Baseball: The Movie is the first definitive history of this film genre that was born in 1915 and remains artistically and culturally vital more than a century later. Writer and critic Noah Gittell sheds some light on well-known classics and overlooked gems,exploring how baseball cinema creates a stage upon which the American ideal is born, performed and repeatedly defined. Noah spent some time with Mike Pomp on the Morning Information Center to discuss baseball on opening day 2024.