Last week’s list of sports movies turned out to be incomplete, thanks to feedback from some fans.
My brain must have been scrambled from all the boxing films on my compendium not to have placed the “Rocky” saga and “Million Dollar Baby” on the list.
How I could have forgotten to include one of my favorite baseball movies, “A League of Their Own,”’ probably resulted from a beanball experience during a stickball game of my childhood that made me cry, despite Tom Hanks’ admonition, “There’s no crying in baseball.”
I included “The Hustler,” but forgot its sequel, “The Color of Money.” Though not being a golf devotee, “Caddyshack” inexplicably failed to make my cut. I’m also not a fan of wrestling, but was reminded of “The Wrestler,” if for no other reason than Marisa Tomei’s performance.
Three other movies recommended to me, “The Longest Yard,” “Remember the Titans” and “Kingpin,” frankly either I didn’t see or didn’t register as memorable.
An amended list follows:
Bicycling
Premium Rush
Breaking Away
Running
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Chariots of Fire
Wrestling
Win Win
The World According to Garp
The Wrestler
Auto Racing
Rush
Ford v. Ferrari
Grand Prix
Baseball
Bad News Bears
Pride of the Yankees
Major League
Bull Durham
Bang the Drum Slowly
Eight Men Out
Field of Dreams
The Natural
Moneyball
A League of Their Own
Hockey
Miracle
Slap Shot
The Mighty Ducks
Boxing
Golden Boy
Cinderella Man
Raging Bull
The Great White Hope
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Rocky saga
Million Dollar Baby
Horse Racing
A Day at the Races
Horse Feathers
Seabiscuit
Secretariat
National Velvet
Football
Rudy
Invincible
Brian’s Song
M*A*S*H
Jim Thorpe—All American
Basketball
Hoosiers
Hoop Dreams
White Men Can’t Jump
Soccer
Bend It like Beckham
Swimming
The Swimmer
Watermarks
Pool
Hustler
The Color of Money
Bowling
The Big Lebowski
Tennis
Borg/McEnroe
Battle of the Sexes
Match Point
Rugby
Invictus
Fencing
The Seahawk
Captain Blood
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Mask of Zorro (1998)
Golf
Caddyshack