Count Five: The Hold Steady's Favorite Baseball Movies

Today is the only day of the year that America has no professional sports to tune in to. Even though this year's MLB All-Star Game gave us six and a half extra innings, rock 'n' roll's resident baseball experts the Hold Steady have put together their top five list of baseball movies, which you can rent to cure your mid-season withdrawal. Craig Finn and Tad Kubler, New York's biggest Twins fans, rattle them off.


1. 'Bull Durham': Susan Sarandon, Kevin Costner when he was still watchable.

2. 'Field of Dreams': "If you build it, they will come" -- phenomenal movie.

3. 'Little Big League': Actually, my [Tad's] uncle was in that movie. He was a minor-league baseball player in the Twin Cities. That one's pretty bad, actually, but we'll throw it in there.

4. 'Ed': You gotta have the monkey! Anytime you put a monkey in people's clothes, that's gonna be in the top five. A diagram with baseball movies and monkeys intersects right there, I like it -- not to take anything away from major-league pitchers.

5. 'The Bad News Bears': A great one.

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