Best Baseball Movies List

Moneyball (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 213 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 87 | Earnings: $75.61M

Lead Role: Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, | Director: Bennett Miller,

Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.

Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

Aggregate Rating: 159 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 83 | Earnings: $3.37M

Lead Role: Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoechlin, Ryan Guzman, Zoey Deutch, | Director: Richard Linklater,

In 1980, a group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.

Sugar (2008)

Aggregate Rating: 154 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $1.08M

Lead Role: Algenis Perez Soto, Jose Rijo, Walki Cuevas, Santo Silvestre, | Director:

Dominican baseball star Miguel "Sugar" Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. minor-leagues.

Bull Durham (1988)

Aggregate Rating: 150 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $50.89M

Lead Role: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson, | Director: Ron Shelton,

A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.

A League of Their Own (1992)

Aggregate Rating: 149 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $107.46M

Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna, | Director: Penny Marshall,

Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.

Field of Dreams (1989)

Aggregate Rating: 148 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 57 | Earnings: $64.43M

Lead Role: Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan, | Director: Phil Alden Robinson,

An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come.

The Rookie (2002)

Aggregate Rating: 144 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 72 | Earnings: $75.60M

Lead Role: Dennis Quaid, J.D. Evermore, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez, | Director: John Lee Hancock,

A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.

All Square (2018)

Aggregate Rating: 141 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Michael Kelly, Jesse Ray Sheps, Josh Lucas, Pamela Adlon, | Director: John Hyams,

A down-on-his-luck bookie befriends an ex-girlfriend's son and begins taking bets on his youth league baseball games, creating chaos in the community.

Million Dollar Arm (2014)

Aggregate Rating: 130 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 56 | Earnings: $36.45M

Lead Role: Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Alan Arkin, Suraj Sharma, | Director: Craig Gillespie,

A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball.

Trouble with the Curve (2012)

Aggregate Rating: 130 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 58 | Earnings: $35.75M

Lead Role: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, | Director: Robert Lorenz,

A daughter tries to remedy her dysfunctional relationship with her ailing father, a decorated baseball scout by helping him in a recruiting trip which could be his last.

Monsters and Men (2018)

Aggregate Rating: 121 | Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $0.50M

Lead Role: Chanté Adams, Giuseppe Ardizzone, Nicole Beharie, Cara Buono, | Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green,

The aftermath of a police killing of a black man, told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.

Mr 3000 (2004)

Aggregate Rating: 114 | Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 57 | Earnings: $21.80M

Lead Role: Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett, Michael Rispoli, Brian White, | Director: Charles Stone III,

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.

The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)

Aggregate Rating: 111 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 49 | Earnings: $0.71M

Lead Role: Connie Nielsen, Paul Rudd, Shea Whigham, Sienna Miller, | Director: Ben Lewin,

A major league baseball player, Moe Berg, lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services.

Touching Home (2008)

Aggregate Rating: 110 | Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 52 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Ed Harris, Brad Dourif, Ishiah Benben, Kris Butler, | Director:

The true story about a father struggling to make amends with his twin sons as they pursue their dreams of professional baseball.

The Final Season (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 110 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 43 | Earnings: $1.16M

Lead Role: Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Jesse Henecke, | Director: David Mickey Evans,

Kent Stock disrupts his life to become coach of the Norway High School baseball team and try to lead them to victory.

Everyone's Hero (2006)

Aggregate Rating: 110 | Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 51 | Earnings: $14.52M

Lead Role: Jake T. Austin, Brian Dennehy, Whoopi Goldberg, Ritchie Allen, | Director:

A boy (Jake T. Austin) begins a grand journey to return Babe Ruth's baseball bat before the deciding game of the 1932 World Series comes to a close.

BASEketball (1998)

Aggregate Rating: 109 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 38 | Earnings: $6.94M

Lead Role: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar, Yasmine Bleeth, | Director: David Zucker,

Two childhood friends are pro athletes of a national sport called BASEketball, a hybrid of baseball and basketball, and must deal with a greedy businessman scheming against their team.

Where Hope Grows (2014)

Aggregate Rating: 107 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 41 | Earnings: $1.10M

Lead Role: Kristoffer Polaha, David DeSanctis, McKaley Miller, Michael Grant, | Director: Chris Dowling,

A baseball player whose professional career was cut short due to his personal problems is suddenly awakened and invigorated by a young-man with Down syndrome who works at the local grocery store.

Looking for Kitty (2004)

Aggregate Rating: 103 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 43 | Earnings: $0.00M

Lead Role: Max Baker, Connie Britton, Edward Burns, Craig Carlisle, | Director: Edward Burns,

A high school baseball coach (Krumholtz) and a down-on-his-luck private investigator (Burns) form a bond as they scour New York City for the coach's wife, who's run away with a second-rate ...

How Do You Know (2010)

Aggregate Rating: 102 | Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 46 | Earnings: $30.21M

Lead Role: Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, Jack Nicholson, | Director: James L. Brooks,

After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.