@@red5llaw I read that it was a real quote, but it took place in the locker room before the game…I believe it was the left fielder who suggested that they all wear 42 when the take the field since there was a real concern that a sniper was present. His comment broke the tension for the team.
I was going to say the James Earl Jones as the Undisputed champion of this collection, but then Here Comes Tom Hanks with the "There's no crying in baseball" speech. There are so many great performances in that movie it's easy to forget how great Tom Hanks was as Jimmy
There’s no crying in baseball has to be one of the most iconic sports movie quotes of all time maybe even all movies. It’s a line that a lot of people know
Baseball is called boring by people who do not understand it. It is really chess played by opposing teams and managers. There are many parts of it best watched in person. I have always loved the game, so simple and yet infinitely complex. Sorry so many people do not understand it, but that leaves many millions of us who attend every year.
The reason people Call it “boring” is because they watch it wrong. You don’t go for a “game” it’s meant to be a day at the ballpark. It’s meant to be seen outdoors or, if you’re lucky enough, listened to on a radio with a top class play by play man (I was spoiled and grew up with Dave Niehaus). You’re sitting in the bleachers on a hot summer looking at short cut grass, hearing the sound of the ball off the bat into the glove, seeing slick infielding, a rundown, hearing 20 thousand people hold their breath on a pitch, being close enough to hear “he’s going!” On a steal. Then you look up and 2 hours pass and while the game is going and you’re smelling hotdogs and the foam from the cold beer is running down your knuckles you notice the sunset but you don’t care about the time because it’s the 7th and you’re sitting next to the dad and his kid who brought a mitt and it’s time to sing. Then your hit the 9th, you start to hear people leaving and the handful of folks left hanging on that last out. Like you said, chess, but to me, at its most beautiful baseball isn’t as exciting as other sports, but it puts you in a situation where time just goes at the pace it needs to and slowly works your senses until you find yourself just in tune with everything.
But they have now taken a lot of that away with adding the DH to the NL. There used to be a lot more thought, now they are just making up stuff like putting a man on 2nd. I just think they have wrecked a lot of it.
My wife and I met Mr Jones after a Broadway performance of Othello, he treated this fellow Mississippi country boy like his long lost little brother. I love the man...
This may be the best bit, the best performance James Earl Jones ever delivered, and one of the most iconic speeches ever given in any movie ever. I loved this one, and the president's speeches in Independence Day and at the end of the American President as well. And very little compares with the Jack Nicholson "You want me on that wall! You need me on that wall..." speech from A Few Good Men. There have certainly been some iconic and altogether memorable and quotable bits from great movies, speeches that carry us back to a fond memory of childhood or toward a hoped-for future. There are lines we recall years later because they touched us so much when we saw and heard them that they colored our lives in ways even we cannot understand. They were the perfect synthesis between the right actor delivering the right line in the right film that was released at the right time to touch us all universally. They are rare, and they are precious. Jodi Foster giving that speech before the investigative body at the end of Contact is one such. And I loved the line that kept cropping up, with no fewer, I think, than five different people delivering it, about whether we are alone in the universe "If we are, it seems like an awful waste of space". That is one that shows all the hope and promise we WANT to exist in the world. Both Sagan and his wife Anne Drury were avid sci-fi nuts, as well as both being trained scientists and engineers in their own rights. Both were extreme polymaths, geniuses of great promise and insight and hope. We can all only try to reach the hopes and dreams that are represented in the world Carl Sagan tried to show us. I think Contact was the first novel of its kind I read, although I grew up with sci-fi and fantasy as my McGuffey's Reader. I learned to read from HG Welles and Jules Verne. I cut my teeth on Barsoom and A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court. I also grew up with the Hardy Boys by nine years old, ahead of my classmates. Swift and his ilk taught me speculative fiction, and Sherlock Holmes was my master of detection before I reached my teens. By high school I had graduated to Nero Wolfe and Ellery Queen. Trying to match wits with Nero and Archie was my favorite endeavor. Fritz Brenner helped me learn to appreciate cooking, and I learned to dance on the off chance I might run into Lily Rowan some evening on the dance floor. From Theodore Horstmann I learned an appreciation of orchids and for what nature can offer. My point, however rambling I may be in getting there, is that we are all the stories we have read and movies we have seen, and these lines are the essence of who we wish we could be, but far too often fall short of achieving, more is the pity. We want to be these people. This is why these lines touch us so. We want so much to identify with these characters. We try to capture even a fraction of that, hoping that fraction will take us the rest of the way there. It ultimately comes up short, but we keep hoping, and we keep striving toward a better tomorrow.
