Excellent Movie about Baseball and Life.

Rating: 9/10 (18 April 2002)

This is a well made and well acted movie. Baseball and the love for it, can get into your very soul. Anyone who has ever played the game for any length of time and gained any proficiency in it, can identify with Jim Morris and his round about trip to the "BIGS". To walk into a Major league locker room for the firt time and see a jersey with your own name on it, has to be one of the few top highlights of life for a person who loves the game and its beauty and poetry. The story is well told once it get started. The beginning and ending with the fable of the nuns detracted from the real story being told. Take that "byline" out and it is a 10. Dennis Quaid is very believable as a ball player and the kids on the highschool team were very well typecast. I got goosebumps many times throughout the movie. It is a clean wholesome story that deserves to be told. I would highly recommend it. My other favorite baseball movies are the all time best in my opinion, The Natural and of course Field of Dreams. For the Love of The Game was a notch or two down. The Rookie is definitely a first tier baseball and life movie.