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Major League

1989 · directed by David S. Ward · 107 min
23,958 feet · Prominence
819th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Major League’ 30th Anniversary With Bill Simmons and Rembert Browne

How this film scores

Draw61

$75m worldwide in 1989 — $200m in today's money.

As released$75mIn 2026 money$200mRank1,652 of 8,589In 198923 of 125

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise73

Critics 73, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 73.

Critics73 → 36Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy52

Judged directly: Baseball staple, endlessly quoted.

Verdict52 of 100IMDb7.2 from 81kWikipedia25k views a monthAge37 years

Scored beside it · 755 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 61 praise 73 legacy 52averages 62, which places it at23,958 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Rene Russo21,602 ft