Throwback Thursday: Movie time

August 13, 2026 · 0 comments

If you wanted to describe my main interests with a Venn diagram, there would be one circle for movies and one for baseball, so the intersection would be baseball movies.

Add a sliver of one of my favorite authors, Joe Posnanski, and you come up with this series of his blog posts counting down his take on the best (and worst) 75 flicks on the national pastime. I know many readers will disagree with his rankings, just as they did with his excellent book,  Baseball 100.

Here’s what we have so far:

I probably could have waited until his series was done, but I wanted to post something for Throwback Thursday so here you go.

Baseball = Best Sports Movies — a staff-created list from Mid-Continent Public Library | Mid-Continent Public Library | BiblioCommons

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