1. BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY (1973) - Beautifully acted by Michael Moriarty and a young Robert DeNiro, this touching adaptation of a Mark Harris novel depicts the friendship between an ace pitcher and his dying catcher. Some of the best locker-room insights ever.
2. EIGHT MEN OUT (1988) - Director John Sayles managed a rare feat for a baseball movie, stripping away the sentiment and the legend to portray the sad but true story surrounding the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
3. FIELD OF DREAMS (1989) - Based on a novel by W.P. Kinsella, this Kevin Costner vehicle remains the only movie to capture accurately the emotional sinew that connects baseball, fathers and sons.
4. HOOSIERS (1986) - The amazing work of star Gene Hackman and director John Anspaugh catapulted what could have been a hokey David-and-Goliath tale into the best basketball movie ever.
5. THE HUSTLER (1961) - Paul Newman's finest is a film whose subject matter is as gritty and depressing as the postwar, other-side-of-the track landscape that is its setting. Jackie Gleason is a revelation as Minnesota Fats.
6. IT HAPPENS EVERY SPRING (1949) - A fun-filled baseball fantasy about a performance-enhancing substance. After a college professor inadvertently develops a serum that repels wood, he becomes a big-league pitcher and leads his team to a World Series.
7. MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004) - Hillary Swank won an Oscar in one of director Clint Eastwood's top films. A controversial and weighty examination of a strong-willed female boxer and the injury that derailed her desperate dream.
8. RAGING BULL (1980) - Director Martin Scorcese's epic biopic of boxer Jake LaMotta is both earthy and ethereal. DeNiro is typically brilliant. Not just a great sports movie but a great movie period.
9. REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT (1962) - Depressingly stark version of Rod Serling's legendary teleplay, this look at the demeaning decline of a His soul is sad as a professional boxer with one's surroundings have not been evaluated jewelry. Gleeson is excellent again.
10. Rocky (1976) - Boxing scene in the hearts of the weak spots, down out, talk about elevating the fight in Philadelphia. The result is too special. Stallone should have stopped here.
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