Baseball. One of my earliest memories is being at the old Cleveland Stadium over 50 years ago, double header, there were fireworks that night. I had fallen asleep on my dads lap to the sounds and smell of baseball. I’ve loved it ever since.
I'm older and wiser now. I read shoeless Joe decades ago and honestly hadn't seen the movie in years. After watching it again I realized how personal it was for W.P. Kinsella, he really was making peace with his father through this story. My guess is he really had a rocky relationship with his father.
Crash was the "stable pony", a de facto player-coach. He being demoted from AA ball to the Advanced-A Carolina League should have been a message, along with a career of languishing in the minors with but a few weeks in the "Show", that his playing days were at their end. More or less, he was "auditioning" for a coaching/managing position with the unnamed "organization", appears to be the Mets since his first TV interview after being called up is at Shea Stadium. However, the Bulls Manager, Joe "Skip" Riggins, advise him there'd probably be an opening the next season at Single-A Visalia (California League), which at the time was a farm club of the Minnesota Twins.
Let's face it. How many guys pushing FORTY would leave the humdrum daily existence for a chance to play in the Mexican Winter League, sleeping in THEIR cheap motels, and having the company of a *ahem* senorita after the game? Hence why Jake would be a tad "irritated" ("Is that YOU, Tolbert?") when he gets the call from the INDIANS GM, and he believes it to be a prank.
"It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again." I could talk for hours about why I love baseball. But that quote, in a nutshell, sums it up.
@@kristinaof not even close. Maybe old basketball, now it’s all overpaid whiny bitches. There’s no heart in basketball. Not since Kobe retired. Last generation to push hard.
I honestly think watching baseball is about a half step up from watching paint dry, but I could listen to James Earl Jones talk about it all day. And weirdly, movies about baseball tend to be really, *really* good.
I have only seen movies with baseball - never seen a game. A friend told Me about about the same as You wrote - paint dry. and told Me never too se a real match. Be lucky and belive in the movies! That was 15-18 years ago, still havent seen a reak match! =) I really love the movies. the Natural, My favorite! Major Leauge 1 and 3 oki...2 can be there. Bull Durham For love of the game etc
baseball is one of those games that you really just need to be there to watch in person to enjoy. On TV, unless you're a die hard fan, it's very dull and boring. There's just something about the bleachers, the atmosphere and the sounds that make it better.
@@hakansoderholm6514 watch a game. Live in person. Not tv. Baseball isn’t meant for tv. There is nothing like the crack of the bat. The sound of a high 90mph pitch hitting the catchers glove. The game is like chess. It can be slow, but it is all strategy. And I am old school. I like pitchers duels. Where one hit can mean the game.
I heard years ago hope its not true that James Earl Jones did not want to do the PEOPLE WILL COME RAY speech. Next to Lou Gehrig's LUCKIEST MAN speech it is for me the greatest baseball speeches I ever heard
10:50 The guy with his head down is Danny Gans. He at one time was a prospect in the White Sox organization until he ruptured his Achilles tendon ending his baseball career. Undaunted, he became an entertainer as mostly an impressionist. He eventually settled in Las Vegas with the Danny Gans show at the Stratosphere then the Rio then The Mirage(where I saw him) and finally the Encore. He was named entertainer of the year 10 years running. His show was very entertaining and sold out nearly every night. Sadly he passed away from an allergic reaction to dilauded in 2009. He was only 52.
MLB, get Shoeless Joe into the HOF please for Gods sake....i dont even follow Baseball but even i know the story before i watched this film....he took it to stay alive, but still played a great game.....many in there have been inducted while taken steroids to cheat, but Joe didnt....rant over
My favorite quote is from Rookie of the Year, Chef Stedman. "Henry, don't take this serious. But its nothing to joke about. But one day, your gift will be gone."
