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AmerAsian
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Eric, an American-born Asian college graduate, must borrow a younger student's identity to take back the one last year of baseball he lost when his dad past away. Monica, his Coach's All-American daughter, must ascertain her own questionable identity in order to come to terms with the years of abuse she suffered after her mom passed away. [Trailer] (2007) |
Stars: Roger Lim, Chris Smothers, Christopher Plumber, Shannon Gayle, Bobby Dodge, Kristin Pesceone.
Runtime: 103 minutes. |
American Asian
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Eric, an AmerAsian graduate, once again assumes a younger athlete's identity to take back his one last year of college baseball. Along his journey, he develops a close connection with head Coach Pierce and an innocent friendship with Amy, the team's assistant athletic trainer. Struggling through physical, emotional, and spiritual adversity, Eric winds up on the same field opposite a pair of racist enemies from his dark past. Now he is forced to play in a game that threatens to bring his career, and his freedom, to an abrupt end. [Trailer] (2010) |
Stars: Roger Lim, Angel Monroe, Andy Hnilo, Bruce Childs, Harry Triplett. |
AmerAsian 3: Young Again
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American-born Asian graduate student, Eric Young, is lured back to college baseball field one final time, passing himself off as 10 years younger to try out for the Division 2 Volcanos. There's double identity, self deception and steroid abuse. [Trailer] (2011) |
Stars: Roger Lim, Christopher Sean, Lori McShane.
Rated R
Runtime: 105 minutes. |
Babe Comes Home
 
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Babe Ruth plays Babe Dugan, home run whiz of the Los Angeles Angels (a minor-league team in 1927). Babe's habit of chewing tobacco makes him the bane of the Snow White Laundry, which has to clean his juice-stained uniforms after every game. Laundress Vernie (Anna Q. Nilsson) attends an Angels game to see for herself just how one man can be so messy. Babe hits a fly ball, which hits Vernie in the eye. From this bad start, a romance develops. (1927) |
Stars: Babe Ruth, Anna Q. Nilsson, Louise Fazenda.
Runtime: 60 minutes. |
Big Leaguer
 
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John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22 year old hopefuls to pick the best for a minor league contract. They all have dreams and talent, but the elimination whittles them down to a lucky few who will get the $150 a month contract. This year John's niece comes down from the home office in New York and is attracted to tall quiet Adam. (1953) |
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Vera-Ellen.
Runtime: 71 minutes. |
Bleacher Boys
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Bleacher Boys is the story of five men who shared a common dream as boys, the dream of growing up and playing major league baseball. Five men, each of whose dream was dashed at an early age due to blindness, as if the stadium lights suddenly went dark. [Trailer] (2009) |
Stars: Ed Lucas, Patrick Cannon, Neal Freeling, Paul Paravanno, Craig Lynch.
Runtime: 80 minutes. |
Breaking into the Big Leagues
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Silent one-reel film featuring New York Giants pitcher, Christy Mathewson. (1913) |
Stars: Harry F. Millarde, Marguerite Courtot, Henry Hallam, John J. McGraw, Christy Mathewson |
Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush
 
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From Jackie Robinson's breaking baseball's color barrier to their move to Los Angeles, a dozen years later, the Dodgers epitomize the diverse working-class. By 1955, Ebbets Field is crumbling, ticket sales are off, fans have moved to the suburbs, and Robert Moses is blocking Walter O'Malley's plan to build a stadium at the terminus of the Long Island Railroad. When Los Angeles makes O'Malley an offer he can't refuse, an era comes to an end: in 1958 the Dodgers and cross-town-rival Giants go West, leaving the ghosts of Flatbush. (2007) |
Featuring: Jackie Robinson's widow, Rachel Robinson; former players; former Dodgers general manager Emil J. "Buzzie" Bavasi; former Dodgers owner Peter O'Malley.
Runtime: 120 minutes |
The Busher
 
