Ask any sports fan to pick the best baseball movie, and you'll get a long list. Whether its major league (Cobb), minor league (Bull Durham), or the Girls Professional league (A League of Their Own), this sport has repeatedly delivered hits that please audiences and critics in equal measure. For a primer on winning baseball movies, check out this gallery of ten classic crowd-pleasers.

Eight Men Out, Bill Irwin, D.B. Sweeney, Charlie Sheen, and the team, 1988. © Orion Pictures. Courtesy of the Everett Collection.