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Sports books made into films/TV series: Baseball

Films based on books set in the world of Baseball (so far the list includes only MLB, but is intended for all baseball films/books).

No. level Film Date Director Country Source Work Author Date Type
1 MLB Death on the Diamond 1934 Edward Sedgwick image:MiniUnitedStatesFlag.jpg United States Death on the Diamond: A Baseball Mystery Story Cortland Fitzsimmons 1934 Novel
2 MLB The Babe Ruth Story 1948 Roy Del Ruth image:MiniUnitedStatesFlag.jpg United States The Babe Ruth Story Babe Ruth & Bob Considine 1948 Autobiography
3 MLB Fear Strikes Out 1957 Robert Mulligan image:MiniUnitedStatesFlag.jpg United States Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story Jim Piersall 1955 Autobiography
4 MLB Damn Yankees! 1958 George Abbott & Stanley Donen image:MiniUnitedStatesFlag.jpg United States The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant Douglass Wallop 1954 Novel
5 MLB It's Good to Be Alive 1974 Michael Landon image:MiniUnitedStatesFlag.jpg United States It's Good to Be Alive Roy Campanella 1959 Autobiography
6 MLB Ball Four (TV series) 1976 Nick Havinga & Peter Lewis & Jay Sandrich image:MiniUnitedStatesFlag.jpg United States Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues Jim Bouton 1969 Autobiography
7 MLB The Natural 1984 Barry Levinson image:MiniUnitedStatesFlag.jpg United States The Natural Bernard Malamud 1952 Novel
8 MLB Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles image:MiniUnitedStatesFlag.jpg United States Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series Eliot Asinof 1963 Nonfiction
9 MLB players Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson image:MiniUnitedStatesFlag.jpg United States Shoeless Joe W.P. Kinsella 1982 Novel
10 MLB The Fan 1996 Tony Scott image:MiniUnitedStatesFlag.jpg United States The Fan Peter Abrahams 1995 Novel
11 MLB For the Love of the Game 1999 Sam Raimi image:MiniUnitedStatesFlag.jpg United States For Love of the Game Michael Shaara 1991 Novel
12 MLB Fever Pitch * 2005 Farrelly Brothers image:MiniUnitedStatesFlag.jpg United States Fever Pitch Nick Hornby 1992 Novel
  • The book ‘’Fever Pitch’‘ has been made into two films, one using the same sport as is mentioned in the book (Fever Pitch), soccer/or Football (non-USA use of the term), and one which uses MLB as the sport. The book, and the original movie, is about a fan of the Arsenal F.C. team (which plays soccer, otherwise known in most of the world as football), while the second movie, the one in this list, deals with a fan of the Boston Red Sox, a baseball (MLB) team.

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