Virgil Custard leads Vickburg, Mississippi's black baseball team through assorted farcical adventures.
Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie Savoy sets her sights on the two men.
The true-life drama about a handicapped Baltimore woman living on welfare who organized a sandlot baseball team and ended up coaching more than 50,000 boys and girls over nearly 40 years.
A boy, Chad, confined to a wheelchair, raises pigeons, and they are the therapy that he needs to walk again, when he forgets his own troubles to try to save his favorite pigeon.
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!
After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Cleveland Indians are determined to make it into the World Series this time! However, they first have to contend with Rachel Phelps again when she buys back the team.
This non-narrative short film examines one of the great American icons: the Louisville Slugger baseball bat. The film was conceived by its co-directors, Marlon Johnson and Dennis Scholl, along with the Louisville Orchestra's conductor, Teddy Abrams, to be screened set to a live performance by the orchestra of Claude Debussy's "Jeux".
A disturbed young man threatens violence at the World Series after failing to make the Houston Astros.
An experimental pixelated collage of highlights from the Toronto Blue Jays' 1993 World Series victory, set to ambient tunes released the same calendar year.
Celebrate the life of baseball’s most enduring legend; Satchel Paige was the single most important player in the old Negro Baseball Leagues
A serial of short instructional films using footage of Babe Ruth to explain the fundamentals of playing baseball.
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In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
Laugh at hilarious bloopers and funny moments with sports greats like All-Pro quarterback Troy Aikman, baseball legend Tom Seaver, basketball megastar Charles Barkley, and World Series hero Joe Carter. Best of all, hosted by one of the biggest stars in the world-Santa Claus! From crazy Christmas trees to sly skiing tricks to baseball's spring training in Florida with the Toronto Blue Jays, these wild and wacky clips bring lots of holiday cheer and enjoyment. Includes classic holiday music such as "Jingle Bells" and "Twelve Days of Christmas." The whole family will enjoy this stocking stuffer all year 'round!
Super Sports Follies has been on television for 6 years running. During those 6 years, thousands of funny moments have been featured on the show. And now you can see the best of these moments in this 30 minute video. You'll see the funniest sports moments ever captured on camera. The bloopers. The foul-ups. The pranks. The misplays. From sports of all sorts come the wierdest, the wackiest happenings. Super laughs and superstars. The best of TV's Super Sports Follies is captured in FOLLY.
An unemployed slacker inspires his softball teammates to improve their game to avoid getting kicked out of the local league.
Combine some of the wackiest bloopers ever collected, edited to country music, and you've just hit the right chord for one hour of solid, toe-tapping laughter. Humorous zanies from baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey, skiing, rodeo and more-sure to entertain over and over. It's the kind of fun that everybody just has to see and share with others. It's all here. Sports Bloopers with a new song and dance!
In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a player who got angry at the indecisive judge, knocked the referee down. Tagami lived with his wife and five children, but when he returned home, Hara, who had been suspended for a month, wanted to receive Tagami's Subaruta training.
Trying to find his own game of baseball, and not that of his brothers, Tatsuya moves to America and pitches for a poor, struggling minor league baseball team called the Emeralds. Meanwhile, Minami is still in Japan, trying to find her own path after quitting gymnastics. Inspired by a photograph of her final performance, she becomes the photographers assistant.
The Indians and Yankees, both in a tight race with the White Sox, met at the Polo Grounds on August 16th, 1920. In the fifth inning, Carl Mays threw one of his "submarine" pitches that hit Ray Chapman in the head. Chapman collapsed at the plate. He was rushed to the hospital and died the next day, the only Major League Baseball player ever to be killed in a game. Grief tore through Cleveland and the pivotal moment led to an explosion on and off the field. The Indians, sparked by the addition of young shortstop Joe Sewell, recovered in time to win their first World Series Title. What resulted was a rivalry that would last 100 years.