Fever Pitch
When Ben Wrightman, a young teacher, begins dating pretty businesswoman Lindsey Meeks, the two don't seem to have a lot of the same interests, but they fall in love, regardless. Their romance goes well until baseball season begins, and Lindsey soon realizes that Ben is completely obsessed with the Boston Red Sox. Though she tries to understand Ben's passionate team loyalty, eventually it threatens to end their otherwise happy relationship.
Undrafted
A team of misfit intramural baseball players become important to a player who was overlooked in the MLB draft, as he tries to come to grips with his dashed dream.
Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story
The first and only Taiwanese player for the New York Yankees, Chien-Ming Wang held many titles: American League Wins Leader, World Series Champion, Olympian, Time 100 Most Influential, and The Pride of Taiwan. He had it all - until a 2008 injury forever altered the course of his career. Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story - named after the late sinking action on his signature pitch - follows the rise and fall of the international icon as he fights his way back into the Major Leagues through endless rehab programs and lengthy stints away from home, carrying the weight of the world on his battered shoulder. A poignant and intimate account of Wang’s steadfast quest, Late Life tells the story of a man who is unwilling to give up and unable to let go.
The Natural
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
The Winning Team
Poor health and alcoholism force Grover Cleveland Alexander out of baseball, but through his wife's faithful efforts, he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption.
The Perfect Game
Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.
Resisting Roots
Genevieve Harper makes the most out of raising her two siblings after their parents' tragic accident. At just 24, Viv has devoted herself to providing her family with the best life possible, sacrificing her own dreams along the way. When Trent Fox, a known player on and off the baseball field, shows up at Viv’s job, the Lotus House Yoga Center to recuperate, the attraction between the two of them is instant. But Viv does not have time to devote to a man, let alone a man who will only break her heart. Can love grow between a woman who’s rooted in her life and a man who resists any notion of setting roots down?
Facing Nolan
In the world of Major League Baseball no one has created a mythology like Nolan Ryan. Told from the point of view of the hitters who faced him and the teammates who revered him, Facing Nolan is the definitive documentary of a Texas legend.
The Scout
When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska. Soon, the New York Yankees put a $55 million contract on the table—provided a psychiatrist can affirm Nebraska's mental stability.
Shot Heard 'Round the World
With one swing of a bat, Bobby Thomson became a legend. His dramatic home run on October 3, 1951, led the New York Giants to win the National League pennant over the rival Brooklyn Dodgers. This documentary looks at the teams, personalities and events that combined to create one of the most heated pennant races ever witnessed...one that ended with an unforgettable homer.
The Prisoner of Zenda, Inc.
When young computer genius Rudy inherits his father's business his avaricious uncle has him kidnapped and held hostage until the boy signs off all rights to the lucrative enterprise. Not wanting the uncle to control, a pair of corporate executives happen upon a youth who looks just like the missing heir. In hopes of keeping the business afloat, they substitute him at the board meetings.
City Without Baseball
In a Hong Kong city where baseball culture is non-existent, baseball players are a minority by choice. The experience teaches them to be free-thinkers in dealing with love, friendship and their own sexuality.
A Shattered Diamond
A story of a group friends as they deal with the loss of one of their own, and learn how to move on.
Black Irish
In South Boston, where Irish roots run deep and Catholic tradition reigns, two brothers face similar hardships but lead far different lives. While older brother Terry descends into drugs and crime, 16-year-old Cole vies to make the state baseball championships - but must struggle to withstand his brother's destructive influence.
Chance
A true story of a teenage love triangle leading to one of the two boys' tragic death - told through the lens of elite youth baseball.
Elmer, the Great
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
Running the Bases
When a small-town baseball coach gets the offer of a lifetime from a larger 6A high school, he uproots his family and leaves the only home he's ever known. But as a man of faith, he soon faces extreme opposition to his coaching methods from the school superintendent.
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
A small time promotor/hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.
HOPE one in a billion
This documentary showcases the story of Gift Ngoepe, the first person from Africa to play in the world's biggest baseball competition, the major league baseball (MLB) in the USA. Gift grew up in a baseball clubhouse in South Africa where his mother worked as a housekeeper. His love for baseball has been developed from an early age in a society where baseball is regarded as a sport for the elite. In spite of the odds Gift kept on persevering. Along his journey, he has inspired young upcoming baseball players from a similar background.
Mr. Baseball
Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?
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Peter Farrelly
Director
Isabella Fink
as
Audrey
Stephen King
as
Himself
Drew Barrymore
as
Lindsey
KaDee Strickland
as
Robin
Joseph Mazzello
Director
Robert Curtis Brown
as
Brian Murray
Michael Bunin
as
Officer Redmond
Philipp Maximilian
as
Spectator
Barry Levinson
Director
Darren McGavin
as
Gus Sands
Robert Duvall
as
Max Mercy
Kim Basinger
as
Memo Paris
Joe Don Baker
as
The Whammer
Thomas Browne Henry
as
Carlson Carlton - Lecturer
Alex Sharp
as
First Baseman
Dayton Lummis
as
Graham McNamee
Frances Fisher
as
Betty
Tony Revolori
as
Fidel Ruiz
Ruben Garfias
as
Senor Suarez
Carlos Gómez
as
Umberto Macias
Brady Hepner
as
Rowan
Lou Ferrigno Jr.
as
Trent
George W. Bush
as
J.K. Simmons
as
Assistant Coach
Dianne Wiest
as
Doctor H. Aaron
Barry Shabaka Henley
as
McDermott
Marcia Rodd
as
Mrs. Lacy
Jerry Lewis
as
Self
Larry King
as
Self
Liev Schreiber
as
Self - Narrator
Jed Rees
as
Buddy
Stephen E. Miller
as
Coach Palmer
Campbell Lane
as
Lawyer #1
Jesse Moss
as
Schoolmate
Sean Li
as
Bartender
Jackie Chow
as
Jackie - Third Baseman
Scud
as
Team mate
Michael Angarano
as
Cole McKay
Brendan Gleeson
as
Desmond McKay
Emily VanCamp
as
Kathleen McKay
Tom Guiry
as
Terry McKay
Peter Holden
as
Burley
Blake Cooper
as
Chance 16
Tanner Buchanan
as
Colton
Matthew Modine
as
Mike
Mervyn LeRoy
Director
George Chandler
as
Cubs Player
Gus Leonard
as
Nosey Townsman
Gale Gordon
as
Radio Announcer
Douglass Dumbrille
as
Stillman
Todd Terry
as
Michael Jamison
Cameron Arnett
as
Sam Parker
Tomisaburô Wakayama
as
Coach Shimizu
Regis Philbin
as
Harry Hahn
Gene LeBell
as
Mean Bones' Manager
Larry Pennell
as
Howie Gold
Tom Selleck
as
Jack Elliot
Art LaFleur
as
Skip
Ken Takakura
as
Uchiyama
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