Noah Gittell celebrates BASEBALL: THE MOVIE with investigative journalist Bradford William Davis

Featuring Field of Dreams, The Bad News Bears, A League of Their Own, and more: a probing and entertaining work at the intersection of pop culture and sports.

Noah Gittell is a journalist, film critic, and lecturer on film and baseball. He has been published in the New York Times, The Ringer, The Guardian, The Atlantic, LA Review of Books, Defector, GQ, Esquire, Elle, and Wired. He is an on-camera reporter for BBC's "Talking Movies," and presents for Smithsonian Associates on cinema and the Oscars.

Bradford William Davis was an investigative reporter on Insider's investigations team. He previously worked as a columnist for the New York Daily News, providing enterprise reporting, essaying and investigative work beyond the boxscore.

Davis' reporting on MLB's quiet creation, use, and distribution of three distinct baseballs won a 2023 New York Press Club award for best national sports feature. His work on Major League Baseball's engagement with racial justice in the wake of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor's killings for the Daily News earned him a 2020 Best Contemporary Baseball Commentary Award from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Davis' work has been featured in GQ, The Washington Post, NBC Defector, and twice in the Baseball Prospectus Annual. He is a lifelong New Yorker living in Harlem, but Queens is forever home.