The best baseball movie ever made!

Rating: 10/10 (19 September 1998)

A wonderful story about the greatest game in the world, with all its various characters: wide eyed rookies, jaded veterans, corrupt owner, and good & bad hangers-on. One man's dream of playing the game,"the best there ever was in this game", takes many twists and turns. The game is treated with a reverence that is less common now than when the story is set,1939. Roy Hobbs is the perfect foil for the gamblers, sellouts and parasites that he is pitted against, albeit unwillingly. A must watch for any true fan of baseball!