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East Side Dave’s Top 5 Non-Fiction Baseball Movies! (With Video)

It’s Major League Baseball’s Opening Day, sports fans!   YES! It’s that glorious time of the year where we all have hopes of making it to the World Series and grabbing…

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It's Major League Baseball's Opening Day, sports fans!   YES!

It's that glorious time of the year where we all have hopes of making it to the World Series and grabbing a championship!

The smell of the beer and hot dogs is in the air!   So, after you watch your team in action today, how about a good baseball movie?   That's why we're making this list!

And because we already did the Top 5 Baseball Movies Of All Time list......we're switching it up!   These are all films based on true stories!   So get ready for East Side Dave's Top 5 Non-Fiction Baseball Movies!   Play ball!

5.) 61

A great flick about the Yankees' Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris trying to break Babe Ruth's single season home run record...with great performances and cool shots of early '60's Yankee Stadium.

4.) Cobb

Highly-underrated movie about baseball villain and overall bad man, Ty Cobb.  A fascinating watch.

3.) Eight Men Out

Writer/director John Sayles crafts a captivating film about the crooked 1919 Black Sox.

2.) 42

Before he was Black Panther, the late, great Chadwick Boseman stars in this fantastic picture about barrier-breaker Jackie Robinson.

1.) Moneyball

Nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor, this excellent movie is arguably the greatest behind-the-scenes baseball film ever.

“East Side” Dave McDonald has been the co-host of The Morning Rat Race for the past ten years. A lifelong Monmouth County resident, Davey Mac was raised in Spring Lake and graduated from Monmouth University. Additionally, Davey Mac co-hosts The East Side Dave and Son Wrestling Show (which is available on WRAT.com and is nationally syndicated by Beasley Digital Media). Davey Mac is a mega-sports fan, crazy wrestling enthusiast, Star Wars obsessive, rock and roll freak, and all-around Pop Culture nut. From the hottest streaming shows to the best in live sports, Dave tries to watch everything.