The funny thing is that mound visits like that one in Bull Durham is exactly how they actually are. As a former catcher, I would know. And it's get me everytime lol
Bob Uecker was as hilarious in real life as he was in this movie. "Ball four. Ball eight." That will never not be funny. And as a Cubs fan in the 80's-90's, it was a line that was very appropriate for certain Cubs pitchers.🙂
Back in 2014, the St. Louis BBWAA had a reunion of the 1964 World Champion Cardinals at their annual dinner. Uecker was on that team, and was telling stories and let me tell you something, that was incredible. Up on the stage that night, too, were two Gold Gloves and Yadier Molina's Platinum Glove. They were on a table next to Tim McCarver. McCarver was laughing so hard and pounding the table that he almost knocked all three onto the stage. That was an incredibly fun night.
James Earl Jones "People Will Come Ray". Best in baseball. I play tennis and have a good friend there named Ray. I can do the voice and he asked me all the time if people will come today. I've changed the words a little to make it tennis. Just a little fun.
there are - IMO - only four movies where one can weep at the end and not forfeit one's man card: "Brian's Song", "Bang the Drum Slowly", "Pride of the Yankees" and "Field of Dreams".
Perhaps the only four sports films, or else there are a couple of war films I'd add to that list. Tom Hank's last stand from "Saving Private Ryan" comes to mind.
....hey you want some more.....ZIP IT DORIS...Kevin Costner MVP/GOAT of sports movies....1 Mississippi...You Lolly-gaggers....a juvenile delinquent in the offseason..ball 4...ball 8...ball 12...great list!!!!!
Love this. But if I had to add something. From a favorite childhood movie : One more loss! One more loss which could've been a win! And you call yourselves "professionals"! I have never ever seen a worst group of 25 players! You don't think as a team, you don't play as a team, you don't even lose as a team! You all got your heads so far up your butts, you can't even see the light of day! One more loss and I'll [picks up chair]... and I'll do this to each and every one of you!! George Knox: I want you... here in uniform at 9 tomorrow! We're going back to work on fundamentals!!
I went down a rabbit hole on this one. First I immediately went to watch field of dreams and in the beginning they quoted shoeless joe at a lifetime BA of .366 so I went to verify that and looking at his stats I noticed some anomalies 1 year he hit .360 something with like 250 hits but he didn't win the batting title. So I'm like who would have been beating him? Then I realized there were a number of yrs he didn't win the batting title with a very high batting average. So who was winning them? Then I realized TY Cobb. I was looking at his stats in those same yrs and they are insane .370 .380 .390 .400 plus for years on end, so ridiculous high that .350 would have been a slump for him. Anyway excuse my rambling on.
DJ. I lived in the LA broadcast area growing up. We had Vin Scully, Bob Miller and the incomparable Francis “Chick” Hearn. Talk about The Mt Rushmore of broadcasters, I didn’t realize how good we had it.
Boy. Nothing from "The Natural"? "Every man gets two lives -- the one they learn with, and the one they live with after that." And, as my son so adroitly pointed out, Robert Redford's simple, "God I love baseball" from the hospital bed trumps all of the long windedness of James Earl Jones' self conscious speech in "Field of Dreams".
The dude that hit the HR and didn't realize it? That literally happened to me. Playing in an adult league at age 28 we were on a field that had a HUGE HR fence in left. 365 feet in the power alley, but the fence was 25' high! I was never a power hitter. I was a singles and doubles guy with a high average. I hit a line drive. I knew I crushed it and I expected the ball to hit the fence on the fly. Being overweight at the time I put my head down and chugged as hard as I could in an attempt to get a double. I stood on second panting and proud of my stand up double. That's when I hear the 3rd base coach call my name and waving me to 3rd. "Jeff...c'mon!" It was the only bona fide, over the fence HR I ever hit, and I missed my opportunity to enjoy a HR trot around the bases.
