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1) The rookie
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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...
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Spring training is over and it's time for the real fun to start. Mihashi's confidence got a huge boost from beating his old school, and now he's more determined than ever to become his team's ace. With Abe calling the pitches, the once shell-shocked hurler feels like he can strike out the world. But things won't be easy for the Nishiura nine in the big summer tournament. They play the defending champs in the first round, and Mihashi comes down with...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Norway, Iowa, the high school baseball team is led by legendary Coach Jim Van Scoyoc who has won 19 State Championships. But the small town heroes are dealt a series of unexpected blows that threaten to rob them of their 20th championship win. Talk of a school merger gets serious and Coach Scoyoc is fired. He is replaced by his 24-year-old assistant coach, Kent Stock. Failure seems inevitable. Based on the true story of Kent Stock....
4) Mr. 3000
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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....
5) Moneyball
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
9) Curveball
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Smart, popular and star pitcher of his high school team, Nolan tries to put his troubled childhood behind him with the help of the two things he could always depend on: his love of baseball and his best friend, Sam. But now that Nolan's future is looking bright and he's happy with a new girlfriend, Sam starts leading him into trouble, playing hard and partying harder.
11) The natural
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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," he 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 to lead his team to the pennant.
13) Eight men out
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Buck Weaver (John Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Charlie Sheen) are two of the talented young players on the pennant-winning 1919 Chicago White Sox team owned by the stingy Charles Comiskey (Clifton James), who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. When gamblers discover that Comiskey’s demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, Buck, Hap and the team are offered bribes to throw the World Series and a national scandal erupts,...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A tragic mistake lands nineteen-year-old baseball phenom Sonny Stano in jail before his burgeoning professional baseball career gets off the ground. Now, twenty years later and fresh out of prison, he works to win back his respect, his family, his lost love and his dream of being a professional baseball player.
16) Field of dreams
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A Iowa farmer hears a voice that instructs him to plow down his crops and construct a baseball field. After doing so, the field is inhabited by spirits of dead baseball players.
Publisher
[Distribted by] Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Baseball all-star Cory Brand knows what it takes to win in the big leagues. But off the field, with memories of his past haunting him, his life is spiraling out of control. With an unexpected second chance, Cory finds himself on a powerful journey of transformation and redemption. Based on thousands of true stories, Home Run is a powerful reminder that with God, it's never too late ... freedom is possible."--Container.
18) The open road
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Minor league baseball player Carlton Garrett takes an unplanned road trip to find his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garrett, after his mother becomes ill. Knowing that his father is charming, yet extremely immature, he brings along his sometimes girlfriend for support. After father and son are reunited, Carlton must struggle to deal with the misadventures brought on by his father's antics. Frustrations from the past come to a head...
19) Henry & me
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It tells the courageous story of Jack, a brave young boy battling cancer. Stripped of his confidence and filled with self-doubt, hope seems lost until a mysterious stranger named Henry appears. With the touch of his pin, Henry sweeps Jack away to a magical world where illness no longer exists and New York Yankee legends play forever. The incredible journey brings Jack face to face with Babe Ruth, Thurman Munson, Lefty Gomez and Mickey Mantle.
20) It ain't over
Author
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Uplifting documentary about Yogi Berra that goes beyond "Yogisms," and into the heart of a sports legend.
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