8 – The Bad News Bears. This 1976 comedy is the classic Cinderella story that so many others have been based on since. Ex major league washout Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) takes on a rag tag bunch of Little Leaguers with more fight in them then talent. Buttermaker quickly realizes the team’s large void of talent and brings in a couple of ringers to turn things around. These ringers include hard throwing female pitcher Amanda Whurlitzer and power hitting bad boy Kelly Leak. The plan works and the team comes within one run of winning the championship before losing to the dreaded Yankee’s. The movie became so popular that two lesser known sequels were made, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978.
Maria
March 31, 2016 at 7:13 am
I have all his books Bince gets the story told and facts are dead on truth . As a women I have learn a lot about sports just reading his book his books are well written they keep your interest right down to the last word on the last page A can’t put down books till you read them to the endy favorite is HERO really could Neva movie that would make the top ten movies , can’t wait to read he’s Live To Inspire coming in June. Vince thanks for giving good books to read your parents must be awful proud of you .
Chris
April 1, 2016 at 11:13 am
There is a movie that they used to run every April on Channel 43 called “It Happens Every Spring.” It was made in 1949, and it stars Ray Milland as a nerdy chemistry professor who is obsessed with baseball, and he accidentally discovers a chemical compound that makes any object the compound touches repel wood. So he becomes a pitcher, loads up the ball with the compound on every pitch, and no one can get a hit off of him, and he becomes a sensation.
It’s a fun movie with not-bad-for-1949 special effects, and is quite enjoyable if you don’t think about the plot gaps too hard. That movie belongs on this list.