Here's my top 5:
1. Caddyshack
2. Moneyball
3. Miracle
4. Major League
5. Coach Carter
1. Caddyshack
2. Moneyball
3. Miracle
4. Major League
5. Coach Carter
Favorite Sports Movies
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Hoosiers, Rudy, The Natural, Major League, North Dallas Forty
Love that movie! Robin Williams and Kurt Russell. When they're trying to secretly watch the game during dinner... "GOD! What a catch!"... and, the wives even know the teams suck- Atlanta/Minnesota.
Not in any order
Rocky
Tin Cup
The Natural
The Wrestler
Bad News Bears
Rocky
Tin Cup
The Natural
The Wrestler
Bad News Bears
Just got 2 , Field of dreams and Hoosiers. Could watch Hoosiers every week if my wife or one of my kids would watch it with me.
Slap shot
Bull Durham
A League of their own
Tin cup
Field of Dreams
Dodgeball
Rocky
Eight Men Out
Bull Durham
A League of their own
Tin cup
Field of Dreams
Dodgeball
Rocky
Eight Men Out
Southpaw
Any Given Sunday
Million Dollar Baby
Hoop Dreams
Trouble with the Curve
Love and Basketball
Draft Day
Brian Song
Bang the Drum Slowly
Cinderella Man
The Hustler
Any Given Sunday
Million Dollar Baby
Hoop Dreams
Trouble with the Curve
Love and Basketball
Draft Day
Brian Song
Bang the Drum Slowly
Cinderella Man
The Hustler
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Lots of good ones listed above. Here are ten good ones - to me, anyway.
Hoosiers
Moneyball
The Natural
Major League
We are Marshall
Cinderella Man
The Fighter (with Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg?)
Chariots of Fire
Rudy
Miracle (on Ice) (US Olympic hockey win, against very long odds, when US still played amateurs against Soviet and other nation's pros)
Honorable mention: Blind Side
Hoosiers
Moneyball
The Natural
Major League
We are Marshall
Cinderella Man
The Fighter (with Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg?)
Chariots of Fire
Rudy
Miracle (on Ice) (US Olympic hockey win, against very long odds, when US still played amateurs against Soviet and other nation's pros)
Honorable mention: Blind Side
Little surprised there was no Space Jam mention. Maybe too much of a stretch to call it a sports movie, though.
Some great movies already listed that I won't repeat. Some older ones:
Knute Rockne - All American (with Ronald Reagan as the Gipper)
Jim Thorpe - All American
Damn Yankees
Fear Strikes Out - The Jimmy Piersall Story
It's Good To Be Alive - The Roy Campanella Story
Blue Chips
The Hustler
Thunder In Carolina (Stock Car Racing)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
I'll appeal to the judges on these:
Any Which Way But Loose and
Any Which Way You Can (Bare Knuckle Fighting)
Knute Rockne - All American (with Ronald Reagan as the Gipper)
Jim Thorpe - All American
Damn Yankees
Fear Strikes Out - The Jimmy Piersall Story
It's Good To Be Alive - The Roy Campanella Story
Blue Chips
The Hustler
Thunder In Carolina (Stock Car Racing)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
I'll appeal to the judges on these:
Any Which Way But Loose and
Any Which Way You Can (Bare Knuckle Fighting)
I can't believe I forgot to add Blue Chips to my list. Starring Shaq, Penny Hardway and Sean Miller. Whoops, I meant Nick Nolte.
Miller can't be Nolte, because Nolte's character actually won something significant in the movie.
The Wrestler is on my list as well! Great movie, not just a great sports movie!
No to the Clint movies, unless you include Hard Times w/Charles Bronson.
Never saw Fear Strikes Out, but read the book when much younger.
The Hustler is an all time great film!
"Eddie, you owe me money!" "Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool"!