At a time when Americans were killing each other, during the Civil War, prisoners of war played baseball with their guards watching. Baseball is America's game, and if God wills, hopefully it will continue to be. My most cherished memories are plays that I made during games, great moments that I watched on TV and the first Dodger game I took my 16-month-daughter to. She had her first ever snow cone while sitting on my lap and spilled half of it all over me. A moment that the stars will remember it was so powerful. The two loves of my life converged. Thank you God.
"Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42, that way, they won't tell us apart."
Classic. Wish it was a real quote.
That line gets me choked up everytime!
@@red5llaw I read that it was a real quote, but it took place in the locker room before the game…I believe it was the left fielder who suggested that they all wear 42 when the take the field since there was a real concern that a sniper was present. His comment broke the tension for the team.
Such a great line.
In hindsight- there is a day in which every player wears 42.
I was going to say the James Earl Jones as the Undisputed champion of this collection, but then Here Comes Tom Hanks with the "There's no crying in baseball" speech. There are so many great performances in that movie it's easy to forget how great Tom Hanks was as Jimmy
“It's supposed to be hard.
If it wasn't hard,
everyone would do it.
The hard is what makes it great.” -- Jimmy Dugan
@@Ducksoup67 this was the best line from that movie.
You really comparing Tom Hanks' speech to James Earl Jones'? Um...no way.
"Don't get the clap" Jimmy Dugan
@@jpizzle1223 *Avoid* the clap. -- That’s good advice!! : D
Baseball is simple. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes it rains.
I’m 68 years old and I still play baseball and I get to play baseball today! I get laughed at too but I do not cry! What a great game.
Never quit! Not as long as you’re having fun⚾️
Keep playing if it’s fun for you. Don’t let anyone get you down.
never get told that youre too old to play the game bud!
Absolutely!! It’s a great game despite the money and horrible owners.
@@camreesemy Grandpa did it till 92. Join the senior games young man!
James Earl Jones made "field of dreams" so much better. His part was awesome!
He made sandlot better too
There’s no crying in baseball has to be one of the most iconic sports movie quotes of all time maybe even all movies. It’s a line that a lot of people know
Exactly! There's no crying in _______________!
Field of Dreams movie made me cry. The performances of both James Earl James and Kevin Costner were Fantastic!!!
“You’re killing me smalls!” My friends and I still say it to each other when we go to a baseball game together!
Been using that line since this movie came out. Its just the perfect response to a good "duhh" moment.
That and call my friends Potzer
Baseball is called boring by people who do not understand it. It is really chess played by opposing teams and managers. There are many parts of it best watched in person. I have always loved the game, so simple and yet infinitely complex. Sorry so many people do not understand it, but that leaves many millions of us who attend every year.
It’s the best game ever invented
The reason people Call it “boring” is because they watch it wrong. You don’t go for a “game” it’s meant to be a day at the ballpark.
It’s meant to be seen outdoors or, if you’re lucky enough, listened to on a radio with a top class play by play man (I was spoiled and grew up with Dave Niehaus).
You’re sitting in the bleachers on a hot summer looking at short cut grass, hearing the sound of the ball off the bat into the glove, seeing slick infielding, a rundown, hearing 20 thousand people hold their breath on a pitch, being close enough to hear “he’s going!” On a steal. Then you look up and 2 hours pass and while the game is going and you’re smelling hotdogs and the foam from the cold beer is running down your knuckles you notice the sunset but you don’t care about the time because it’s the 7th and you’re sitting next to the dad and his kid who brought a mitt and it’s time to sing.
Then your hit the 9th, you start to hear people leaving and the handful of folks left hanging on that last out.
Like you said, chess, but to me, at its most beautiful baseball isn’t as exciting as other sports, but it puts you in a situation where time just goes at the pace it needs to and slowly works your senses until you find yourself just in tune with everything.
it used to be chess. Now its all about the long ball
@@scoop2622 very true. The 90s/steroid era ruined a lot of what I love about it. I’m old school. I like base hits and fundamentals.
But they have now taken a lot of that away with adding the DH to the NL. There used to be a lot more thought, now they are just making up stuff like putting a man on 2nd. I just think they have wrecked a lot of it.
My wife and I met Mr Jones after a Broadway performance of Othello, he treated this fellow Mississippi country boy like his long lost little brother. I love the man...
