Enjoy the outdoors and the start of baseball season this spring with the Rec Centers’ Movies in the Park series in April and May. Filled with some of our favorite baseball-themed movies, each movie showing promises to be a great time. Check out what movies will be showing down below!

Bring your lawn chair and blankets and enjoy a Saturday night at Beardsley Park watching a great film. Partial concessions will be available.

Admission is free and no tickets are required. Gates open at 5 p.m. and the movie begins at dusk.

If you go

  • Beardsley Park
  • Saturdays, April 23, 30, May 7, 14
  • Gates open at 5 p.m.
  • Movies begins at dusk
  • Bring your lawn chairs and blankets
  • Partial concessions will be available

Admission

  • Admission is free
  • No tickets required

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The Starting Lineup

Moneyball

Saturday, April 23

Rated PG-13

Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team.

A League of Their Own

Saturday, April 30

Rated PG

Two sisters, Kit and Dottie, (Lori Petty and Geena Davis) participate in the Women’s Baseball Association, along with other girls on the “Rockford Peaches” with interesting and drunk manager Jimmy Dugan, (Tom Hanks) and wild girl Mae Mordibeto, (Madonna) they find themselves surrounded with drama and troubles.

Field of Dreams

Saturday, May 7

Rated PG

Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can’t ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true.

The Natural

Saturday, May 14

Rated PG

A middle-aged unknown comes seemingly out of nowhere to become a legendary baseball player with almost supernatural talent.

The movie trailer was unavailable to share on this page, so enjoy this clip from the movie!