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Young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues. But will he be up to the challenge? (1919) |
Stars: Charles Ray, Colleen Moore, John Gilbert, Margaret Livingston.
Runtime: 55 minutes. |
Calvin Marshall
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Calvin Marshall's childhood dream of playing Major League Baseball is in serious jeopardy as he can't seem to make the Bayford Bisons Junior College team. A poignant comedy about Calvin's deferred dream and the people in his life who want him to succeed. [Trailer] (2010) |
Stars: Alex Frost, Steve Zahn, Michelle Lombardo. |
Casey At The Bat
 
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In the June 3, 1888 issue of The Examiner, Ernest Lawrence Thayer published the poem "Casey At The Bat" about an umpire who gets beat up by a batter after calling a strike call. In 1899, it became a 40 second Edison short. It has been remade many times over the years with the recitation of the poem. (1899, 1913, 1916, 1922, 1927, 1946 Disney Cartoon, 2005)
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Actors who played Casey: Harry T. Morey (1913), DeWolf Hopper Sr. (1916 & 1922), Wallace Beery (1927).
Runtime: 40 seconds to 60 minutes. |
The Comeback Kid
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A down and out former minor league ballplayer finds romance and a renewed zest for life when he takes a job coaching a group of underprivileged kids. (1980) |
Stars: John Ritter, Susan Dey, Patrick Swayze.
Runtime: 97 minutes. |
Cooperstown
 
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A baseball pitcher who never had quite the professional career he dreamed about is visited by the ghost of his former catcher, for whom he always harbored a secret jealousy. The spirit of the catcher gets him to revisit people and places from his past and gives him a new perspective on his life. (1993) |
Stars: Ernie Harwell, Miles Perlich, Byron Thames, Robbie T. Robinson, Jason Orman.
Rated PG |
Deadly Strike
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To boost morale at Dirkschneider Inc., Boss Franz decides to create a company baseball team. In short time, members of the group wind up dead due to baseball related deaths. Could this be the revenge of failed mascot Homer Pinstripe? [Watch Film] (2008) |
Stars: Todd Therrien, Caitlin Robert, Aurora Grabill, Richard Chandler, George Rose, Christine McFadyed, Mike Nigro, Mike Goodreau.
Runtime: 20 minutes. |
Diamond in the Dunes
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Muslim Uyghur and Han Chinese students at China's Xinjiang University live segregated lives, except on the baseball field. Lacking enough students from a single ethnic group, they need each other to play baseball. Diamond in the Dunes is a documentary that follows this team and their charismatic captain, Parhat Ablat, as they overcome ethnic differences and prepare for their only game of the season. [Trailer] (2009) |
Stars: Parhat Ablat
Runtime: 80 minutes. |
Dizzy & Daffy
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A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for the St. Louis Cardinals. [Watch Film] (1934) |
Stars: Dizzy Dean, Daffy Dean, Roscoe Ates, Shemp Howard, Richard Cramer.
Runtime: 18 minutes. |
Eden Court
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Eden Court is a dramatic comedy of a washed up baseball star stuck in a trailer park trying to escape his current world by running off to Australia in pursuit of his "American Dream." The only problem is that it's his 30th birthday and his wife, family, and friends won't let him leave home without a fight. [Trailer] (2007) |
Stars: Thomas Lennon, Kimberly Williams-Paisley.
Runtime: 90 minutes.
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Eye On The Dream
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The 10-part TV-documentary series is about summer amateur wooden-bat baseball in the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL), which chronicles young men chasing their dream of playing professional baseball. For some of these young men, this is their first opportunity to experience life as a real ballplayer. For others, it might be their last. The real-life trials and tribulations unfold both on-field and off and captures an authentic glimpse into just how arduous, and sometimes thankless, the business of chasing dreams can be. (2007) |
Developed by: P.J. Moynihan & Alex Niefer. |
Fancy Curves
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Babe Ruth teaches an all girls baseball team. [Watch Film] (1932) |
Stars: Babe Ruth.
Runtime: 9 minutes. |
Fireman, Save My Child
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Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small home town. He gets an offer to play in a big team, he hopes to get more money for his inventions. But he is invited to present his invention to a fire-extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game? (1932) |
Stars: Joe E. Brown, Evalyn Knapp, Lilian Bond.
Runtime: 67 minutes. |
Girls Can Play
 
