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Sports Guy's Top Sports Movies: No. 39

By Bill Simmons
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004

When HBO announced that Billy Crystal was making a movie about the Mantle-Maris home run chase, everyone thought the same thing. "Wow, that's gonna stink." You can't blame us. Baseball movies rarely work. You need a sizable budget to deal with stadiums, extras and game scenes. Cable companies rarely have the resources for top-notch actors, which leads to casting decisions like "Let's hire Roy Scheider as the slugger; he's 58, but it's a young 58!" And with Crystal involved as a third-time d ...

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