Baseball : the movie

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"Featuring Field of Dreams, The Bad News Bears, A League of Their Own, and more: a probing and entertaining work at the intersection of pop culture and sports Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film...

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ISBN:

9781637272640

Description:

xxiii, 279 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

The pride of the Yankees and the Stratton Story
The Jackie Robinson story
The Babe Ruth story and Angels in the outfield
Fear strikes out and damn Yankees
Bathroom break : the most popular team in baseball cinema
Bang the drum slowly
Bingo long and the traveling all-stars and motor kings
The bad news Bears
Beer run : the best baseball scenes in non-baseball movies
The natural and field of dreams
Eight men out and major league
Bull Durham
A league of their own
Bathroom break no 2 : is the Naked gun a baseball movie?
An investigation
The Sandlot
Rookie of the year
Little big league
Seventh-inning stretch : an interview with Richard Linklater
Moneyball and trouble with the curve
42 and Fences
Sugar
Faith-based baseball films
Epilogue : extra inning

LCCN:

2023053708

Control Number:

3334968

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