The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014)
They put balls back in the game.
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 20M
Director : Chapman Way, Maclain Way
Sinopse
A verdadeira e divertida história do Mavericks, um time de beisebol composto por estrelas e atletas aposentados que lutou por um lugar ao Sol.
A troubled, rebellious teen drives his rambunctious baseball team out to Houston where they play an exhibition game and the boy meets his estranged father, and hires him as the teams coach.
História de um menino, cujo braço quebrado cicatriza de uma maneira estraha, mas o deixa com o braço ótimo para arremessos, o que o ajuda a ganhar o título para o time de baseball de Chicago.
While waiting for his date to get ready, a young man bonds with his date's father.
"Truth Be Told: Rick Ankiel" gives insight into Ankiel's personal journey of redemption - overcoming a troubled youth, high expectations, and psychological struggles to achieve success on the field.
The Story of one-handed baseball pitcher Jim Abbott.
From the Big Red Machine to the expansion Arizona Diamondbacks, Bill Plummer has seen and done all there is in baseball. His contributions to the game are endless but little known, until now.
The story of Irish baseball, from County Cork to Fenway Park.
Calvin e os seus amigos, que vivem todos num orfanato, encontram umas sapatilhas velhas com as letras desbotadas MJ penduradas num cabo de electricidade. Numa noite de tempestade, eles vão tentar apanhar as sapatilhas quando Calvin e as sapatilhas são atingidos por um raio. Calvin tem agora poderes inacreditáveis de basquetebol e com eles a hipótese de jogar na NBA.
"As soon as you hear the title to this new one, you know exactly what it's about and why it's likely to be good, especially if you were a sports fan growing up in the 1970s. Even to good boys all the way across the country in New Hampshire, the authority-flouting baseball A's and football Raiders were magical. Not only did they win championships, they did it amid clubhouse brawls, feuds with an owner and a general embrace of the 1960s aesthetic. Filmmakers Rick Bernstein and Ross Greenburg tell the stories of these turbulent, talented teams and show how they perfectly fit their city. Oakland was blue collar and home to hardcore hard-core 1960s rebellion, exemplified by the Black Panthers. Oakland, especially, was not San Francisco, the effete, world-class city across the bay."
Conheça a história pessoal do ex-arremessador do New York Yankees, Carsten Charles "CC" Sabathia Jr.
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
After his agent delivers devastating news, a struggling baseball player seeks to provide his unstable father a Thanksgiving Dinner... by any means necessary.
Andy (Charlie Tahan), um garoto muito doente, vive sob rígida supervisão de seus pais Katherine (Samantha Morton) e Richard (Michael Shannon), sem poder sair de casa nem receber visitas. As coisas começam a mudar quando a jovem Maryann (Natasha Calis) se muda para a vizinhança e se torna amiga dele em segredo. Em uma das tentativas de se esconder da mãe de Andy, Maryann descobre no porão um segredo terrível que pode mudar a vida de toda a família.
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Alice attempts to umpire a big league baseball game where the animals begin to take exception to her bad calls.
A unique insight into Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver - a reclusive icon and his relationship with New York City.
Diane dirige seu caminhão pelas estradas sem problemas. Mas sua vida tranquila e sem preocupações acaba de uma hora para outra, quando precisa cuidar de seu filho de 11 anos enquanto o pai está no hospital. Agora, a necessidade de exercer o papel de mãe acaba fazendo-a repensar a própria vida.
In the late 80's/early 90's North America's favorite pastime was collecting baseball cards. People would invest millions, in this game of pirates treasure, by putting their mint condition gold in plastic sleeves, locking it away and hoping it's value would continue to rise year after year. Unfortunately, this house of cards would soon collapse, leaving the pieces of cardboard along with the hopes and dreams of fathers and sons worthless. Stu Stone was one of those sons, and his relationship with his father Jack, who was in the card business, would crumble with the industry. 25 years later, Stu is on a mission to discover why his beloved baseball cards are worth nothing more than the memories they hold of a happy childhood. What he didn't plan on finding though, was the most elusive card of them all, his father Jack.
A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his father, spends five years on ball fields in inner city Oakland and Havana, following the lives of two extraordinary youth baseball coaches, Roscoe in Oakland and Nicolas in Havana. The coaches meet on videotape and two years of red tape later, Coach Roscoe and nine Oakland players travel to Havana to play Coach Nicolas' team. For one week, the players and coaches eat, dance, swim, argue and play baseball together. But when the parent of an Oakland player is murdered back home, it brings back the inescapable reality and challenges of life in an American inner city.