Postcards: Knock The Cover Off the Ball (With These Investments)

What's the best baseball movie in history? Well it depends on whether you measure your decision on whether you can make money off its existence.

Dear Fellow Expat:

There’s a standard bar debate over the best baseball film ever.

Comedy lovers take Major League.

Every sportswriter I know loves Bull Durham.

Statisticians choose Moneyball.

And votes tally along for Field of Dreams, Eight Men Out, or Pride of the Yankees.

For me, it’s The Natural – a film I watched with my father 500 times as a kid.

Based on the famous book by Bernard Malamud, it’s the story of a baseball prodigy sidetracked by pride in his younger years, only to return to the Major Leagues 17 years later to help the beloved New York Knights make it to the championship.

I won’t spoil the difference between the book and film in the latter part of both media.

It stars Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs, a middle-aged rookie who knocks “the cover off the ball” in an iconic scene.

A great supporting cast includes Robert Duvall, Kim Basinger, Glenn Close, and Wilford Brimley.

It’s a tremendous story about baseball, hope, redemption from one’s past, and pride.

And it has the most iconic so…