Top 30 Baseball Movie Characters of All-Time

30. Billy “Downtown” Anderson, “Major League 3”

This is the very worst of the three “Major League” movies produced, but if it weren’t for this movie, we’d never have Scott Bacula looking a little like Tony LaRussa, and we’d not have Billy “Downtown” Anderson in our collective memories, either. I liked this character because he played the prima donna-type prospect who was humbled, and eventually he had the redemption story as he succeeded ultimately in the end.

29. Ben Wightman, “Fever Pitch”
This may not be purely a movie about a baseball team, but it is about the fan’s point of view, and I can see some of myself in Ben Wightman, the role played by Jimmy Fallon in the movie. What I enjoyed about this character is he lived and breathed the Boston Red Sox, but he eventually realized there was more to life than his favorite baseball team. Not the greatest movie, but the character wasn’t terrible.

28. Roger Dorn, “Major League”
Corbin Bernsen portrayed this role for all three of the Major League movies, once as a player of the Cleveland Indians, once as the owner-then-player for the same team, then in the third installment he somehow became the owner of the Minnesota Twins.

I like the Dorn from the first “Major League” movie, as he went from a veteran who only cared about making money to a veteran who wanted to win and bought into what the no-name Indians became in the film.

27. Morris Buttermaker, “Bad News Bears”
How about having this guy coach your kid’s little league team? Who wouldn’t want a former major leaguer who sits in a dugout, doesn’t teach the players any fundamentals and has a cooler of beer in the dugout? There is something wholesome in a strange way about that. OK, I wouldn’t want him coaching my kids, or anyone else’s kids, but I’d play for him in a softball league.

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