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Sports writer, Jimmy Jones, yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris, is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey. (1937) |
Stars: Jacqueline Wells (later renamed Julie Bishop), Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth.
Runtime: 59 minutes. |
The Gladiators
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The Gladiators is an inspirational family film about Jimmy Easton, an up and coming pro baseball player whose career is cut short by a devastating knee injury. Through a series of unpredictable events, Jimmy is involuntarily thrust back into the world of baseball - not as a player, but as a college coach. In search of a new identity for his life, Jimmy battles past demons as he tries to lead a team of athletic misfits out of the depths of baseball obscurity. (2009). |
Stars: Ronald D. Alcazar, Sarah Blackford, ChrisAnn Brunsmann, Edward Bullard.
Runtime: 93 minutes. |
Goodbye Franklin High
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A high school athlete who must choose between the certainty of college or the possibility of a baseball career. Everyone associated with the boy has a different opinion, making the final decision all the more dramatic. (1978) |
Stars: Lane Caudell, Ann Dusenberry, Darby Hinton.
Runtime: 96 minutes. |
Gracie At The Bat
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Old-time baseball player Clyde becomes the manager of a girl's softball team, the Fairmont Fillies, in this comedy that plays to his strength as a comic reactor. (1937) |
Stars: Andy Clyde, Vernon Dent, Ann Doran.
Runtime: 18 minutes. |
The Great American Pastime
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Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact, that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife. (1956) |
Stars: Tom Ewell, Anne Francis, Ann Miller.
Runtime: 90 minutes. |
Headin' Home
 
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Babe Ruth in his motion picture debut plays a character, appropriately named Babe, a country boy who the locals consider useless. He thinks he's got some batting talent, but no one will take him seriously until a rival team comes to town and engages him when their one of their own players can't make it. Babe hits a ball that soars five blocks and smashes through a church window. From that point on, his future fame is assured. [Watch Film] (1920) |
Stars: Babe Ruth, William Sheer, Ruth Taylor.
Runtime: 55 minutes. |
The Heckler
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An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody. (1940) |
Stars: Charley Chase, Bruce Bennett, Don Beddoe, Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent, Monty Collins, Bess Flowers.
Runtime: 20 minutes. |
Henry O
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Documentary about blind Spanish-language color commentator for the Tampa Bay Devil Ray's, Enrique "Henry" Oliu, who does the impossible - he calls a game he's never seen. [Trailer] (2009) |
Stars: Ziad H. Hamzeh, Enrique Oliu, Debbie Perry.
Runtime: 76 minutes. |
Hit and Run
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A baseball scout gets off a train in the middle of the Western desert where a baseball game is undeway. Here, he finds and signs Swat Anderson, who also falls in love with the scout's sister. The team's crooked treasurer becomes jealous of the couple's relationship, and he kidnaps the sister knowing that Swat will come to her rescue. (1924) |
Stars: Hoot Gibson, Marion Harlan, Cyril Ring.
Runtime: 54 minutes. |
Hit to Right
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Sam Lewis has become cautious, safer and more disciplined in life and raising his daughter Amy; He brings this approach to coaching his daughter's softball team, the classic baseball "hit to right" approach. Laura, Amy's teacher, does not share Sam's philosophies on life or baseball so when Sam needs Laura's help to coach the team while he runs for Senate there are clashes but eventually, he learns to relax and enjoy life. [Official Site] (2009) |
Stars: Alan Schneier, Laura Stepp, Kaija Matiss.
Runtime: 85 minutes. |
Home
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In this documentary, York, Pennsylvania has long been the quintessential, salt-of-the-earth American town. When municipal, county and area business leaders unveiled a plan to level part of a low-income, residential neighborhood and build a minor league stadium, promising it to be the catalyst behind millions in urban redevelopment, who could argue? But what happens to those who lived in this neighborhood and made way for stadium? This is the story of baseball, urban redevelopment and the human cost of bringing them to York. [Trailer] (2009) |
Stars: Cameron Texter.
Runtime: 70 minutes |
Home Run on the Keys
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Babe Ruth returns from a duck-hunting trip to a cabin shared by musicians Zez Confrey and Byron Gay, and the three of them are inspired to knock off a little highly-forgettable ditty called "Home Run on the Keys." Ruth also takes time to tell of the home run he called on a third strike, but manages to describe it coming in an incorrect situation. The three go back to New York to appear on a radio program where they play their new hit. [Watch Film] (1937) |
Stars: Babe Ruth, Zez Confrey, Byron Gay.
Runtime: 9 minutes. |
Insignificance
 
