Baseball: The Movie

Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises.

Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and mythologizes all it touches, has long been the ideal medium to canonize this aspirational idea.

Baseball: The Movie is the first definitive history of this film genre that was born in 1915 and remains artistically and culturally vital more than a century later. Writer and critic Noah Gittell sheds light on well-known classics and overlooked gems, exploring how baseball cinema creates a stage upon which the American ideal is born, performed, and repeatedly redefined.

Traversing history and mythmaking, cynicism and nostalgia, this thoroughly researched book takes listeners on a multifaceted tour of baseball on film.

©2024 Noah Gittell (P)2024 Dreamscape Media

I Loved It!

I am a huge fan of baseball movies and this book delivered in every respect. I loved the chapters on the movies I haven’t seen and just as much as those that I have.

Very enjoyable

I absolutely enjoyed this book. Great detail, I really enjoyed the deep dive into baseball movies. This is a must read/listen to. I highly recommend it.