Ten Movies We Like

Hollywood will soon celebrate another edition of the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, and hand out Oscars to the most critically acclaimed movies of the year.

We’re also big film lovers, but we have a certain type. We like baseball movies, or at the very least ones that have memorable baseball scenes in them. We also give bonus points to movies that have some kind of connections to Alberta and Saskatchewan.

With that in mind, here’s a look at 10 movies that we like and have written about in the past …

Uphill Battle

Rickey Hill dreamed of playing pro baseball.

While he didn’t play in Major League Baseball, the Texan did spend time in the minors despite his considerable adversity.

Hill’s journey, which included a stop with the Lethbridge Expos, is the basis of the new Netflix movie, The Hill.