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Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) meet in this modern fable of post-WWII America. (1985) |
Stars: Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, Theresa Russell, Michael Emil.
Runtime: 110 minutes. |
Joe Torre: Curveballs Along The Way
 
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Joe Torre grew up on the diamond, played for 18 years, and coached for 14, but in all that time, never once made it to the World Series. Now he's the new coach for the New York Yankees, and he wants the championship. Everyone in New York is predicting Joe will be out by the end of the season. To the world, it's hopeless. To Joe, it's a beginning. (1997) |
Stars: Paul Sorvino, Robert Loggia, Barbara Williams.
Rated PG
Runtime: 85 minutes. |
The Kid From Cleveland
 
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Teen baseball fan Johnny Barrows sneaks into the baseball stadium of the Cleveland Indians, then playing in the 1948 World Series; claiming to be an orphan, he befriends team members & broadcaster Mike Jackson. But it develops that Johnny has a troubled home life with his mother and stepfather, and is involved in juvenile crime. His better side shows only when he runs away to visit the team again. Can Mike and the Indians wrest Johnny away from bad influences? (1949) |
Stars: George Brent, Lynn Bari, Russ Tamblyn.
Runtime: 89 minutes. |
Ladies Day
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A top baseball pitcher loses his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. His teammates try to get him to settle down with one woman so they can start winning some games. (1943) |
Stars: Lupe Velez, Eddie Albert, Patsy Kelly.
Runtime: 62 minutes. |
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
 
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Legendary ballplayer and humanitarian Lou Gehrig and his relationship with his stalwart wife, Eleanor are portrayed in this film that focuses on the Hall of Famer's life off the baseball field. Featuring unflinching looks at the Gehrig's relationship, as well as Lou's feud with Babe Ruth. This film is for anyone interested in baseball. (1978) |
Stars: Blythe Danner, Edward Herrmann, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Ramon Bieri.
Runtime: 96 minutes. |
The Marksmen
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A native Wausau boy named Tommy Madden makes it to big league baseball, but is forced to leave in disgrace. He returns home after the sudden death of his mother, and faces his father's disappointment in him, even though others consider him a hero. With the comfort of his high school sweetheart, he faces his past and leads a new team, The Marksmen, made up of his hometown buddies, to the national softball fastpitch tournament. (1997) |
Stars: Jay Schillinger, Martha Byrne, Steve Kanaly, Martin Kove. |
Mean Streak
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The hitting record of Joe Dimaggio is about to broken by a black player. Now a person who feels that it is sacred threatens that player if he breaks the record. Lou Mattoni, a detective, who is a little racist, is assigned to the case, and he is also forced to work with Altman Rogers, an FBI agent who is black. While the two of them don't particularly care for one another, they try and do their best to get this guy before he makes good on his threat. (1999) |
Stars: Scott Bakula, Leon, Bridgid Coulter.
Rated R
Runtime: 95 minutes. |
Mint Conditioned
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Jackie comes up with the ultimate scheme: partnering with children to steal their fathers' vintage baseball cards. Jackie organizes his crew and the money starts rolling in, but he wants to take his scheme further--to the Internet. The only problem is, neither Jackie nor any of his half-witted crew members know anything about the web, forcing Jacking to scramble to survive in the seedy underworld of black-market baseball card deals. [Trailer] (2007) |
Stars: Ryan Omvig, David Davis, Michael Caleb.
Runtime: 24 minutes |
Mr. Noisy
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This remake of "The Heckler" has a noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers, to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when the heckler loses his voice. (1946) |
Stars: Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent, Brian O'Hara.
Runtime: 17 minutes. |
Off The Black
 
