Our favorite baseball movies and TV episodes to watch
It’s a beautiful day for a baseball story — let’s watch two.
Prime Video’s television adaptation of A League of Their Own is now out, bringing the real All-American Girls Professional Baseball League to life once again. The original movie, starring Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, and Madonna, among many others, is also available to watch on Prime Video. Now’s a great time to revisit it.
The real MLB season is also starting to head into the home stretch. Even if most of the divisional races seem pretty much decided, it’s gearing up to be an exciting postseason after a busy trade deadline.
One work that I wanted to mention here, because it never got made: Spike Lee’s Jackie Robinson screenplay, based on the legendary Brooklyn Dodger’s autobiography. You can read it in full here — it’s quite unfortunate this movie never got made (and the far less interesting 42 did instead).
We’ve pulled together a list of our favorite baseball TV episodes and movies, beyond the two versions of A League of Their Own (both available on Prime Video).
The Simpsons season 3 episode 17
This classic from The Simpsons’ third season is an essential episode from the show’s early years. After Homer’s softball exploits (aided by a parody of The Natural) lead the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant’s softball team to the championship game, Mr. Burns brings in nine of the best baseball players in the world (voiced by themselves) as ringers to assure a win.
Written by legendary Simpsons scribe John Swartzwelder, “Homer at the Bat” is a hilarious, offbeat sports story that stands as one of the most memorable episodes of one of the most memorable shows ever made. The various ailments and misfortune that befall each of the nine ringers are unforgettable — my favorite
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