Top 20 Inspirational Sports Movies

Field of Dreams

"If you build it, he will come." Who doesn't remember hearing that mysterious line from the 1989 "Field of Dreams," and getting a little bit nervous and a little bit excited all at the same time? This classic about baseball, believing, and forgiving stars Kevin Costner as Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, who, upon hearing mysterious voices, comes to the conclusion that he needs to build a baseball diamond out in his cornfield. After a while, ghosts of former baseball players from the 1919 Chicago White Sox team--his deceased father's favorite team--start playing on his field.

At the end of the movie, in what is certainly the film's most touching scene, one of the players, Shoeless Joe Jackson, played by Ray Liotta, repeats the phrase "If you build it, he will come," glancing toward the catcher, who then removes his mask and reveals himself to be Kinsella's father as a young man, not yet "worn down by life." They then play an emotional game of catch--a beautiful father-son moment from beyond the grave.