Michael Cerami from Bleacher Nation watched all of the most popular baseball movies and clocked exactly how much time is spent playing baseball in all of them.
Here are his results...
Major League II (1994) – 45 minutes 14 seconds
Rookie of the Year (1993) – 44 minutes 4 seconds
Major League (1989) – 40 minutes 11 seconds
The Bad News Bears (1976) – 40 minutes 0 seconds
The Natural (1984) – 36 minutes 0 seconds
For the Love of the Game (1999) – 35 minutes 15 seconds
The Rookie (2001) – 33 minutes 52 seconds
42 (2013) – 30 minutes and 54 seconds
A League of Their Own (1992) – 28 minutes 30 seconds
Eight Men Out (1988) – 28 minutes 30 seconds
Angels in the Outfield (1994) – 28 minutes 3 seconds
Bull Durham (1988) – 26 minutes 30 seconds
61* (2001) – 25 minutes 0 seconds
Hardball (2001) – 22 minutes 30 seconds
Moneyball (2011) – 21 minutes 43 seconds
The Sandlot (1993) – 14 minutes 50 seconds
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) – 14 minutes 45 seconds
Field of Dreams (1989) – 10 minutes 20 seconds
Fever Pitch (2005) – 7 minutes 56 seconds
I'm apparently a sucker for a baseball flick, because I've seen all of them. This list also proves that the amount of baseball doesn't equate with the amount of cool.
I highlighted my favorites in bold. My all-time favorite is in second-to-last on this list.
