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What are your 3 favorite sports movies in order? There are a lot of close calls but this is my list..

1) The Natural
2) Major League
3) White Men Can't Jump
 

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Rocky
Brian's Song
Raging Bull
 
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I don't know about three, but I have one. Field of Dreams. My dad taught me everything I know about baseball, and then died young (I was a junior in high school). So when Coster's younger version dad walks out of the corn, and they get to play catch --I bawl like a baby. Everytime.

Caddyshack is pretty sweet though, so I got that going for me.
 

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1. Dodgeball
2. He Got Game (because of Ray Allen of course)
3. Field of Dreams
 

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Field of Dreams
Remember the Titans
Rudy
 

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Above the Rim
Remember the Titans
The Fighter


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Honorable mention: The Program, Sandlot, Dodgeball


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Hoosiers
Remember the Titans
Jim Thorpe-All American (started my lifelong love of sports)
 
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Bull Durham
The Natural
Bad News Bears

Baseball just seem better for movies, b/c they ate really about something else and you can do that better w/ BB than other sports it seems to me... though I always watch The Longest Yard (the Burt Reynolds one) if I hit it channel surfing...

Oh, Caddyshack isn't a sports movie - Happy Golmore and Tin Cup are - so it's not a golf I'd not a sport thing...
 
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1. Breaking Away
2. The Natural
3. Rudy

Honorable mention for Escape to Victory. I loved this when I was a kid, but my guess is that it wouldn't be so good if I saw it now.
 

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Bull Durham
The Natural
Bad News Bears

Baseball just seem better for movies, b/c they ate really about something else and you can do that better w/ BB than other sports it seems to me... though I always watch The Longest Yard (the Burt Reynolds one) if I hit it channel surfing...

Oh, Caddyshack isn't a sports movie - Happy Golmore and Tin Cup are - so it's not a golf I'd not a sport thing...
Bad News Bears was the first PG movie that I saw in the theater. I was so pissed when my parents wouldn't let me see The Sting a few years earlier when all my older brothers and sisters did, and when Bad News Bears came out I think I must have threatened a hunger strike or something because I remember them making an event out of taking me. Might have been Easter Sunday iirc.

Every single movie mentioned in your post is an all-timer for me though. The Longest Yard (the Bernadette Peters one) always gets me, too, as does Tin Cup. There's a handful of scenes in Happy Gilmore that are always worth catching also.

I agree about Caddyshack. I love it obviously, but don't think of it as a sports movie either, and I can't really explain why as compared with a lot of these.
 
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So.....Rocky won the Best Picture Oscar.....but I don't know that it's a sports movie as much as its a love story.

I'm going with.....

Hoosiers
Bull Durham
Bad news bears
 
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