Bob Davids Chapter baseball film series

About this event

SABR's Bob Davids Chapter is co-sponsoring a Baseball Film Series in November and December at the Juanita E. Thornton-Shepherd Park Library, 7420 Georgia Ave. NW in Washington. The Friends of the Library are co-sponsoring the film series along with SABR.

All screenings are free and open to all. All films will be shown Sundays at 2 p.m.

The movies will keep your appetite whetted for baseball over the offseason, no matter how long the offseason may become. The schedule: • Nov. 8: “Bull Durham” (1988) with Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins.

• Nov. 15: “Fever Pitch” (2005) with Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore.

• Nov. 22: “The Jackie Robinson Story” (1950) with Jackie Robinson and Ruby Dee, preceded by the short “One-Run Elmer” (1935) with Buster Keaton and Jim Thorpe.

• Dec. 6: “Field of Dreams” (1989) with Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Amy Madigan.

• Dec. 13: “Only the Ball Was White” (1980), a documentary about the Negro Leagues featuring interviews with Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Buck Leonard, Jimmy Crutchfield and “Gentleman Dave” Malarcher.

• Dec. 20: “Talent for the Game” (1991) with Edward James Olmos and Lorraine Bracco.

Attendees will be encouraged to continue the post-screening discussion at Ledo Pizza, 7435 Georgia Ave. NW, across the street from the library.