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An aging high school baseball umpire Ray Cook calls a pitch from Dave Tibbel a ball when it may have been a strike, and causes them to lose the game. Dave Tibbel seek revenge by trashing the ump's house. Instead of having Tibble arrested, the two form an unusual bond. [Trailer] (2006) |
Stars: Trevor Morgan, Nick Nolte, Rosemarie DeWitt.
Rated R
Runtime: 91 minutes. |
Over The Fence
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Babe Ruth saves kids from an arithmetic class so they can play baseball instead. [Watch Film] (1932) |
Stars: Babe Ruth.
Runtime: 10 minutes. |
Pinch Hitter
 
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Shy Joel Parker seems bound for nowhere, until Abbie Nettleton enters his life. With her prodding, Joel goes from timid nobody to a baseball star with bravura. (1917) |
Stars: Joseph J. Dowling, Louis Durham, Darrel Foss, Charles Ray, Jerome Storm.
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PlayByPlayMen
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They're the storytellers of those warm summer nights, for kids of all ages who never had the chance to get near a major league ballpark, but instead cradled radios against their ears to hear the calls of America's favorite pastime - baseball. PlayByPlay Men and the art of the perfect call is a documentary film devoted to those broadcasters who dedicate their lives to making that perfect call, and stars some of the most well-known baseball announcers of all time. [Trailer] (2007) |
Joe Angel, Joe Castiglione, Ernie Harwell, Pat Hughs, Dave Niehaus.
Runtime: 76 minutes |
Playing With The Enemy
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After being drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers as a 15-year-old prodigy in 1940, Gene Moore joined the Navy and was stationed at a prisoner of war camp in Louisiana where he taught German POWs how to play baseball. [Official Site] (2010) |
Stars: Toby Moore, Gary Moore. |
Pride Against Prejudice: The Larry Doby Story
 
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In 1947, the year Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, Bill Veeck signed Larry Doby to the Cleveland Indians. The film traces Doby's career and argues that Doby, Robinson, Veeck, and Branch Rickey's contributions were not just to baseball, but to U.S. history. (2007) |
Narrated by: Louis Gossett Jr.
Runtime: 90 minutes. |
Roogie's Bump
 
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A young boy who loves baseball develops a strange bump on his arm. The bump has such an effect on his pitching arm that he soon finds himself playing for a major league baseball team. (1954) |
Stars: Ruth Warrick, Olive Blakeney, William Harrigan.
Runtime: 71 minutes. |
Rounding Home
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Justin Mills wants to play professional baseball and earns a spot on a minor league team. Justin also meets Katey, the cutest girl in town. His best friend, Wes, visits Justin at the ball field to congratulate him, but Wes is struck by a car and killed. This horrific event sends Justin into an emotional coma. Justin attempts to cope with this and additional life hurdles, but his detachment causes him to make all the wrong decisions. (2006) |
Stars: Michael Wallace, Kathryn Michelle, Nic d'Avirro.
Runtime: 83 minutes. |
Slide, Babe, Slide
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Babe Ruth gets off a train, and joins in a baseball game with some kids who refuse to believe he is the Babe until one of them produces a newspaper. (1932) |
Stars: Babe Ruth.
Runtime: 10 minutes. |
Slide, Kelly, Slide
 
