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Lowball: America's Pastime

(Mon March 2 through Sun March 8)

Movies and baseball: Easily the two best things this country ever invented. These films—hand-selected by baseball sickos—capture the sport in all its majesty and complexity, its strangeness and stupidity. One features one of the greatest Americans who ever lived playing himself in his own life story; another involves Robert DeNiro throwing a knife through a door because his team lost (relatable). Together, they might help you survive until opening day. Come early for a very good preshow!

Guest programmed by Lindsey Adler, Ellen Cushing, and Caroline Golum.

Films in the series:

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings(1976)

Sugar (2008)

Moneyball (2011)

The Fan (1996)

Bull Durham(1988)

The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)

Lindsey Adler is a writer living in Brooklyn. She covered baseball for a decade for Deadspin, The Athletic, and the Wall Street Journal. She can be reached at hello@lindseyadler.com

Ellen Cushing is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a co-host of Hits Different, New York’s only anti-math baseball podcast. LGM!

Caroline Golum is a filmmaker and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. She is a contributing editor and occasional podcast co-host for Screen Slate. Her debut feature, A Feast of Man, is available upon request. Her second feature, Revelations of Divine Love, is coming to a theater near you. You can follow her on Twitter @carolineavenue.