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Movies Like Pete Rose: Playing to Win

If you liked Pete Rose: Playing to Win (2003), a movie directed by Alan Swyer, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Home Run

    Home Run (2013)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team

  2. 2Rookie of the Year

    Rookie of the Year (1993)

    ★ 6.2/10

    When the cast comes off his once broken arm, a 12-year-old boy can throw a 100-mile-an-hour fastball, and the Chicago Cubs want him as their new pitcher.

  3. 3Little Big League

    Little Big League (1994)

    ★ 6/10

    When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himself manager, causing unrest in an organization that struggles to take…

  4. 4Blue Chips

    Blue Chips (1994)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the…

  5. 5Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

    Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)

    ★ 5.9/10

    The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.

  6. 6Fast Girls

    Fast Girls (2012)

    ★ 6/10

    A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

  7. 7The Battered Bastards of Baseball

    The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Hollywood veteran Bing Russell creates the only independent baseball team in the country—alarming the baseball establishment and sparking the meteoric rise of the 1970s Portland Mavericks.

  8. 8Mr. Baseball

    Mr. Baseball (1992)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a…

  9. 9The Hill

    The Hill (2023)

    ★ 7.7/10

    The story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship with his father in a quest to become a major league baseball (MLB) player.

  10. 10Amateur

    Amateur (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10

    14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.

  11. 11The Rookie

    The Rookie (2002)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team…

  12. 12Bad News Bears

    Bad News Bears (2005)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker…

  13. 13Hands of Stone

    Hands of Stone (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10

    The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

  14. 14Hardball

    Hardball (2001)

    ★ 6.5/10

    An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

  15. 15Jawbone

    Jawbone (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…

  16. 16Porno

    Porno (2019)

    ★ 6/10

    When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.

  17. 17Flicka

    Flicka (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets…

  18. 18For Love of the Game

    For Love of the Game (1999)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.

  19. 19Eight Men Out

    Eight Men Out (1988)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with…

  20. 20The Benchwarmers

    The Benchwarmers (2006)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.

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