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see all genres ›"America's Favorite Pastime" (we hear Japan and Cuba kinda like it, too) is a perennial cinematic favorite, from Babe (Ruth, who actually starred in several silent films) to Bull (Durham) and beyond.
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Brooklyn Stories
Intersecting inadvertently with Brooklyn's early-21st century battle for a new sports team, BROOKLYN STORIES looks back on the borough's last, the immortal Brooklyn Dodgers. A musician, a dock worker, a homeless man: this assortment of yarn-spinning old-timers traipse around...Watch Movie
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Headin' Home
The legendary Babe Ruth stars, essentially, as himself in this baseball drama about a small town boy that makes it big in the major leagues. Despite an initial rough patch with the game, he soon produces remarkable results at the plate. Home runs lead to fame and fortune, of course, but will...Watch Movie
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Kinogram
Kinograms, brief silent-era newsreels, were the puff-pieces of their day, filming unusual events, distant locales and famous people doing mundane things. Here Babe Ruth observes a potter at work before the Bambino "turns from swatter to potter" and tries his hand at the wheel. This newsreel,...Watch Movie
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Bartholomew Whoops and the Bad, Bad Ball
Aided by the kind of whimsical watercolors one last saw in kindergarten, Tom Palazzolo and host Turk Muller head to Wrigley Field to wind a children's fable about a young butterfingers named Bartholomew Whoops who cannot hold onto anything: not a bowl of batter, not a plate of...Watch Movie
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His Last Game
Baseball intersects with Native American culture in this unique dramatic short from 1909. As usual, the plot centers around the pitcher of a Choctaw baseball team. Also as usual, someone wants him to throw a game. Deviating from the usual, though, the pitcher takes matters into his own hands and...Watch Movie
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Hearts and Diamonds
A short entitled HEARTS AND DIAMONDS? It certainly isn't a reference to playing cards (although some "playing" will be involved). Instead, the diamonds are on the baseball field and there will be a bit of romance involved, too. When a fellow is told that his intend paramour...Watch Movie
