Donnie Baseball (2022)

En Florida, John Lobert dirige los entrenamientos de los Giants de Nueva York. Él es el encargado de seleccionar a los mejores jugadores de 18 a 22 años para jugar en la liga de béisbol. Todos tienen sueños y talento, pero sólo habrá unos pocos afortunados que consigan un contrato. Tras trabajar en la década de los 40 como ayudante de directores de la talla de Milestone, Renoir, Losey, Polonsky o Chaplin, Aldrich debutó con este film de serie B, que se basó en una producción televisiva de gran éxito entre 1953 y 1954: "China Smith/Captain China", en la que él había dirigido un par de episodios. La compañía productora, Allied Artists, contrató a muchos de los actores de la serie de televisión ( Dan Duryea o Douglass Dumbrille) y utilizó los mismos decorados de "China" y de la colonia británica de "Singapur".

True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.

Alex believed in his baseball hero Billy Young. When Billy's performance struggled, Alex's friends began to doubt Alex; and Billy began to doubt himself. Alex wants to prove to his friends, to Billy, and to himself that believing in someone can make the difference.

Several new different Peanuts sketches are featured in this TV special, adapted from the comic strip, including Peppermint Patty's stint at dog training school and Charlie Brown spending time in the hospital.

Based on the book “The Legend of Mickey Tussler”, this film follows the story of eighteen-year-old Mickey Tussler, who lives on a farm with his father and mother and who has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism. But he can throw apples at an amazing speed. When a chance meeting occurs with the baseball manager of the semi-pro team the River Rats, from Clayton, Ohio, Mickey gets a chance to pitch for the team and to prove to his father he can do more than live hidden away on the family farm, taking care of his pig Oscar.

It's the day of the big baseball game between the Drips and the Droops and Woody Woodpecker is trying to crash the gate and get in without paying for a ticket. A policeman keeps tossing him out but Woody puts on a baseball uniform---including a baseball-cap, since baseball players do not wear hats---gets inside and soon gets involved with the game. He ends up pinned to the scoreboard by a deluge of baseballs thrown by everybody in the ballpark.

Fred manages a little league baseball team that seems absolutely hopeless, except for a player that he blindly refuses to recognize.

This short film highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.

A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.

This inspiring true story of four minor league baseball players charts the course of one season with the Indianapolis Indians, the Triple-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Alguien está asesinando a los jugadores de los Cardinals de St. Louis. Ahora el pitcher del equipo es la próxima víctima (y de hecho ya ha sufrido dos atentados).

Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for baseball to his son, Christie. When his dad gets fired, Chris makes friends with the former team owner's niece (and her boyfriend Pete), and not only gets his dad's job back, but a batboy position for himself. With his dad's help, Christie begins to make a few suggestions here and there. And as a publicity stunt, the team makes him their youngest manager on record. But when Chris gets sick, Coop has to come to the rescue.

Centuries ago, the monks of the Cult of the Blood Symbol went searching for their "chosen one" whose blood, they believed, would make them immortal. Olam, the only living survivor of the cult, finally finds his intended victim in Tracy Walker, a fiesty, athletic college student. Patiently, deliberately, Olam prepares to take the one he's been waiting centuries to kill...

After taking a job managing a little league team, a homeless man inspires the kids to reach for it all and they inspire him to reclaim his life.

A documentary about former Major League Baseball player, Bill "The Spaceman" Lee. Lee was the ultimate gonzo player, a brilliant left handed pitcher who defied every manager or front office executive who tried to control him. The fans loved him and so did sportswriters who delighted in asking the usual baseball questions, only to get philosophical responses involving the relationship between existentialism and the curveball or the effects of karma on a pitcher's rotator cuff.

Gus es un veterano ojeador de béisbol que está perdiendo la vista poco a poco debido a su avanzada edad. Por ello decide viajar con su hija Mickey hasta Atlanta para observar a un joven talento. Pero las relaciones entre padre e hija han sido últimamente bastante conflictivas…

Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula.

Historia de la vida del afroamericano Jackie Robinson, legendario jugador de béisbol que rompió las barreras raciales, tras firmar con los Dodgers de Brooklyn bajo la dirección del ejecutivo Branch Rickey. La participación de Robinson en la gran liga de béisbol supuso el fin de una era de segregación racial en este deporte.

Follows the Boston Red Sox' Tim Wakefield and the New York Mets' R.A. Dickey - the only two major league pitchers who use the unpredictable knuckleball - during the 2011 season.

When they write the story of the 1996 World Series, don't be surprised if they write about the heart of a champion. Like the Atlanta Braves, who year after year return to the fall classic on the strength of the best starting pitchers in baseball. And the New York Yankees--A clever mix of youth and veterans--gritty, resilient, and very likeable. Don't be caught off guard if the heroics of Bernie Williams and Jim Levritz are recanted--or the medical miracle that brought David Cone from the operating room to the most important start of his career. When they write the story of the 1996 World Series, it will tell how the Yankees came to captivate a city by battling back from a two-games-to-none deficit, To win four straight against the defending world champions for its 23rd world title--it's first since 1978.