After dedicating the season to a teammate’s ailing father, a group of underestimated Ft. Worth youth baseball players takes its Cinderella run all the way to the 2002 Little League World Series—culminating in a record-breaking showdown that became an instant ESPN classic.
Matthau es un antiguo jugador profesional de béisbol, famoso por su mal humor, que se hace cargo de un equipo juvenil. Su intención es conseguir el título, pero, para ello, tienen que empezar por ganar su primer partido.
Una abogada con aspecto de mojigata (Marcia Gay Harden) convence al ex jugador profesional Morris Buttermaker (Billy Bob Thornton), famoso por su afición al alcohol y sus malos modos, para que entrene a los Bears, un equipo juvenil de béisbol formado por unos chicos especialmente ineptos. El reto consiste en motivar a doce inadaptados para que derroten al odiado equipo rival, los Yankees, y de paso, a su insoportable entrenador (Greg Kinnear). Remake del film homónimo protagonizado por Walter Matthau en 1976. (FILMAFFINITY)
Un atribulado y rebelde adolescente conduce a su equipo de béisbol hacia a Houston donde jugarán un partido de exhibición. Ahí el chico se encuentra con su padre, que está separado de su madre, y lo contrata como entrenador de su equipo.
En esta tercera (y última) entrega de la popular franquicia cinematográfica, Tony Curtis interpreta a Marvin Lazar, un cómplice, el promotor de poca monta que ve una oportunidad de hacer dinero en un club de béisbol. Después de que Lazar llega a un acuerdo con el equipo, todos van a Asia para competir con los campeones japoneses.
Chuck es un niño que un día visita con su clase el silo nuclear de su pueblo. Vuelve tan conmocionado por el potencial destructivo de lo que acaba de ver, que decide no jugar al béisbol hasta que las armas nucleares sean eliminadas. Muy pronto, a su protesta empiezan a adherirse otras personas, de modo que los líderes mundiales no tendrán más remedio que prestar atención a las demandas del chico.
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.
"All-Stars" is a hilarious commentary on the state of all youth sports today, fueled by the outrageous behavior of the desperate sports parent living vicariously through his or her child. In the vein of "Best in Show", where it's more about the dog owners than the dogs - "All-Stars" is about the adults involved in youth sports (parents, coaches, umpires, volunteers, board members, etc.) more than the kids. The end result is a funny, yet compelling spin on fast pitch softball as well as a unique state of affairs on the outlandish antics of a few crazed parents.
A down-on-his-luck bookie befriends an ex-girlfriend’s son and gets the bright idea to take bets on his youth league baseball games; only to realize he’s killed what’s pure about the sport as the games turn ugly when money is on the line.
When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
Después de aceptar un trabajo como director de un equipo de ligas pequeñas, un vagabundo inspira a los niños a alcanzarlo todo y ellos lo inspiran a recuperar su vida.
In 1982, Cody Webster and a small group of friends from Kirkland, Washington, sat anxiously in a dugout waiting to take the field for the championship game of the Little League World Series. Their focus was just about what you’d expect from any 12-year-old: hit the ball, throw strikes, cross your fingers and then maybe – maybe – you’ll win. Adults in the stands and watching from home saw a much broader field of play. The memories of American hostages and a crippling oil crisis were still fresh; the economic malaise of the late 1970s still lingered; and the new President was recovering from an assassination attempt even while confronting new threats from the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, back on that tiny baseball field in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, no American team had won a true international Little League World Series Championship in more than a decade. When the Kirkland players rushed from their dugout that day, they stepped onto a much bigger field than the one they saw.
Dying doctor Jonathan Lyle's last wish is granted, to be young again and play baseball, but only for five days.
Since Little League Baseball was founded in 1939, about 40 million kids have played the sport. The list includes future Hall of Famers like Carl Yastrzemski, Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan, and hundreds of other future Major Leaguers. But of all the kids who ever played Little League, the best of the best was a boy you’ve probably never heard of: Art “Pinky” Deras. In the summer of 1959, he led the team from Hamtramck, Mich., to the Little League World Series title, and in the process, he put together a Little League season the likes of which we might never see again. His amazing story comes to life in “The Legend of Pinky Deras: The Greatest Little-Leaguer There Ever Was,” a new film from Blue Hammer Films. Pinky received a ton of national publicity back in 1959, but then he fell off the map. In the half-century since he lit the Little League world on fire, there have been no films about him, no magazine stories, not even a single newspaper article.