EPISODE · Apr 6, 2020 · 56 MIN
The Baseball Movies of Kevin Costner with Jessica Kleinschmidt (@KleinschmidtJD)
from Big Screen Sports - The Sports Movie Podcast · host Blue Wire, Kyle Bandujo
It's pretty much a given that Kevin Costner is the best movie athlete of all-time (at least according to this podcast he is). At the heart of his case is three top tier baseball movies; "Bull Durham," "Field of Dreams," and "For Love of the Game."NBC Sports baseball reporter Jessica Kleinschmidt joins to tell us why "For Love of the Game" is her favorite baseball movie, and to compare & contrast the Costner baseball movie trio. We break down: The best aspect of each film How each movie handled baseball The respective casts Each film's "Big Chill" moment And more Big Screen Sports is brought to you by Blue Wire Podcasts and presented by BetOnline.ag.Make sure to follow Jessica on Twitter @KleinschmidtJD to check out what she's doing for NBC Sports in the absence of live baseball.Make sure to subscribe for new episodes of Big Screen Sports every Monday. You can follow the podcast on Twitter @Big_ScreenSport and host Kyle Bandujo @kylebandujo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices You can support Big Screen Sports, get schedule updates, and pick movies to be covered in upcoming episodes by joining our Patreon at patreon.com/bigscreensports.Buy "Movies With Balls: The Greatest Sports Films of All Time, Analyzed, Mapped, and Illustrated" here or wherever books are sold.Big Screen Sports is hosted/edited by Kyle Bandujo, and produced & supported by Aaron Figureoa, Mike Schubert, Steve Rogers, Kevin Frost, Mike D, Ryan Yager, Mike Dries, Chris Mycoskie, John Craig, Sam Smith, Zach Rich, Classic Stadium Fire, Dan McFall, Kevin Enkelmann, Mac Lindsey, Curt Ritchie, Robert Dove, Andrew Teagul Benjamin Baumann, Jeff Estes, Anthony Scafone, Taylor Logan, Shawn Hoffman, Peter Roble, Jamie Bryan, Brad Brown, Don Jenver, Chris Raczynski, Ethan Lavery, Daniel Powell, Abhilash Reddy, Wil Thompson, Capers Thompson, and Rilwan Balogun.Alex McDaniel handles video production, social media, and special teams. Art for Big Screen Sports was created by Riki Prosper. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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It's pretty much a given that Kevin Costner is the best movie athlete of all-time (at least according to this podcast he is). At the heart of his case is three top tier baseball movies; "Bull Durham," "Field of Dreams," and "For Love of the Game." NBC Sports baseball reporter Jessica Kleinschmidt joins to tell us why "For Love of the Game" is her favorite baseball movie, and to compare & contrast the Costner baseball movie trio. We break down: The best aspect of each film How each movie handled baseball The respective casts Each film's "Big Chill" moment And more Big Screen Sports is brought to you by Blue Wire Podcasts and presented by BetOnline.ag. Make sure to follow Jessica on Twitter @KleinschmidtJD to check out what she's doing for NBC Sports in the absence of live baseball. Make sure to subscribe for new episodes of Big Screen Sports every Monday. You can follow the podcast on Twitter @Big_ScreenSport and host Kyle Bandujo @kylebandujo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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