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Movies with Balls
- Author
- Rick Bryson
- Narrator
- Patrick Mealey
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 19 August 2025
- Run Time
- 4 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Movies with Balls will make you want to rewatch the movies you already love, and discover gems you've never seen. Play ball!
If you're the kind of fan who cheers every single time you watch Rocky beat Drago, or remembers who said "Be the ball, Danny" and "If you build it, he will come," this is the book for you.
Movies with Balls celebrates and analyzes more than two dozen of the greatest sports films of all time, with expert play-by-play and color commentary on the movies themselves and the athleticism they portray.
You'll be transported into fictional arenas, stadiums, gyms, fields, and golf courses to relive the climactic moments from: Caddyshack; The Natural; Field of Dreams; Dodgeball; The Karate Kid; Rocky IV; The Waterboy; Bend it Like Beckham; Creed; and many more!
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Details
- Author
- Rick Bryson
- Narrator
- Patrick Mealey
- Duration
- 4 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 August 2025
- ISBN
- 9798331970543
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Film history, theory or criticism, Sociology: sport and leisure, Popular culture
Synopsis
"Movies with Balls is equal parts fandom, analysis, and nerdiness. It's a wonderful time." —Shea Serrano, New York Times bestselling author of Movies (and Other Things)Movies with Balls will make you want to rewatch the movies you already love, and discover gems you've never seen. Play ball!If you're the kind of fan who cheers every single time you watch Rocky beat Drago, or remembers who said "Be the ball, Danny" and "If you build it, he will come," this is the book for you.Movies with Balls celebrates and analyzes more than two dozen of the greatest sports films of all time, with expert play-by-play and color commentary on the movies themselves and the athleticism they portray.You'll be transported into fictional arenas, stadiums, gyms, fields, and golf courses to relive the climactic moments from: Caddyshack; The Natural; Field of Dreams; Dodgeball; The Karate Kid; Rocky IV; The Waterboy; Bend it Like Beckham; Creed; and many more!
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