Susan Sarandon said it best. No, not about the war. About baseball.

In the opening monologue of “Bull Durham,” she says that she believes in the Church of Baseball.

“You see, there’s no guilt in baseball, and it’s never boring… which makes it like sex.”

Or maybe James Earl Jones said it even better.

In “Field of Dreams,” he gives one of the greatest speeches in movie history.

“The one constant through all the years…has been baseball,” Jones says. “America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again.”

Ah, baseball. What better way to capture baseball’s greatness than through movies?

Here now, my top four baseball flicks – or some such.

4. Rookie of the Year (1993)

This non-classic makes my list because…well, just for the fact that the Cubs win the World Series. It had to be created in Hollywood.

After 13-year-old Henry Rowengartner injures his right elbow, the tendons heal “a little tight,” and he is able to pitch 100 mph.

He lives in Chicago. The Cubs suck.

They need to sell out the rest of their home games just to save the franchise.

So they use Henry as a publicity stunt – and he brings the Cubs a title.

You know this movie has to be elevated to a classic when it gets copied by another film without any credit. Are you listening, Lil’ Bow Wow?

I still remember Steadman’s advice to Henry in moments of fear: “You need to go to your have-to.”

Don’t ask me. I don’t know what it means, either.

3. A League of Their Own (1992)

Great baseball movie with great ending: “Hinson dropped the ball!”

I’m still not sure if she dropped the ball on purpose. There’s your topic. Now talk amongst yourselves.

The movie deals with the relationship of two sisters and the dealings of a women’s professional baseball league when the men left to fight in WWII.

The sarcastic one-liners are non-stop from scout Jon Lovitz.

And Tom Hanks plays the drunken manager who introduces himself to his team by peeing for 53 seconds in the locker room (yes, I timed it).

But he does sober up enough to give us a timeless lesson: “There’s no crying in baseball!”

2. The Sandlot (1993)

Childhood favorite that I still quote every day and makes me want to run outside and play ball.

New kid in town, Smalls, joins a group of eight kids for a summer of fun and the “biggest pickle any of us had ever seen.”

Smalls, who couldn’t catch or throw before joining the team, hits a ball signed by Babe Ruth over a fence and into the realm of a dog only known as “the Beast,” who as the story goes, eats anyone attempting to retrieve a ball.

The rest of the movie is about growing up, finding friends and climbing a fence.

And it includes a guideline to life: “Hereos get remembered but legends never die.”

1. Field of Dreams (1989)

The definitive baseball movie, it links the sport to the American dream.

With “The Voice” as his guide, Ray Kinsella builds a baseball field and helps fulfill the dreams of many.

The field allows Shoeless Joe Jackson, who was banned from baseball for “throwing” the 1919 World Series, to once again play the game he loves.

Moonlight Graham gets a major-league at-bat and Ray plays catch with his father.

Is it heaven?

“No, it’s Iowa.”