Before I begin, I had trouble placing this, since it is a movie, but it covers sports in a general feel, so if needed, it can be relocated to the Sports section.

Anyways, I'm watching AMC since Field of Dreams is on. Everytime I watch this movie, I always see how this movie did it right. They made a movie about being a fan of baseball, how it was to love the game and how it was a bonding experience between father and son. My dad loved baseball, as well as basketball, and had the privliedge to chaplain for several minor league baseball teams among others. Over the years, I've had a love/hate relationship with baseball, since I always sucked at it and never had the desire that he had to play the game, but I was still a fan of watching.

Almost every movie I have ever seen about sports almost always follows the same general formula about a down and out team overcoming the odds to finally realize they have what it takes to win it all. Outside of 'Dreams and "The Sandlot", every sports movie does this. When someone recommended "Remember the Titans", I couldn't be less enthused after watching that garbage.

But each time I watch this movie, I get a little emotional, since it truly is a leap of faith towards something that I feel built connection between a father and son. It was more than a game, it was a bonding experience. Even after 20 years, this movie stands alone as way sports was meant to be shown, through the eyes of a fan.

"The Natural" is an ok movie, if you like Robert Redford, which I don't. The supporting cast is also very good, and it somewhat follows the outline of most sports movies, except for the fact that he hits a home run as the visiting team and he wins the Series...yeah...that bothered me/.

I like the "Sandlot" too, I consider it right behind Field of Dreams, which is funny since it always gets downplayed as a kid's movie, if anything people from the 50's-60's would enjoy this, since it is more of a coming of age story with sports written around it.

"Baseketball" is a guilty pleasure of mine, one of my favorite comedies, however it's not supposed to be considered a sports movie classic, I'd leave it more as a comedy.

I haven't seen "Bang the Drum Slowly" all the way through, so I can't comment there.

Raging Bull is a good movie, but depressing. Jake La Motta was completely honest about himself when he wrote the book and told Scorsese to do the same, which ended up not only being a great sports movie, but an accurate bio pic, one of the very few that stays true.

I like The Wrestler, but it's not like it moved me or anything...I mean some of the things Randy the Ram did just made me feel less sympathedic towards him. Rourke was awesome though, he definately deserved the Oscar.