This may be the best bit, the best performance James Earl Jones ever delivered, and one of the most iconic speeches ever given in any movie ever. I loved this one, and the president's speeches in Independence Day and at the end of the American President as well. And very little compares with the Jack Nicholson "You want me on that wall! You need me on that wall..." speech from A Few Good Men. There have certainly been some iconic and altogether memorable and quotable bits from great movies, speeches that carry us back to a fond memory of childhood or toward a hoped-for future. There are lines we recall years later because they touched us so much when we saw and heard them that they colored our lives in ways even we cannot understand. They were the perfect synthesis between the right actor delivering the right line in the right film that was released at the right time to touch us all universally. They are rare, and they are precious. Jodi Foster giving that speech before the investigative body at the end of Contact is one such. And I loved the line that kept cropping up, with no fewer, I think, than five different people delivering it, about whether we are alone in the universe "If we are, it seems like an awful waste of space". That is one that shows all the hope and promise we WANT to exist in the world. Both Sagan and his wife Anne Drury were avid sci-fi nuts, as well as both being trained scientists and engineers in their own rights. Both were extreme polymaths, geniuses of great promise and insight and hope. We can all only try to reach the hopes and dreams that are represented in the world Carl Sagan tried to show us. I think Contact was the first novel of its kind I read, although I grew up with sci-fi and fantasy as my McGuffey's Reader. I learned to read from HG Welles and Jules Verne. I cut my teeth on Barsoom and A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court. I also grew up with the Hardy Boys by nine years old, ahead of my classmates. Swift and his ilk taught me speculative fiction, and Sherlock Holmes was my master of detection before I reached my teens. By high school I had graduated to Nero Wolfe and Ellery Queen. Trying to match wits with Nero and Archie was my favorite endeavor. Fritz Brenner helped me learn to appreciate cooking, and I learned to dance on the off chance I might run into Lily Rowan some evening on the dance floor. From Theodore Horstmann I learned an appreciation of orchids and for what nature can offer. My point, however rambling I may be in getting there, is that we are all the stories we have read and movies we have seen, and these lines are the essence of who we wish we could be, but far too often fall short of achieving, more is the pity. We want to be these people. This is why these lines touch us so. We want so much to identify with these characters. We try to capture even a fraction of that, hoping that fraction will take us the rest of the way there. It ultimately comes up short, but we keep hoping, and we keep striving toward a better tomorrow.
"Just one more day of summer."
You said it, Vinny.
And all the more poignant now. RIP Vin
Robert Wahl's performance in Bull Durham is classic. The energy in the "Let's turn two" speech is a masterclass in deadpan, AND it was ad libbed.
“Were dealing with a lot of shit here.”
“Candlesticks always make a nice gift.”
Find out where they're registered
Maybe get a nice place setting.
Baseball. One of my earliest memories is being at the old Cleveland Stadium over 50 years ago, double header, there were fireworks that night. I had fallen asleep on my dads lap to the sounds and smell of baseball. I’ve loved it ever since.
I'm older and wiser now. I read shoeless Joe decades ago and honestly hadn't seen the movie in years. After watching it again I realized how personal it was for W.P. Kinsella, he really was making peace with his father through this story. My guess is he really had a rocky relationship with his father.
There may be no crying in baseball. But there is crying watching these quotes. Thanks for posting.
The 1st scene always brings tears to my eyes. JEJ is a genius.
I always loved how, after Crash told him to "scare em", he doesn't feel the need to stop shaving and head to the shower for the yelling.
Crash was the "stable pony", a de facto player-coach. He being demoted from AA ball to the Advanced-A Carolina League should have been a message, along with a career of languishing in the minors with but a few weeks in the "Show", that his playing days were at their end. More or less, he was "auditioning" for a coaching/managing position with the unnamed "organization", appears to be the Mets since his first TV interview after being called up is at Shea Stadium. However, the Bulls Manager, Joe "Skip" Riggins, advise him there'd probably be an opening the next season at Single-A Visalia (California League), which at the time was a farm club of the Minnesota Twins.
