Nominated for the Academy Award for art direction/set decoration, cinematography, original score, and supporting actress. The best of baseball movies. This is a fantastic story about a man who grows up in the game. After being mysteriously shot early in his career, a quiet comeback years later quickly rockets him back up to super stardom. A modern day fairy tale that wonderfully depicts the importance of baseball in America in the early 1930’s and the business it was at the time. (Directed by Barry Levinson)