Frank Valdez, a former Dominican baseball player, was pursuing a spot to the Major League Baseball (MLB) while he was shaping his skills in the Minor Leagues. Unfortunately, he encountered both professional and personal setbacks. However, life gave him another chance. He created an academy where he trains professional baseball players, as well teenagers and kids who are pursuing the same path as he used to. Frank not only narrates his love and passion for baseball, but how resilience became his best friend.
The initiation journey of a boy who must leave his childhood behind and become a man in order to keep his family together.
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
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.
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
A disturbed young man threatens violence at the World Series after failing to make the Houston Astros.
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big, he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight, but he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups, including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
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!
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.
Dodd, a freshly signed baseball player struggling to say goodbye to his hometown, spends his final night trying to reconnect with an old lover.
A young man roams the streets of Caracas.
When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer climate—but only a losing season will make that possible, which should be easy given the misfits she's hired. Rachel is sure her dream will come true, but she underestimates their will to succeed.
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.
At the behest of Roger Dorn -- the Minnesota Twins' silver-tongued new owner -- washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as skipper of the club's hapless farm team. But little does he know that Dorn has an ulterior motive to generate publicity with a grudge match between the big leaguers and their ragtag Triple A affiliate.
A girl baseball player who is about to graduate from high school will try to enter the professional baseball world forbidden to women.
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.
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!