{"id":1441,"date":"2007-10-15T07:34:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T11:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2007-10-15T07:34:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T11:34:37","slug":"on-favorite-baseball-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"On Favorite Baseball Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the baseball season winding down — and my beloved Cubs out of the playoffs — I thought I’d fill the ample time until spring by naming off my top five baseball films of all time. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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  1. The Natural<\/i><\/li>\n
  2. Field of Dreams<\/i><\/li>\n
  3. A League of their Own<\/i><\/li>\n
  4. Pride of the Yankees<\/i><\/li>\n
  5. Eight Men Out<\/i><\/li>\n
  6. Bull Durham<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Yes, I have six baseball movies in my top five. Because there’s not a movie there I can do without.<\/p>\n

    Years ago when I’d heard that Michael Bishop’s Brittle Innings<\/i> — a novel about the Georgia minor leagues during World War II — was optioned for Hollywood, I was hoping for it. I’m not sure who I’d have cast for any of the roles a decade ago. I don’t know who I’d cast today. The casting for Jumbo Hank Clerval would have to be perfect<\/i>, though. I don’t know. People certainly would have been talking about it, though. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

    Favorite baseball movies, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    With the baseball season winding down — and my beloved Cubs out of the playoffs — I thought I’d fill the ample time until spring by naming off my top five baseball films of all time. \ud83d\ude42 The Natural Field of Dreams A League of their Own Pride of the Yankees Eight Men Out BullContinue reading “On Favorite Baseball Movies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4081,4106],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-film","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}