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Major League

1989 · directed by David S. Ward · 107 min
23,719 feet · Prominence
1,016th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw61

Lifetime worldwide gross $75m, re-releases included; about $200m in 2026 money.

Rank1,733 of 11,051In 198923 of 156

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics73 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. 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 · 955 of 4,039 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, placing it at23,719 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.

Whose apex this is

▲ James Gammon

In these careers — elevation for this film

Charlie Sheen19,332 ftTom Berenger19,129 ftWesley Snipes19,013 ftRene Russo18,186 ftCorbin Bernsen18,118 ftJames Gammon18,084 ftDennis Haysbert17,638 ft