Just about everyone loves “The Sandlot.” Baseball afficionados of a certain age gravitate toward the likes of “Bull Durham,” “Field of Dreams” and “Major League,” but in the Musgrove household, one baseball movie stood out over the others:

“61*”

Using the Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa summer of ’98 home run chase as a jumping off point, the Billy Crystal-directed HBO movie chronicles Mickey Mantle’s and Roger Maris’ attempt to hunt down Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record.

The chase between Mantle and Maris goes back and forth and into the fall. In an effort to keep up, Mantle at one point decides to force down the blackened eggs that Maris was eating during a heater because he’d “try anything” to bust out of a slump. It’s a dish that Musgrove’s father, Mark, has tried to recreate. Maris ultimately pulls away to overtake Ruth’s record, but in more games than it took “The Sultan of Swat” to set baseball’s biggest record.

Hence the asterisk attached to Maris’ stake in Major League Baseball’s record books and ultimately the HBO movie title.

“That time is very exciting,” Musgrove said. “I grew up in the McGwire/Sosa era, but seeing where that all came from, the initial first chase was pretty cool and the connection to my childhood and watching with my dad.

“Just the feelings it brings back.”

That’s what baseball movies with staying power tend to get right: The feels.

If you’re into that sort of thing.

That’s not Walker Buehler’s speed so much, so “Major League” is his go-to baseball flick.

“A lot of baseball movies are real romantic and I think a lot of us grew up with this romantic idea of baseball and that’s just not everyone’s experience,” Buehler said. “I got to play with my dad and grandpa and all that stuff, but ‘Field of Dreams’ doesn’t really do it for me.”

Pitching coach Ruben Niebla worked in Cleveland’s organization for over two decades, so “Major League” is the go-to baseball movie for him, too.

“The first one was good, and then it started to become a little bit of a mockery,” Niebla said in reference to the 1994 sequel. Niebla was not even aware of a third installment — “Major League: Back to the Minors,” starring Walton Goggins well before his breakout Boyd Crowder role in FX’s “Justified.”

The mockery, of course, is what Jackson Merrill is all about when he sits down to watch Rob Schneider and David Spade in “The Benchwarmers.” Merrill was only 3 years old when the film came out, but he grew up on the slapstick tale of three grown men challenging the local Little League bullies and swears it holds up as a comedy today.

“It’s funny,” Merrill said. “I’ve watched it so many times.”

Yuki Matsui’s formative baseball years were spent following the adventures of Goro in the Japanese baseball anime “Major,” while Sung-Mun Song used the plot of “Moneyball” to envision what Major League Baseball might be like for him should he get an opportunity in the United States.

“Moneyball is really famous in Korea,” Song said through interpreter Juneseo Yi.

Griffin Canning is drawn to the “Clear the mechanism” mantra that Kevin Costner’s Billy Chapel repeats to himself to phase out the crowd while chasing a perfect game in “For Love of the Game,” while Jase Bowen’s favorite baseball movies span multiple generations. He likes both Walter Matthau’s and Billy Bob Thornton’s “Bad News Bears” movies for the same reason.

“I probably know the Billy Bob Thornton one a little better, but I just love that group,” Bowen said. “And then Kelly coming on and just chaos. It cracks me up every time.”

An Angels fan as a kid, Ty France’s favorite baseball movie is “Angels in the Outfield,” the 1994 edition featuring a young Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew McConaughey well before he became a household name.

Count Luis Campusano, Michael King and Jason Adam among the Padres who grew up on “The Sandlot.”

“That brings me back to my childhood,” King said.

Added Adam: “I just watched it a ton as a kid. It’s nostalgic. I’ve introduced my oldest two, and they liked it. The others will watch it (eventually).”

As for Lucas Giolito, he actually pitched at Triple-A Durham. He and his teammates likely launched a few balls at the infamous bull behind the left-center outfield wall. So for his money, you can’t beat “Bull Durham.”

“For me, it’s the most comparable,” Giolito said. “Obviously it’s a different era. They don’t have cellphones in their hands, but it is the most true to life, real, visceral feel for minor league baseball and that grind and the different personalities.

“It’s pretty timeless. The love story at the center of it is interesting. It’s a compelling story. I’ve always enjoyed that movie.”