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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....
2) 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.
3) 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.
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
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus--who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat--refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickey, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
8) 61*
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, one was the Yankees' best loved players and the other was their most valuable. 1961 was about to be the summer that no one who loves baseball will ever forget. Both men find that they are approaching Babe Ruth's 1927 single-season 60 home-run record. Facing pressure from the media and the stands, both men know that there is only room for one winner. The fans make their choice, but the people's favorite isn't the favorite...
9) 42
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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.
10) Baseketball
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Joe Cooper and Doug Remer are pitted against two basketball jocks in a game of two-on-two. Cooper and Remer quickly change the contest to something more difficult. They make the rules up as they play, and Baseketball evolves. The game becomes a driveway sensation, and sports entrepreneur Ted Denslow approaches the boys to buy the game and set up a pro league. Baxter Cain, owner of the Dallas Felons, wants to make the sport more lucrative. He needs...
Publisher
Walt Disney Pictures/ Roth Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised nationwide competition called "Million dollar arm" where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the boys learn the game, they teach JB the meaning of teamwork...
12) Hustle
Publisher
ESPN Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Based on the findings of the Major League Baseball's DOWD reports. Pete Rose earned the nickname "Charlie Hustle" for his aggressive style on and off the field. Ironically, the same mind-set that made him Major League Baseball's all-time hit leader ultimately led to his demise. Shortly after achieving baseball immortality, Rose headed down a dark road that would lead to lifetime banishment from the game he loved.
13) How do you know
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A professional softball player discovers she is in the middle of a love triangle after she falls for two different men and wonders when it comes to love, how do you know?
14) Field of dreams
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Annie, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The California Angels are a struggling baseball team praying to win a pennant. Their luck changes as their biggest fan, 11-year-old Roger, begins giving the coach tips from a real live angel. The team not only climbs back into the pennant race, but learns to believe in themselves.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Sandlot: It's the early 1960's and 5th grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his folks. Kids call him a dork because he can't even throw a baseball. But that changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded beast and its owner who live behind the left field...
17) Fences
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
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