Alexander: Behold, the vanishing baseball movie

The 1980s and early ’90s may have been the glory years of baseball as portrayed/immortalized on the big screen. A genre that hadn’t been taken very seriously, or more to the point had been depicted haphazardly in the era before Technicolor, all of a sudden had become popular fodder for the imagination industry.

There were “The Natural,” “Bull Durham,” “Field of Dreams,” “Eight Men Out,” “Major League,” “A League Of Their Own,” “The Sandlot” … all the way up to “Moneyball” and “42″ in this century.