Men feel safe with these empty generalities 2: After Peter reunites with his father, Ego the Living Planet, and discovers his reality-warping powers as a half-Celestial, one of the first things they do is a father-son game of playing catch with an energy ball made of light. It's played for laughs Scottie is so bad that hurting himself in the face from his Dad's soft toss is considered an improvement, but his dad still cares. Scottie takes a baseball through his glove and through his hand to the face, injuring him.
The Sandlot shows Scottie and his dad's attempts to teach Scottie to play. Realizing the inverted nature of the relationship with the young son explaining things to his father, Cal asks, "How old are you?" Crazy, Stupid, Love hangs a lampshade on this trope as Cal and Robbie bond and work out Cal's issues playing catch. The audience immediately gets their relationship Big Daddy is a loving father who recklessly endangers his child in a deconstruction of superhero kid sidekicks, and Hit Girl worships him. Kick-Ass subverts this trope to establish Big Daddy and Hit Girl, where the framing and dialog look like a daughter reluctantly playing catch with her supportive and attentive father, only for Big Daddy to shoot her in body armor to get her used to the impact. Ray and Robbie start the film and remain in father-son conflict almost until the film's end. Inverted in that Ray acts like an immature jerk by throwing it harder and harder to his son, causing Robbie to intentionally let a ball pass so Ray shatters his own window. War of the Worlds, Tom Cruise's Ray Ferrier has a catch with Justin Chatwin as his nearly adult son Robbie. In Field of Dreams, after building the titular field, Ray Kinsella and his father John's ghost talk about heaven then play catch as most of the audience starts crying Manly Tears. It can be the parent reaching out to the child or the reverse. The other party's reaction to the offer shows their view of the relationship. Likewise, offering to play catch is always a sign of one reaching out to the other. A single shot of the disappointed child tells the audience everything they need to know. In another variant, not making time to play catch with one's child is always synecdoche for being a neglectful or distant parent. When inverted, with the parent throwing hard enough to hurt the younger player, it demonstrates a lot of immaturity on the part of the parent. 
When shown in a negative light, it shows conflict between the two that can be generational. When done in a positive light, it shows that the young character is growing up and growing strong. Often the younger figure demonstrates their maturity or precocious strength by throwing the ball hard enough to make their partner's hand sting. If the younger player is a girl, she's often depicted as a tomboy. If the parent playing catch is a mother-figure instead, it can reveal she has to play the roles of both father and mother because the father isn't in the picture or that Mom is a bit tomboyish.
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