Dennis Quaid in The Rookie “You know what we get to do today, Brooks? We get to play baseball.”
"Couldn't cut it in the Mexican leagues" is a go to quote when I do something wrong
Let's face it. How many guys pushing FORTY would leave the humdrum daily existence for a chance to play in the Mexican Winter League, sleeping in THEIR cheap motels, and having the company of a *ahem* senorita after the game? Hence why Jake would be a tad "irritated" ("Is that YOU, Tolbert?") when he gets the call from the INDIANS GM, and he believes it to be a prank.
"It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again."
I could talk for hours about why I love baseball. But that quote, in a nutshell, sums it up.
Baseball has a way of making anyone a hero.
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
Billy beane
I hate losing. I hate losing even more than I want to win.
Love of the sport.
Anything said by Vin Scully is a baseball quote worth listening to. Epic voice, epic man.
"Little roller up along first..." 😁
I like how Tom hanks way of reasoning with the umpire was “she’s crying sir”
Not one clip from The Natural? The scene with Redford and Glenn Close in the maternity ward is just fantastic. "God I love baseball."
"Knock the cover off the ball!"
"My mother told me I ought to be a farmer."
"My dad wanted me to be a baseball player."
There goes Roy Hobbs, the best there's ever been.
Was such a good movie!
The best game ever!!!
Basketball still better
agreed! Baseball best sport ever!
@@kristinaof not even close. Maybe old basketball, now it’s all overpaid whiny bitches. There’s no heart in basketball. Not since Kobe retired. Last generation to push hard.
"You trying to say that Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball." Lmao
I honestly think watching baseball is about a half step up from watching paint dry, but I could listen to James Earl Jones talk about it all day.
And weirdly, movies about baseball tend to be really, *really* good.
I have only seen movies with baseball - never seen a game.
A friend told Me about about the same as You wrote - paint dry. and told Me never too se a real match. Be lucky and belive in the movies!
That was 15-18 years ago, still havent seen a reak match! =)
I really love the movies.
the Natural, My favorite!
Major Leauge 1 and 3 oki...2 can be there.
Bull Durham
For love of the game etc
I could listen to James Earl Jones talk about paint drying and love every minute. 😁
baseball is one of those games that you really just need to be there to watch in person to enjoy. On TV, unless you're a die hard fan, it's very dull and boring.
There's just something about the bleachers, the atmosphere and the sounds that make it better.
@@colerowekamp58 I could listen to Vin Scully talk all day too
@@hakansoderholm6514 watch a game. Live in person. Not tv. Baseball isn’t meant for tv. There is nothing like the crack of the bat. The sound of a high 90mph pitch hitting the catchers glove. The game is like chess. It can be slow, but it is all strategy. And I am old school. I like pitchers duels. Where one hit can mean the game.
I heard years ago hope its not true that James Earl Jones did not want to do the PEOPLE WILL COME RAY speech. Next to Lou Gehrig's LUCKIEST MAN speech it is for me the greatest baseball speeches I ever heard
“Hey rookie………you were good.”
10:50 The guy with his head down is Danny Gans. He at one time was a prospect in the White Sox organization until he ruptured his Achilles tendon ending his baseball career. Undaunted, he became an entertainer as mostly an impressionist. He eventually settled in Las Vegas with the Danny Gans show at the Stratosphere then the Rio then The Mirage(where I saw him) and finally the Encore. He was named entertainer of the year 10 years running. His show was very entertaining and sold out nearly every night. Sadly he passed away from an allergic reaction to dilauded in 2009. He was only 52.
I think the "just throw" speech from "For Love of the Game" should be in here. It always gives me chills.
Field of Dreams is best baseball movie all time. Costner and James Earl Jones are incredible
The scenes they used from 'Bull Durham' are great, but I can't believe they left out 'What's the difference between a .250 hitter and a .300 hitter?'
So humbling seeing darth Vader calmly talk about baseball.
MLB, get Shoeless Joe into the HOF please for Gods sake....i dont even follow Baseball but even i know the story before i watched this film....he took it to stay alive, but still played a great game.....many in there have been inducted while taken steroids to cheat, but Joe didnt....rant over
Giants (baseball) fan here and hearing Vinny made me want to cry!
