Baseball movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant baseball movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, inspirational, feel good, humorous, entertaining and interesting films and TV shows about / with baseball, baseball coach, redemption, underdog, mentor, dialogue, catastrophe, childhood, storytelling and unlikely friendships plots mostly in Sport, Drama and Comedy genres shot in USA, Germany, India and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as baseball: The Rookie (2002), For Love of the Game (1999), 42 (2013), Pitch (2016), Rookie of the Year (1993), Major League (1989), Brewster's Millions (1985), Trouble with the Curve (2012), Million Dollar Arm (2014), The Sandlot (1993).
Best films
New films
| A Clean Sweep (2022) | 8.2 | |
| LTNS (2023) | 7.2 | |
| Tomorrow's Game (2022) | 7.7 | |
| Oblivion Battery (2024) | 7.5 | |
| Night Swim (2024) | 4.7 |
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, inspirational, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, preschool ...
Plot:
baseball, underdog, baseball coach, father son relationship, high school, hopes, major league, baseball player, following a dream, rags to riches, teacher, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 2002, 80s, 90s
Place:
texas, midwest, austin texas, usa, orlando florida ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
Style:
sentimental, touching, inspirational, realistic, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
baseball, love story, baseball coach, loneliness, unlikely friendships, storytelling, looking for love, love and romance, athlete's life, training, hopes, major league ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
usa, detroit, new york, london, bronx new york city ...
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108K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The film follows the innovative Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey, the ...
Style:
sentimental, period piece, touching, factual, intense ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
racism, baseball, athlete and trainer, african american, rise to the top, racial segregation, civil rights, athlete's life, against the odds, biopic, black history, justice ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place:
africa, new york, usa, pasadena california, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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7K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The dramatic and inspirational story of a young pitcher who becomes the first woman to play Major League Baseball.
Style:
uplifting, inspirational, suspense, slang, captivating ...
Plot:
baseball, woman, lifestyle, dishonesty, rivalry, friendship, father daughter relationship, ambition, adaptation, destiny, baseball coach, black cast ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
12-year-old Henry Rowengartner, whose late father was a minor league baseball player, grew up dreaming of playing baseball, despite his physical shortcomings. After Henry's arm is broken while trying to catch a baseball at school, the tendon in ...
Style:
feel good, exciting, lighthearted, freeze frame, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
baseball, childhood, children, underdog, hopes, child protagonist, sport team, contests and competitions, mentor, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, year 1993, 90s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer climate -- but only a losing season will make that possible, which should be easy given the misfits she's hired. ...
Style:
funny, humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
baseball, underdog, hot dog, major league, rivalry, professional sports, baseball coach, ambition, rise to the top, follow your dream, contests and competitions, against the odds ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
miami, ohio, florida, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
baseball, rags to riches, baseball player, millionaire, farce, hotel, inheritance, lawyer, childhood, photographer, black, heir ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.
Style:
inspirational, entertaining, touching, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
baseball, father daughter relationship, blind character, aging, career, parents and children, love and romance, happy ending, lawyer, kids and family, pitcher, good versus evil ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, atlanta georgia, georgia, california ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, India, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein (Jon Hamm) dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, touching, motivational, feel good ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
baseball, underdog, culture clash, cricket, biopic, rags to riches, athlete's life, fish out of water, against the odds, rivalry, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, usa, new jersey, california, boston
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113K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, teen, sweet, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
baseball, friendship, childhood, coming of age, dog, adolescence, boy, bullying, small town, child, children, kids and family ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1962, 90s, 50s ...
Place:
utah, california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
Style:
inspirational, feel good, sweet, sad, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick
Plot:
baseball, hearing voices, regret, farmer, ghost, farm, small town, time travel, happy ending, doctor, magic realism, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century, 70s
Place:
iowa, minnesota, usa, boston
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5K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Dominican Republic
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Sugar is a 2008 sports drama film directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. It follows the story of Miguel Santos, a. k. a. Sugar (Algenis Perez Soto), a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro de Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, sentimental, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, immigrant, athlete, culture clash, follow your dream, rags to riches, fish out of water, american dream, against the odds, character study, rookie, hopes ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
iowa, africa, new york, puerto rico, kansas ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Terry Gannon Jr. was an All Star softball player until life threw her a couple curve balls: a baby, a lost college scholarship and a loser for a husband. After striking out on her own, Terry and her son Danny move in with her estranged father, Terry ...
Style:
sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental
Plot:
baseball, single mother, family relations, single parent, parents and children, sport team, ambition, misfit, contests and competitions, youth, athlete and trainer, ex athlete ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Style:
inspirational, intense, talky, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
baseball, underdog, baseball coach, coach, youth, childhood, competition, baseball player, unlikely friendships, sport team, motorcycle, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1976, 1930s, 80s
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, los angeles, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The great Chicago White Sox team of 1919 is the saddest team to ever win a pennent. The team is bitter at their penny pincher owner, Charles Comiskey, and at their own teammates. Gamblers take advantage of this opportunity to offer some players $ to ...
Style:
realistic, inspirational, factual, atmospheric, talky ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
baseball, gambling, friendship, major league, scandal, historical figure, sport team, society, ambition, contests and competitions, baseball coach, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, 1910s, year 1919, edwardian era ...
