Field Of Dreams

More than any other sports, baseball sits highly on the throne of America. The heroic sport calls for fond memories from stacking tiny baseball figurines to betting large sums of money on the winning player. Behind every swing of the bat lies the recorded scores, broadcasted reports, tales, and legends that all American boys and girls hear. During the 1900s, baseball was everyone's favorite sport and source of entertainment. Films, documentaries and short stories rose to display the magical American love for baseball. In one case, W.P. Kinsella illustrates the prominent theme of love in the baseball fan favorite novel, “Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa” and its film adaption. Ray Kinsella, through his love for baseball and receiving support from his family, is transformed from a mundane farmer into a baseball hero that drives Archibald Wright into discovering a critical passion.

In the San Fernando Valley during the summer of 1962, Scotty Smalls is the new boy in the neighborhood seeking desperately to fit in. He would be welcomed on the local sandlot baseball team that practices every day which only has eight players. Smalls however can't play baseball on his first visit to the sandlot he finds himself in the outfield with a fly ball descending toward him which bounces off his glove causing the other boys except “Benny the jet” Rodriguez the team's leader to burst out laughing Smalls is humiliated and leaves. Smalls asks his Step-Father to teach him how to play, and while his Step- Father agrees Smalls cannot catch or throw the ball. Benny soon teaches him what he needs to know, and with Benny's support he gets a place on the team. Meanwhile behind the wall

Baseball is the oldest sport in the United States with many traditions that are still being practiced today. The film 42 is the story of Jackie Robinson breaking one of the oldest traditions in baseball by being the first African American to sign with an MLB team. This film demonstrates that courage can change the world by challenging societal customs. “I want someone who has the guts not to fight back. People aren’t gonna like this. They’re gonna do anything they can to get you to react. Echo a curse with a curse, and they’ll only hear yours. . . . Your enemy will be out in force and you cannot meet him on his low ground” (Rickey). This illustrates the courage and perseverance that Jackie Robinson has to demonstrate with the MLB. 42 demonstrates the powerful message that change only happens when people

“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world” these were the words once uttered by Babe Ruth. The Bad News Bears is a 1976 film, remade in 2005, about a little league baseball team full of misfits that were originally excluded from their Southern California baseball league for not being talented enough, but parent protest allowed for the team to be formed. The coach in charge of this team is a drunk, ex-professional baseball pitcher named Morris Buttermaker only thinking of himself and his paychecks. The team loses their first game after having to forfeit in the top of the first inning, quickly forming a rivalry with the Yankees. The team then wants to quit, but Buttermaker has a change of heart

The movie that we viewed in class is 42: The Jackie Robinson Story directed by Brian Helgeland. It was released in 2013 as a pg-13 movie and is 2 hours 8 minutes long. This movie is a historical non-fiction drama about the baseball player, Jackie Robinson, and the struggles he endured as being a black man playing in major league baseball in the 1940s. The theme of the movie highlights the importance of relationships between people, with Jackie Robinson as the ultimate applicant for desegregated baseball. This movie’s purpose is to not make us feel shameful from our national shortcomings but feel pride in the triumph of Jackie Robinson.

Only being the bat boy, Stanton had to bring his equipment to the ballpark everyday and go hit in the batting cages before the team showed up. Stanton thought to himself, “Why is coach asking me to swing in batting practice today? He has never done that once since I became the bat boy.” Stanton walked back onto the field and stepped into the batter’s box. Before Stanton even took a swing, he looked at the beautiful Marlins Park. Straight ahead was the bright, colorful outfield walls that were painted green. Stanton soaked in the atmosphere. While the batting practice pitcher went to throw the first pitch to Stanton, Johnny Field, the Marlins seventh round draft pick said, “Come on coach! You’re giving the bat boy a couple swings? Ha-ha that’s funny.” Just as Field finished his sentence, Scotty Stanton crushed the first pitch he saw into the left-center field gap, landing at an estimate four hundred feet. Coach Mattingly said, “Sit your ass down Field, we should have drafted this kid over you!” Stanton gave Mattingly a smile. Stanton continued to punish balls, smashing them all over Marlins Park. To others, it was just batting practice, but to Stanton, it meant more. It felt as if he had the game of baseball back in his life. When Stanton’s round was over, the Marlins players were impressed, besides the envious Johnny Field. One Marlins player even told Mattingly that this kid needs to be in the lineup. Mattingly