The Moneyball clip and quote at 9:18 chokes me up every time. Sportsmanship ladies and gentleman.
It’s suppose to be hard, if it wasn’t hard, everybody would do it. The hard is what makes it great!
I use that quote at work and it’s always been well received
My favorite quote is from Rookie of the Year, Chef Stedman.
"Henry, don't take this serious. But its nothing to joke about. But one day, your gift will be gone."
That didn’t even hurt okay and what the heck was I talking about both make me laugh to this day
The funny thing is that mound visits like that one in Bull Durham is exactly how they actually are. As a former catcher, I would know. And it's get me everytime lol
One of the greatest sports movies ever
Tom Hanks' crazy eyes when he says, "No! No! And you know why?" are absolutely epic.
Bob Uecker was as hilarious in real life as he was in this movie. "Ball four. Ball eight." That will never not be funny. And as a Cubs fan in the 80's-90's, it was a line that was very appropriate for certain Cubs pitchers.🙂
His Hall Of Fame acceptance speech was comedy gold!
It was equally funny when Uecker said Just a bit outside....lmao.
Back in 2014, the St. Louis BBWAA had a reunion of the 1964 World Champion Cardinals at their annual dinner. Uecker was on that team, and was telling stories and let me tell you something, that was incredible. Up on the stage that night, too, were two Gold Gloves and Yadier Molina's Platinum Glove. They were on a table next to Tim McCarver. McCarver was laughing so hard and pounding the table that he almost knocked all three onto the stage. That was an incredibly fun night.
Prediction in the field of dreams came true.
Just a bit outside, he tried the corner and missed. Bob Uecker is so funny
Bob Uecker had to buy the Cardinals a new Tuba when he thought it would be hilarious to field shag balls with theirs. Hes been a ham forever
There's No Crying In Baseball
"It is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Very bad."
I love baseball and baseball movies.
Tom hanks character was based on All time great Jimi Foxx.
In this movie, there are several. I would offer “Peace Love Dope!, Now get the hell outa here!”
Juuuuusssst a bit outside
James Earl Jones "People Will Come Ray". Best in baseball. I play tennis and have a good friend there named Ray. I can do the voice and he asked me all the time if people will come today. I've changed the words a little to make it tennis. Just a little fun.
Just....a bit outside
How did these batters lay off those swings. Now the bases are loaded
Lol
Greatest baseball moment in history
there are - IMO - only four movies where one can weep at the end and not forfeit one's man card: "Brian's Song", "Bang the Drum Slowly", "Pride of the Yankees" and "Field of Dreams".
Perhaps the only four sports films, or else there are a couple of war films I'd add to that list. Tom Hank's last stand from "Saving Private Ryan" comes to mind.
Go pick out a winner, Bobby. Just saw that again this evening.
I want to say im biggest fan of baseball ⚾️ games right now and I do like baseball it's my thing and my life.
"how can you not be romantic about baseball?"
Not just a baseball movie, but a great Movie
....hey you want some more.....ZIP IT DORIS...Kevin Costner MVP/GOAT of sports movies....1 Mississippi...You Lolly-gaggers....a juvenile delinquent in the offseason..ball 4...ball 8...ball 12...great list!!!!!
Despite the fact Robinson stated that moment happened, so many sports writers dispute the event and proclaim it false. I truly do not understand it.
Love this.
But if I had to add something.
From a favorite childhood movie
: One more loss! One more loss which could've been a win! And you call yourselves "professionals"! I have never ever seen a worst group of 25 players! You don't think as a team, you don't play as a team, you don't even lose as a team! You all got your heads so far up your butts, you can't even see the light of day! One more loss and I'll [picks up chair]... and I'll do this to each and every one of you!!
George Knox: I want you... here in uniform at 9 tomorrow! We're going back to work on fundamentals!!
"How can you not be romantic about baseball" sums it all up.
a masterpiece
Love love love it !
great movies have great quotes
“We don’t know where he played last year, but I’m sure he did a hell of a job.”
