In this episode, we join forces with The Popped Cast's Josh Goldman for a special crossover episode in which we break down the best baseball movies of all time. This episode originally aired on The Popped Cast, which you can find wherever you get your podcasts. Notes from the original podcast are below.
In Episode 40, Josh welcomes guests Zac Crippen (the co-founder of the Vernacular Podcast Network, co-host of Vernacular Podcast and co-host of Vernacular’s sports podcast The Line-Up) and Peter Laclede (co-host of Vernacular’s sports podcast The Line-Up), for a very special episode where we rank a selection of 15 baseball movies from worst to first to celebrate the start of the 2019 Major League Baseball season.
In no particular order, we ranked Field of Dreams, The Sandlot, The Bad News Bears, A League of Their Own, Bull Durham, Moneyball, The Natural, Fever Pitch, Major League, Rookie of the Year, Little Big League, Angels in the Outfield, For Love of the Game, 42 and The Rookie.
We individually ranked each film on a scale of 1-10 in three categories. 1. Overall enjoyment of the film. 2. Overall quality of the film. 3. Baseball accuracy. We then averaged everyone’s score to get a total for each movie out of a possible 30 points. The film with the lowest score would be #15 and the film with the highest score would be #1.
The results might surprise you - the top 5 were separated by just 3 and a half points.
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E86 The Disastros and the Great Baseball Scandal of 2020
E85 Mr. Rivera Goes to Washington, New Overtime Rules, and Jerry Jones is Weird
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E81 Dog Days of Summer, New York teams, and Deadline Moves
E79 The Great American League Preview
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E74 Drafting the Best Sports Moments of 2018
E73 The Definitive Bowl Game Watchability Rankings
E71 NFL Week 10 "Dime a Dozen"
E70 Surprises of the NFL Season (and October baseball)
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E68 October Baseball and Game 163s
E67 Butler's Demands and NBA Islands
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