The Sandlot takes place in no spectacular Elysium, but in nothing else than a little town in Utah. In the middle of this typical town sits the Sandlot. The Sandlot creates the impression of an ancient tired field where the blue collar boys play baseball on. The field mean much more than a regular old field to the boys who play on it. The Sandlot means the beginning of many long lasting friendships. Also every player who plays on that field knows of the ferocious “Beast” that takes its claim on many baseballs over the left field

The main thesis of this film is to thank Jackie Robinson for being the first greatest #42 legacy baseball in Brooklyn NY. Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 and in April 15 947 he broke the color barrier. He had courage and determination to go out there and be the first one to break color barrier and he played for Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie Robinson changed the way Americans thought. When Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, more than sixty years of racial segregation in major-league baseball came to an end. Throughout the film people spoke about him, how articular he spoke, how smart he was and how he didn’t use fancy words to show off. He was straight forward person. When he retired from the game, Jackie Robinson went on to champion the cause of civil rights .Robinson stood for his moral principles no matter what anyone said. He corresponded with many people, including Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon to try to further civil rights issues. He participated in many marches and protests. I wanted to see African American playing in the field so he fought for them until he died.

Bart Layton built this doc not from one perspective, but from a collection of them. Some stories, like “The Imposter” need a panoptic approach to connect the audience to the film. The themes of manipulation, identity and love are the main themes conveyed by Layton. These themes are communicated through sounds and visual imagery.

Branch Rickey decided to take a leap of faith and do what was viewed as the unthinkable at the time, sign an African-American to a baseball team. In the film there is one scene in particular

For a 12-year-old Cuban boy living in the Bronx, baseball is his family's only way out and means a better tomorrow. In the novel, Heat by Mike Lupica, baseball represents a way out and a better tomorrow. He loves baseball and idolizes the Yankees pitcher El Grande, who was also Cuban-born. Michael Arroyo is a young boy who has reasons to distrust the representatives of the state must figure out how to continue life on his own terms while navigating the adult world and avoiding both the well-meaning and the badly-intentioned interference of grown-ups. Michael is also the best baseball pitcher on his South Bronx all-star team. Michael's arm is so good, that a rival Little League coach begins requesting proof that he's only 12 and eligible to play. They ask for his father but, recently, his father took a trip to Florida and had a heart attack, killing him. Michael and his 17-year-old brother Carlos, are trying to avoid Child Protective Services until Carlos turns 18.

The film opens in present day as Dottie Henson is preparing to attend the induction of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League into the Baseball Hall of Fame. She arrives to see groups playing ball and as she stands there watching, she remembers her time and the majority of the story is told as one long flashback. As the film nears its end, we return to present day and watch as Dottie reconnects with her former teammates and attends the opening of an exhibition and the ribbon cutting ceremony.

Baseball is America’s pastime. The sport of baseball goes back all the way to civil war era, 1839. August Wilson saw the potential this sport had to send a message, and incorporated it into his play Fences. His collection of ten plays portrays the hardships of African Americans for every decade of the twentieth century (Wilson 961). Fences, in particular portrays the nineteen fifties (Wilson 961). When one reads Fences, yes it is about the struggle of African Americans in the time period, but it also incorporates baseball as multiple plot elements, and a metaphor for life.

In addition, "Baseball as History and Myth in August Wilson's Fences," this article focuses on the dramatization of "fences," by August Wilson . Wilson uses both history and mythology of baseball to challenge the legitimacy of the American dream. "Fences" takes place at time where baseball has finally become integrated. Wilson focus on the history of African American baseball that began in America during the decades following the civil war and continued in various form until 1947. In addition, Wilson uses Troy skills in the Negro Leagues to indicate that the American dream stays out of reach for people of African ancestry. Moreover, Troy points out an

Allan Loeb and Stuart Schill's narrative is lifeless. What's befuddling is that the story's core concept is in fact very original, but they still manage to suck the life out it. The movie they should have made was one about how Gardener handles growing up on Mars but longs to find his father. What we got was a bewildering mess that focuses on Gardner and Tulsa.