I enjoyed the video. I hope Pride of the Yankees will be included in the next video
And the Natural. It’s in my top three baseball movies. And the only one without Kevin Costner 🤷♂️
Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42
Kevin Costner in a baseball movie is money. Every time. Those were 3 GREAT movies.
No one on the planet can deliver this like JEJ
Netflix Needs Baseball Movies
I went down a rabbit hole on this one. First I immediately went to watch field of dreams and in the beginning they quoted shoeless joe at a lifetime BA of .366 so I went to verify that and looking at his stats I noticed some anomalies 1 year he hit .360 something with like 250 hits but he didn't win the batting title. So I'm like who would have been beating him? Then I realized there were a number of yrs he didn't win the batting title with a very high batting average. So who was winning them? Then I realized TY Cobb.
I was looking at his stats in those same yrs and they are insane .370 .380 .390 .400 plus for years on end, so ridiculous high that .350 would have been a slump for him. Anyway excuse my rambling on.
A hit just below every second at bat....crazy stats
How is the "What do you believe in" speach from Bull Durham not in this?
Bull Durham is full of memorable quotes.
"Peace love dope!" 😂
James Earl Jones speech is still epic in 2024
7:28 Not such a great movie but listening to Vin Scully made you feel like you were watching a real game.
DJ. I lived in the LA broadcast area growing up. We had Vin Scully, Bob Miller and the incomparable Francis “Chick” Hearn. Talk about The Mt Rushmore of broadcasters, I didn’t realize how good we had it.
Boy. Nothing from "The Natural"? "Every man gets two lives -- the one they learn with, and the one they live with after that." And, as my son so adroitly pointed out, Robert Redford's simple, "God I love baseball" from the hospital bed trumps all of the long windedness of James Earl Jones' self conscious speech in "Field of Dreams".
Great compilation! I thought it was a Costner comp for a bit
The man has made three great baseball movies (or at least two great and one very good).
2021 game, I cried
One of the videos in this series should just be the entire showing of Major League
My G-d! That James Earl Jones is eloquent! He is awesome!
Loved him in shawshank redemption
The dude that hit the HR and didn't realize it? That literally happened to me.
Playing in an adult league at age 28 we were on a field that had a HUGE HR fence in left. 365 feet in the power alley, but the fence was 25' high! I was never a power hitter. I was a singles and doubles guy with a high average. I hit a line drive. I knew I crushed it and I expected the ball to hit the fence on the fly. Being overweight at the time I put my head down and chugged as hard as I could in an attempt to get a double. I stood on second panting and proud of my stand up double. That's when I hear the 3rd base coach call my name and waving me to 3rd. "Jeff...c'mon!"
It was the only bona fide, over the fence HR I ever hit, and I missed my opportunity to enjoy a HR trot around the bases.
At a time when Americans were killing each other, during the Civil War, prisoners of war played baseball with their guards watching. Baseball is America's game, and if God wills, hopefully it will continue to be.
My most cherished memories are plays that I made during games, great moments that I watched on TV and the first Dodger game I took my 16-month-daughter to. She had her first ever snow cone while sitting on my lap and spilled half of it all over me. A moment that the stars will remember it was so powerful. The two loves of my life converged. Thank you God.
We all know what the greatest baseball movie quote is... "Look at this fucking guy,"... Poetry.
Let’s play two…still my favorite
12:40 Clue Hayward was played by former pitcher Pete Vukovich, a lifetime .159 hitter with no homers.
Problem with the Tom Hanks quote is, as a Cleveland fan I have learned that there is much crying in baseball.
"maybe will all wear 42 that way they will never tell us apart"
"How'd we ever win eight?"
James Earl Jones was predicting Disney Plus+........ 30 years before..........,20 bucks for nostalgia..
Other than family is there anything you have loved your whole life?.... BASEBALL!!!!
James Earl Jones knows the english language and how to say it better than anyone else.
Baseball ⚾ Makes The Third Rock From The Sun a Better Place To Live.
your killing me smalls.
Ok let’s get two!
Maybe it's in Part 2, but Bang the Drum Slowly is one of the best fictional baseball movies ever made. “From here on in, I rag nobody.”
Long long ago, in a galaxy far far away, I died and came back as James Earl Jones.