | 1999 | Sam Raimi | USA | For Love of the Game | Michael Shaara | 1991 | Novel |
| American Pastime | 2007 | Desmond Nakano | USA | Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball (uncredited) |
Kerry Yo Nakagawa (uncredited) | 2002 | Non-fiction |
| Moneyball | 2011 | Bennett Miller | USA | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game | Michael Lewis | 2003 | Non-fiction |
- * television film.
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Famous quotes containing the word baseball:
“I’ve gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.”
—Marvin Cohen, U.S. author and humorist. Baseball the Beautiful, Links Books (1970)
“Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.”
—Thomas Boswell, U.S. sports journalist. “The Church of Baseball,” Baseball: An Illustrated History, ed. Geoffrey C. Ward, Knopf (1994)
“Compared to football, baseball is almost an Oriental game, minimizing individual stardom, requiring a wide range of aggressive and defensive skills, and filled with long periods of inaction and irresolution. It has no time limitations. Football, on the other hand, has immediate goals, resolution on every single play, and a lot of violence—itself a highlight. It has clearly distinguishable hierarchies: heroes and drones.”
—Jerry Mander, U.S. advertising executive, author. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, ch. 15, Morrow (1978)