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Jim Kelly is a self-styled baseball whiz who talks himself into a job with the New York Yankees. Though his boundless braggadocio is backed up by his talent on the baseball field, Kelly soon alienates himself from the rest of his teammates. Veteran Yankee catcher Tom Munson -- also the father of Kelly's sweetheart Mary -- tries to set the young upstart straight, but Kelly isn't interested. (1927) |
Stars: William Haines, Sally O'Neil, Harry Carey.
Runtime: 80 minutes. |
Somewhere In Georgia
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The film casts Cobb as himself, a bank clerk with a talent for baseball. When he's signed to play with the Detroit Tigers, Cobb is forced to leave his sweetheart behind, whereupon a crooked bank cashier sets his sights on the girl. The cashier arranges for Cobb to be kidnapped. Breaking loose from his bonds, Cobb beats up each each and every one of his captors and shows up at the ballfield, just in time to win the game. (1916) |
Stars: Ty Cobb, Elsie MacLeod, William Corbett.
Rated NR
Runtime: 30 minutes. |
Speedy
 
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Speedy loses his job as a soda-jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. (1928) |
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Brooks Benedict, Babe Ruth.
Runtime: 85 minutes. |
Touching Home
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The true story about a father struggling to make amends with his twin sons as they pursue their dreams of professional baseball. (2008) |
Stars: Ed Harris, Brad Dourif, Robert Forster.
Runtime: 108 minutes |
Touching Home: Baseball In The Bushes
 
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A close-up look into the world of low level professional baseball. This film follows the team in preseason during tryouts and until the last pitch in September. The film goes everywhere - road trips, practices, games, homes, dugouts, locker rooms. It touches base with owners, general managers, managers, players, coaches, fans, radio broadcasters, host families, etc. It shows how much goes on behind the scenes in a baseball season. And the effort needed to keep a franchise alive in Independent Baseball. (2005) |
Stars: Documentary.
Rated: PG
Runtime: 55 minutes |
Two Mugs From Brooklyn
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A pair of cabdrivers recall in flashback how they built up their thriving taxi business. Tim was quite a baseball pitcher, and it was this skill that enabled him to collect a huge reward by subduing racketeer Glorio with a well-aimed monkey wrench. (1942) |
Stars: William Bendix, Grace Bradley, Joe Sawyer, Sheldon Leonard.
Runtime: 73 minutes. |
Whistling In Brooklyn
 
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A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder. [Trailer] (1943) |
Stars: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Rags Ragland, Jean Rogers.
Runtime: 87 minutes. |
Workin' For Peanuts
 
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The daughter of a stadium owner and a young stadium vendor become romantically involved. Complications ensue because of the teenagers' diverse social class and economic backgrounds. His dad is out of work, she spends winters in Aspen and summers in Switzerland. Her parents and friends are against the relationship as well and then he begins to have thoughts too. (1985) |
Stars: Jessica Steen, Carl Marotte, Shawn David Thompson, August Schellenberg, John Hemphill, Elva Mai Hoover.
Runtime: 52 minutes. |
Yankees West
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The story of the Pacific Coast League and also a love story - that of Earl, a PCL-favored player, and Emma, a Hollywood starlet - against the backdrop of gangsters, racism, nearly forgotten history, and the raw original game of baseball. Earl works his way through the PCL in hopes to be traded to a Major League Baseball team, only to be hampered by management greed and dirty ball playing. Emma, an actress, wants to be a star and is not willing to give up that dream. In the end, neither ends up with what they originally thought, yet their love does survive. (2008) |
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The Yankles
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About Charlie Jones, a washed up, ex-major league ballplayer, and how he gets a second chance at life and love by managing a Jewish, orthodox yeshiva baseball team. (2009) |
Stars: Brian Wimmer, Bart Johnson, Don Most.
Rated: PG
Runtime: 115 minutes. |
