Sports movies were a quintessential part of the movie theater experience during my childhood, every bit as much as action movies or summer blockbusters, and the early 90s were the absolute heyday of the genre.
The summer of 1993 gave us both “Rookie of the Year” and “The Sandlot” — two classics embedded into the very fabric of our generation’s culture and even today are referenced by Gen-Zers who have never seen them. But it was one sports film in particular that year that snuck into hearts, minds and cinemas and has stuck with me every bit as much as those baseball-centric classics.
