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Article: Baseball and fictional television: our national pastime meets our national obsession.
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- September 22, 2005
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Most baseball fans and film aficionados can easily name their top five baseball films of all time. Academic research in this area has focused on such classic and popular films as The Natural, Bull Durham, and Field of Dreams, to name a few. When we think about the relationship between baseball and television, our thoughts tend toward televised games, SportsCenter highlights, or Ken Burns's Baseball miniseries. The reverence fans have for baseball in film does not exist for baseball on television, partially because of the limited attention fictional television has paid to our national pastime.
Overall, there seem to be two types of baseball movies. The first, which can be ...