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Film · Coming of age (film) · Sports (film) · Coming of age · Sports

You play ball like a girl!

The Sandlot · 1993

★ 3.6

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

The Green Fields of the Mind · 1977

★ 3.4

Film · Sports (film) · Romantic comedy (film) · Sports · Romantic comedy

Making love is like hitting a baseball: you just gotta relax and concentrate.

Bull Durham · 1988

★ 2.9

Film · Biography (film) · Biography

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

Moneyball · 2011

★ 2.2

Film · Crime (film) · Drama (film) · Crime · Drama

What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man...a man stands alone at a plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Looks, throws, catches, hustles. Part of one big team. Bats himself the live-long day, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and so on. If his team don't field...what is he? You follow me? No one.

The Untouchables · 1987

★ 2.0

Film · Sports (film) · Drama (film) · Sports · Drama

The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

Field of Dreams · 1989

★ 1.9

Film · Comedy (film) · Western (film) · Comedy · Western

No, I like baseball. I just never understood how you guys can spend so much time discussing it. I mean, I've been to games, but I don't memorize who played third base for Pittsburgh in 1960.

City Slickers · 1991

★ 1.9

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

1995

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

1970

★ 1.8

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

1939

★ 1.1