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25 of the best baseball movies ever
December 24th,
Baseball is older than the movies themselves, and the first baseball movies featured well-recognized baseball players as the stars themselves; in many ways, they were our first movie stars. "Right Off the Bat," widely considered the first baseball flick ever made, came out in , the same year as the morally loathsome but cinematically groundbreaking "The Birth of a Nation," and it starred John "Mugsy" McGraw as himself. McGraw actually appeared in dozens of movies that decade. The film industry was trying to capture America, and nothing was more American than baseball.
In the more than years since, some of the most beloved movies made have been about baseball, and why not? Baseball's story is the story of our times, with heroes and villains, glory and scandal, triumph and failure, comedy and tragedy. It remains the most cinematic of our sports because it is, at its core, about human beings and their frailties and their glories. If baseball had never existed, the movies would have had to invent it.
And now taking a page out of the film industry's book, Major League Baseball brought "Field of Dreams" to life in Dyersville, Iowa, where the Yankees and White Sox played a gam
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