Place:
chicago, usa, cincinnati ohio, boston, california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
Style:
sexy, teen, independent film, homoerotic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, college, friendship between men, coming of age, college life, party, male objectification, male nudity, mean girl, male friendship, relationships, youth ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 2010s, year 1980, 70s ...
Place:
texas, usa, california
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504K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
Style:
inspirational, feel good, clever, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
baseball, mathematics, underdog, success, rise to the top, strategy, business, entrepreneurship, based on real people, biopic, entrepreneur, motivation ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, year 2002, 2000s, 80s ...
Place:
boston, california, usa, san francisco, bay area ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Bobby Stano had everything going for him. Fresh out of high school, he was signed to the majors, had a beautiful girlfriend, everything was looking up. That is, until he and his friends get into a fight with a neighboring gang. The confrontation ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, sentimental, suspenseful, dramatic ...
Plot:
baseball, baseball team, prison, ex convict, ex athlete, friendship, redemption, family relations, husband wife relationship, getting home, reputation, second chance ...
Time:
year 1999, year 2017
Place:
new york, bronx new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing career included seven American League ...
Style:
scary, uplifting, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, new york yankees, baseball coach, baseball player, athlete, racing, al capone, historical figure, biopic, couples, couple relations, human spirit ...
Time:
1940s, year 1992, 1920s, 1910s, 1930s ...
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, chicago, new orleans, baltimore ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo (Albert Brooks) gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska (Brendan Fraser). Soon, the ...
Style:
humorous, satirical, light, entertaining, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
baseball, father son relationship, mentor, lone hero, adaptation, storytelling, power relations, friendship, athlete's life, self discovery, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
new york, latin america, usa, mexico, nebraska ...
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16K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Aging baseball star who goes by the nickname, Mr. 3000, finds out many years after retirement that he didn't quite reach 3,000 hits. Now at age 47 he's back to try and reach that goal.
Style:
inspirational, humorous, stylized, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, redemption, underdog, hopes, friendship, ambition, athlete's life, rivalry, contests and competitions, journalism, major league, racing ...
Time:
year 2004, 90s, 2000s
Place:
milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin, new jersey, california, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When relaxed and charming Ben Wrightman meets workaholic Lindsey Meeks she finds him sweet and charming, they hit it off and when it is winter Ben can spend every waking hour with Lindsey, but when summer comes around the corner Lindsey discovers ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, entertaining, sweet, cute ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, teacher, obsession, happy ending, contests and competitions, relationship problems, women, baseball coach, dating, career woman, workaholic, fall in love ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2003, 2000s, 80s, year 1980 ...
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
True story of Kent Stock, who in the early 90's, gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach as the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, sincere, historical drama ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
baseball, hopes, high school sports, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, one last chance, youth, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2007, 90s
Place:
iowa, usa
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. With the aid of a bat cut from a lightning struck tree, Hobbs ...
Style:
inspirational, romantic, realistic, touching, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
baseball, underdog, femme fatale, baseball player, attempted murder, haunted by the past, comeback, villain, death of father, reporter, lightning, baseball coach ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1939
Place:
new york, usa, chicago, baltimore
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team
Style:
realistic, emotional, christian film, captivating, motivational ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
baseball, homecoming, rehabilitation, addiction, christian, support group, sport team, life is a bitch, hopes, redemption, starting over, athlete's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oklahoma city, oklahoma
Is relevant?
9K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Al Stump is a famous sports-writer chosen by Ty Cobb to co-write his official, authorized 'autobiography' before his death. Cobb, widely feared and despised, feels misunderstood and wants to set the record straight about 'the greatest ...
Style:
factual, intense, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
baseball, brutality, ghost writer, storytelling, biopic, underdog, dark hero, adaptation, lone hero, mentor, historical figure, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 50s, 1940s
Place:
detroit, georgia, usa, california, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Billy Wyatt (Harmon), a former high school and minor-league baseball baseball player receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later in his teens, his first love, Katie Chandler (Foster), has died. Wyatt ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
baseball, coming of age, love, memory, nostalgia, friendship, suicide, regret, summer, reminiscence, homecoming, friendship between men ...
Time:
80s, 1950s, 60s, 50s
Place:
new jersey, philadelphia
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36K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Style:
emotional, feel good, suspense, serious, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
baseball, underdog, gambling, poverty, children, brutality, redemption, adaptation, gang, gambling debt, baseball coach, gangster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago, detroit, usa, illinois, new jersey
Is relevant?
660
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
For the first time, Pete Young takes a risk - perhaps the only risk of his young life - when he applies for and lands his dream job as a batboy for the New York Empires. The problem is that his single mother, Lynne has no idea what he's up to. ...
Style:
feel good, serious, realistic, captivating
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
baseball, young heroes, family relations, wish come true, teenage life, against the odds, athlete's life, youth, rebelliousness, lifestyle, parents and children, sport team ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Henry & Me tells the courageous story of Jack (AUSTIN WILLIAMS), a brave young boy who is dealt a life changing blow. Low on confidence and filled with self-doubt, hope seems lost until a mysterious stranger named Henry (RICHARD GERE) ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, entertaining, heartfelt, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
baseball, new york yankees, children, boy, child, fighting illness, hopes, child protagonist, cancer, guardian angel, sports history, illness ...
Place:
new york
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