Baseball is in the air as the Major League Baseball season kicked off in full force today. As I looked for something movie related to baseball I landed on a trailer from For Love of the Game. Partly because my last post was on Tiger Town in Lakeland, Florida where the Detroit Tigers hold their Spring Training—and in For Love of the Game stars Kevin Costner as a Detroit Tiger picture (and is directed by Sam Raimi—who is really from Detroit).
But before I get to the trailer let me mention that the micro doc Tinker Field: A Love Letter that I made this month as a personal project got a nice mention on Friday from the Orlando Sentinel by staff writer Mark Schlueb in his article Filmmaker produces video tribute to Tinker Field. (If you’re doing a personal project for yourself—it’s a nice bonus to get a good amount of positive feedback from others as well as some exposure in the press.)
P.S. Costner’s been in three baseball movies (Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, For Love of the Game), one golf movie (Tin Cup), and one biking movie (American Flyer), and in a few days has a movie coming out in a couple of weeks where he plays a General Manager of a pro football team—Draft Day.
Related posts:
Michigan’s Sam Raimi & The Guy with Greasy Hair
The Dickens of Detroit (Elmore Leonard)
Elmore Leonard (1925—2013)
Screenwriting from Iowa 
Ah baseball! For Love of The Game is a deeply flawed film, but has a really great premise. I
True—that’s why I just showed the trailer. It cannot hold up to The Natural, Sandlot, Bad New Bears, Moneyball etc. etc. etc–but I just couldn’t pass up the connection of Costner was standing on the mound in a Detroit Tiger uniform and my last post was from Tiger Town.