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"For Love of the Game" - 4/26/2009 10:45:10 PM

KG Erwin

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This is my third-favorite baseball movie, as it affects me on a couple of different levels. I can identify with Billy Chapel on a personal level, making dumb-as* decisions and trying to make good with the love of your life.

On the baseball level, it's obvious that Kevin Costner is a junkie of the game, and apart from "Field of Dreams", wanted to put himself INTO the game. I think he pulled it off well.

I am a hopeless sentimentalist, so this movie pulls all the necessary strings for me, but it doesn't sink into outright fantasy. It is real enough to be believable. I particularly love the scenes in which Chapel is thinking out loud to the opposing batters. Heck, I subconciously do this when managing a PS game, so it makes me feel less geeky and reassures me that I haven't totally lost my sanity.

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RE: "For Love of the Game" - 4/27/2009 1:50:41 AM

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KG,
I agree with you on every level. Kevin Costner is a junkie of the game and actually made every pitch. I'm sure some things were computer enhanced, but I also loved watching this move..... all six times so far.
Don

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RE: "For Love of the Game" - 4/27/2009 3:04:54 PM

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Hey KG,

Now that you have said it is your third favorite I want to know your top 5 :)
Here's my top 5 that I watch over and over again.

1. The Natural
2. A League of their own
3. Field of dreams
4. Eight men out
5. 61*

I also watch Ken Burns Baseball at least once a year.

Here's a few that have come out in the past couple of years that you might have missed.

American Pastime
The Final Season

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RE: "For Love of the Game" - 4/27/2009 5:28:03 PM

KG Erwin

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My present top 5:

1. The Natural
2. Field of Dreams
3. For Love of the Game
4. 61*
5. The Bingo Long Travelling All Stars

For documentaries:

1. When It Was A Game (3 DVDs)
2. The Ghosts of Flatbush -- the Brooklyn Dodgers

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RE: "For Love of the Game" - 4/27/2009 7:20:48 PM

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I would like to add mine if that is all right.

Current Top 5
1. Bull Durham (1988)
2. Bingo Long and the Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
3. Eight Men Out (1988)
4. The Bad News Bears (1976)
5. Long Gone (1987) � William L. Peterson, Virginia Madsen, Henry Gibson, Teller (of Penn & Teller). Peterson plays Stud Cantrell, a player-manager of the Tampico Stogies, a mythical 1950's minor league team. The film captures a realistic feel for the old Bible belt with special attention to detail. Well worth seeing, and yes, Teller does quite a bit of talking. Made for cable, so I am not sure if it counts.

Top 5 from my childhood days
1. Murder At the World Series (1977) � TV-movie filmed in Houston's Astrodome, had my beloved 70�s Astros in the World Series, showed actual game footage and that is pretty much all I remember! From ABC�s archives - (ABC, 3/20/1977, 120 mins). A troubled young man, bent on avenging the Houston Astros baseball team�s rejection of him, plots a bizarre kidnapping during the final two games of the World Series in Houston and places the lives of five innocent women in jeopardy. The original title for this movie: �The Woman in Box 359.� Note � it is a terrible movie except for the games scenes of the Houston Astros.

2. It Happens Every Spring (1949) � Ray Milland stars as a college physics professor, who accidentally invents a formula that, when applied to a baseball, makes it impossible to hit.

3. Kill the Umpire (1950) � William Bendix as an umpire "Two-Call Johnson" (the result of double vision brought about by an overdose of eye drop medicine). Funny chase sequence in the end, fun little comedy.

4. One In A Million (1978) � TV-movie starring LeVar Burton as Ron LeFlore. From CBS archive - (CBS, 9/26/1978, 120 mins). The true story of baseball star Ron LeFlore (based on his autobiography, �Breakout�) from his days as a street-corner punk with no future to his days behind bars on a petty robbery conviction and his ultimate once-in-a-lifetime chance with the Detroit Tigers, where he became an outstanding baseball player. A few cast notes Billy Martin (Himself), James Butsicaris (Himself), John McKee (Ralph Houk), Al Kaline (Himself), Norm Cash (Himself), Jim Northrup (Himself), Bill Freeman (Himself).

5. The Kid from Left Field (1979) � Yes the classic Gary Coleman and Robert Guillaume TV-movie remake filmed at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium. From NBC archives - (NBC, 9/30/1979, 120 mins). Gary Coleman in his TV movie debut as the star of this remake of the 1953 movie with Dan Dailey and Anne Bancroft, is a bat boy who guides the San Diego Padres to the World Series with the secret help of his dad, a baseball has-been who now sells refreshments in the stands. This is the first of three TV movies in which Coleman costars with Robert Guillaume.

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RE: "For Love of the Game" - 4/27/2009 8:12:06 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: prisonerno6

Top 5 from my childhood days
1. Murder At the World Series (1977) � TV-movie filmed in Houston's Astrodome, had my beloved 70�s Astros in the World Series, showed actual game footage and that is pretty much all I remember! From ABC�s archives - (ABC, 3/20/1977, 120 mins). A troubled young man, bent on avenging the Houston Astros baseball team�s rejection of him, plots a bizarre kidnapping during the final two games of the World Series in Houston and places the lives of five innocent women in jeopardy. The original title for this movie: �The Woman in Box 359.� Note � it is a terrible movie except for the games scenes of the Houston Astros.

3. Kill the Umpire (1950) � William Bendix as an umpire "Two-Call Johnson" (the result of double vision brought about by an overdose of eye drop medicine). Funny chase sequence in the end, fun little comedy.

5. The Kid from Left Field (1979) � Yes the classic Gary Coleman and Robert Guillaume TV-movie remake filmed at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium. From NBC archives - (NBC, 9/30/1979, 120 mins). Gary Coleman in his TV movie debut as the star of this remake of the 1953 movie with Dan Dailey and Anne Bancroft, is a bat boy who guides the San Diego Padres to the World Series with the secret help of his dad, a baseball has-been who now sells refreshments in the stands. This is the first of three TV movies in which Coleman costars with Robert Guillaume.

1. sounds like typical made for TV movie fare. I saw 3. once when I was a kid. That movie was great! And I remember 5. from my pre-teen days, as well. But then again I also remember my friend tricking me into trading him my Lyman Bostock card and then telling me that Bostock was dead. Bastard.

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RE: "For Love of the Game" - 4/27/2009 10:29:50 PM

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Addendum for the movie: you can watch it in streaming format on this site http://www.fancast.com/

They also have "Bull Durham" and a few other baseball movies. I mention this because I don't yet own the DVD.

This doesn't appear to be some sort of "pirate" site, as they also have hundreds of episodes of various TV series available.

Postscript: Hmm -- it seems that Fancast has taken down both "For Love of the Game" and "Bull Durham". Interesting, huh? Are the movie moguls giving me a personal slap on the wrist? "If you wanna watch it again, buy the DVD!"

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RE: "For Love of the Game" - 5/4/2009 7:07:33 PM

KG Erwin

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A strange turn of events is noted above. I am somehow thinking that the whole "free broadcast" thing is just another way to sell DVDs/Blu Rays. Guerrilla marketing? Clever, aren't they?

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