Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport, offering a sunny rendering of the American Dream—both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, which magnifies and mythologizes all it touches, has long been the ideal medium to canonize this aspirational idea.
Washington City Paper film critic and author Noah Gittell sheds light on well-known classics and overlooked gems while exploring how baseball cinema creates a stage upon which the American ideal is born, performed, and repeatedly redefined. Gittell has covered film and baseball for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Ringer, Slate, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
His new book, Baseball: The Movie (Triumph), is available for purchase.
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