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Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c1973
Edition
Widescreen version (1.85:1).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty star in this superbly crafted film about the unlikely friendship between two baseball players. Moriarty plays the team's ace pitcher and social charmer; De Niro is the catcher, a farm boy from Georgia who lacks all of Moriarty's sophistication. He is also dying. During their last season together on a team fraught with bickering and infighting, the two men grow into manhood and respect for themselves and each other....
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
3) The natural
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nothing was going to stop Roy Hobbs from fulfilling his boyhood dream of baseball stardom. As a 14-year old he fashions a baseball bat from an oak tree. He soon impresses major league scouts with his ability. His talent also catches the eye of a sportswriter who eventually becomes instrumental in Hobbs' career. The appearance of a mysterious woman, however, shatters his dream. Years later Hobbs reappears as a rookie for the New York Knights and has...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the world of 1980s college life, it follows a group of college baseball players as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. Get ready for the best weekend ever.
5) Take me out
Author
Publisher
Stage and Screen
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
146 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
6) Mr. 3000
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former pro baseball player Calvin Campbell's faith in God is restored when he meets Produce, an inspirational man with Down syndrome. As their friendship develops, Calvin is reminded that hope grows in the most unlikely places.
9) Damn Yankees
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Starring the original Broadway cast, this is the musical adaptation of the novel 'The Year The Yankees Won The Pennant'. A Washington Senators fan sells his soul to the devil to become a great baseball player and to help his favorite team win the pennant.
10) The phenom
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ever since Hopper was a child, he has dreamed of becoming a major-league pitcher. Relentlessly pushed and punished by his abusive father, he's on the verge of becoming one of the game's most promising players when he unexpectedly breaks down on the mound. Now Hopper's only hope for a future lies with an unorthodox sports therapist who urges him to piece together the past and confront the man who is both bully and family.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1946, Branch Rickey, ... owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball's infamous color line when he signed Jackie Robinson ... to the team. The deal put both men in the crosshairs of the public, the press and even other players. Facing unabashed racism from every side, Robinson was forced to demonstrate tremendous courage and let his talent on the field win over fans and his teammates"--Container.
13) Field of dreams
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Two-disc anniversary ed., widescreen [ed.].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a mysterious voice, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella constructs a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield.
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
115 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Star center fielder Darren Lemming's announcement that he is gay causes a great deal of turmoil and hostility for his teammates on the champion New York Empires, especially for racist and homophobic pitcher, Shane Mungitt.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A successful player for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team attempts to balance domestic life, service to God and country after suddenly becoming active for the U.S Air Force and being promoted to commanding a B-36 bomber crew.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Montgomery Brewster is a down-and-out baseball player who discovers that he is the only living relative of an eccentric multimillionaire. Monty stands to inherit $300 million, but only if he can spend $30 million in a single month without acquiring any assets. If he fails, it's back to zero again.
17) How do you know
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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?
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the world of 1980s college life, it follows a group of college baseball players as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. Get ready for the best weekend ever.
19) Undrafted
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story. When collegiate star John Mazetti is skipped over by the MLB draft, an intramural baseball game with misfit teammates suddenly becomes life changing.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
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