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Book Review: The Making of Major League

[‘The Making of Major League’ by Jonathan Knight is now available from Gray & Company Publishers.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

It’s almost impossible to make a cult movie intentionally. Certainly filmmaker David Ward wasn’t thinking in those terms when he wrote the screenplay for MAJOR LEAGUE, the baseball comedy in which a particularly ragtag Cleveland Indians team manages to pull together to have a winning season, which when the film was released in 1989 was an idea still firmly rooted in the world of fantasy. Made for a modest budget of $11 million, the film was a hit. But more than its initial box office success, MAJOR LEAGUE would go on to become one of those aforementioned cult movies, the kind of movie watched over and over again by fans who have memorized every line of dialogue.