{"id":5031,"date":"2010-03-28T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T14:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2010-03-28T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T14:03:09","slug":"on-baseball-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5031","title":{"rendered":"On Baseball Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is here, the start of a new baseball season is at hand.<\/p>\n<p>This year feels auspicious.  The Cubs :cubs: are having a solid spring.  Who knows what the coming season will hold?  Could this be the year?<\/p>\n<p>Such is the hope of the Cubs fan. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Instead of ruminating on the coming season, let&#8217;s talk baseball movies.  As in, what are my top five?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Natural<\/b><br \/>Roy Cobb, the greatest there ever was.  The music, the performances, just the <i>feel<\/i>.  It&#8217;s magical, even if Wrigley never ever looked like that. \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li><b>Eight Men Out<\/b><br \/>The Black Sox scandal of 1919, based on Eliot Asinof&#8217;s book.<\/li>\n<li><b>Field of Dreams<\/b><br \/><i>The Natural<\/i> looks at the game and its magic from inside.  <i>Eight Men Out<\/i> looks at the game itself.  <i>Field of Dreams<\/i> is about the <i>meaning<\/i> of the game.<\/li>\n<li><b>61*<\/b><br \/>Tom Jane (<i>The Punisher<\/i>) as Mickey Mantle, Barry Pepper as Roger Maris, and the home run chase of 1961.  The film doesn&#8217;t hit a wrong note, and it can be surprisingly moving.<\/li>\n<li><b>A League of Their Own<\/b><br \/>The story of the women&#8217;s baseball league of the 1940s.  It&#8217;s just <i>fun<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There we go, the current top five.  Compare to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1441\">the list I made three years ago<\/a>.  A few differences here and there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is here, the start of a new baseball season is at hand. This year feels auspicious. The Cubs :cubs: are having a solid spring. Who knows what the coming season will hold? Could this be the year? Such is the hope of the Cubs fan. \ud83d\ude09 Instead of ruminating on the coming season, let&#8217;s<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5031\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Baseball Movies&#8221;<\/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":[92],"tags":[4081],"class_list":["post-5031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-baseball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031","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=5031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}