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22) The perfect game
Pub. Date
2011
Description
After Cesar's major league career is cut short, he returns to his native Monterey, Mexico. Once back home, a group of impoverished baseball-loving kids recruit him to coach their ragtag team. Together, they beat the odds and overcome hardships and bigotry to compete in the 1957 Little League World Series.
25) Mr. 3000
Description
Stan Ross was a great Major League hitter, and also a major league jerk. Upon reaching his 3000th hit and securing his place in the Hall of Fame, Stan retires, leaving his team in a lurch just before the playoffs. 9 years later when Stan is on the verge of sports immortality, a statistical error reveals that Stan, "Mr. 3000", is really Stan, "Mr. 2997". Now, at nearly 50 years old, and 3 hits shy of hitting his goal, Stan decides to make a comeback....
26) Stealing home
Pub. Date
[c1999]
Description
An ex-ballplayer returns home, thinking of the past and of the person who made it special. A long-time friend and mentor draws the loose ends of his past and present lives together.
Pub. Date
2013
Description
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
28) Beer league
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A group of misfits have weekly softball games that descend more into fights for macho dominance than making home runs. When love enters his life, it unexpectedly alters Artie's low self-esteem; and the odds for winning, not only the league trophy but a new life, are considerably amped.
30) The natural
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A once-promising baseball player on his way to stardom in the big leagues, finds his dreams shattered when a mysterious woman and a silver bullet end his career prematurely. Sixteen years later, armed with his childhood bat "Wonderboy," comes back to baseball, joins the roster of the lowly New York Knights to see if he can overcome physical pain and the nefarious forces around him and lead his team to the pennant.
32) The rookie
Pub. Date
[2002]
Formats
Description
When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up to his end of the deal. While there prove to be a lot...
33) The Sandlot
Pub. Date
2001, c1993
Description
Bookish Scotty Smalls moves to a new town, becomes friends with eight neighborhood boys, and begins the summer of a lifetime.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When a lawsuit creates a little league team with players no one else wanted, Morris Buttermaker agrees to coach the team using his own unique approach to sports; the Bears must find a new coach to help them play at the Astrodome in Houston; the Bears travel to Japan to play against the best Japanese little league team.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Love them or hate them, the Yankees remain the most successful team in American sports history. Behind George M. Steinbrenner, a man who with his passing in July 2010 proved to be as iconic to the team as its pinstripes, the Yankees restored their storied sports stature with 7 World Championships. Through all the ups and downs of his reign, "The Boss" managed to link the legends and legacy of Yankees past to Yankees present.
37) The scout
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A down and out baseball scout finds a truly amazing player in a small Mexican town, however, the player is literally crazy.
38) Major League II
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
The diehard Cleveland Indians who went from worst to first in a wacky season now cope with fame and its perks as the team tries to hit, hustle and joke its way back to the top.
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