John "Hans" Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for baseball's New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22-year-old hopefuls to pick the best for a minor league contract. All have dreams and talent, but the elimination whittles them down to a lucky few who will get the $150-a-month contract.
In a small New York town called Willow Falls, a new manager is needed for the Panthers, a local Little League baseball team. Bruce Hallerton, a lawyer by trade, volunteers for the job, deciding it would be a way to spend more time with his son, Dennis.
Artie DeVanzo est un chômeur passé maître dans l'art de la fainéantise. Un jour, il se met en tête de perfectionner le jeu de son équipe de softball pour vaincre les champions locaux.
The movie documents the 2003 season of the Boston Red Sox, beginning with their annual spring training and culminating at the American League Championship Series. The documentary also looks into the team's fandom, as well as the team's interactions with their fans.
Dans la petite station balnéaire de Galveston, un tueur massacre les jeunes femmes blondes. L'inspecteur Mike Seaver mène l'enquête, mais le seul indice dont il dispose est que chaque crime semble correspondre aux victoires de l'équipe de base-ball des Astros de Houston
Alors qu’il est sur le point de perdre son travail, le recruteur Virgil Sweet découvre un talentueux mais inexpérimenté joueur de baseball, le jeune Sammy Bodeen. Virgil est alors tiraillé entre les propriétaires d’équipes qui ne pensent qu’à l’argent et Sammy qui désire seulement pratiquer son sport.
Tripp Spence (Harry Connick, Jr.) is a widowed Maryland-based lawyer who becomes the focus of an intensive IRS investigation regarding false bankruptcy claims he filed during his wife's fatal illness. Realizing his case against the inevitable criminal charges is hopeless, he takes his 13-year-old son Derrick (Shawn Salinas), who loves playing Little League baseball and is competing in his final year of eligibility due to age restrictions, and flees from the investigation, moving out west to Las Vegas, Nevada. Through a corporate connection, Tripp acquires new identities for the two of them, with Tripp becoming Glen Simon Ryan and Derrick becoming Michael "Mickey" Jacob Ryan, whose fictional backstory is that they recently moved into town from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Joshua Beal (Joseph Cross), dit Josh, étudie à la Weldron Mercy Academy, une école catholique privée réservée aux garçons. Après la mort de son grand-père (Robert Loggia) et malgré les dires de ses proches, Josh se convainc qu'il doit trouver Dieu. Pour réussir sa mission, il est aidé par Dave, un de ses meilleurs amis.
Lors de la série mondiale 1986, la série finale des Ligues majeures de baseball américain, un dramaturge fuit la première de sa nouvelle pièce de théâtre pour ne pas rater le sixième match qui oppose les Mets de New York et les Red Sox de Boston.
Souffrant d'amnésie après un choc à la tête, un homme se rend à un congrès, en compagnie de son amour de jeunesse et de son oncle atteint de la maladie d'alzheimer. Ensemble, ils élaborent un plan pour vendre une carte de baseball rarissime...
Sixteen-year-old Cole McKay’s struggle for independence is put to the test as his South Boston Irish-Catholic family implodes around him. Older brother Terry is descending into a life of drugs and crime, pregnant sister Kathleen is being sent away to cover up the shame of unwed motherhood and Cole’s father, Desmond, spends his days in a fog of alcohol and self-pity, silently torturing himself over what might have been. The one thing keeping young Cole’s head above water is his love of baseball. The movie starts with Cole practicing his pitching, when he is picked up by his family to attend the funeral of Desmond's sister. A talented baseball pitcher, Cole overcomes self-doubt and family indifference to fight his way into the state championships. To get there however, he must make a life and death decision, one that will change the McKay family forever.
Une star du championnat de baseball universitaire voit ses rêves se briser lorsqu'il n'est pas sélectionné pour rejoindre la Ligue majeure. Avec l'aide de ses coéquipiers un brin marginaux, il va tenter de donner un nouveau sens à sa vie et à son amour du baseball.
Frank X. Farrell, joueur de baseball, est surnommé « Alibi Ike », en raison de son penchant à trouver des excuses pour tout. Farrell est amoureux de Dolly Stevens. Appelé pour aider le Cubs de Chicago à gagner le championnat de baseball, Farrell va être enlevé par des gangsters pour l'empêcher de jouer.
The movie begins in 1906 at the Baltimore Waterfront, where 11-year-old George Herman Ruth, Jr. is taken away by Brother Matthias from George's abusive father to St. Mary's. When George is 18, his incredible baseball talent gets him hired to play for the Baltimore Orioles, and during the interview, he gets his "Babe" nickname. Babe becomes a successful baseball player, and is soon sold off to play for the Boston Red Sox. After a bad game, Babe wonders what went wrong at a bar, until he is helped by Claire Hogsdon that when he pitches he sticks out his tongue. He continues his success, landing a new $100,000 contract; he finds Claire, but she gives him the cold shoulder. During one game, Denny, a sick paralyzed child, watches with his father Babe Ruth play; when Babe says "hiya kid" to the kid, he miraculously "uncripples" and gets up. Babe soon becomes a player for the New York Yankees; during one game, he accidentally hurts a dog, and decides to take the dog and the little kid owner to the hospital. After arguing with the doctors that a dog is the same as a human, the dog is healed; but because Babe left a game to do this, he gets suspended from the Yankees. A depressed Babe Ruth finds himself at a bar, and amidst the crowd giving off negative vibes, he starts a fight and gets arrested. Soon, he decides to play Santa Claus at a Children's Hospital, where he runs into Claire again, visiting her nephew. She tells him that his actions affect the children of America, and Babe decides to keep that in mind. Miller Huggins, the same man who suspended Babe, fights to bring him back to the Yankees as the team has had a bad season. Babe is soon brought back, and the team wins the World Series thanks to him; with this, he and Claire get married, but soon after, Huggins dies from pyaemia. During Game 3 of the 1932 World Series, Babe gets a call from the father of a dying child, and promises him that when he goes off to bat, he will call the third shot and the ball will land at a certain spot; all of this will be for the boy. During the game, Babe does exactly that, and the boy hears the news and starts to get better. Babe retires from the Yankees at the age of 41, and takes a management position with the Boston Braves, even though they want him to play in the games despite his age. During one game, Babe gets stressed out and can't continue playing, and retires from baseball after that game. Sadly, this means he goes off contract by retiring during his time with the Braves, and is fired from anything related to baseball. Later, Babe complains of neck pain, and soon learns that he is dying of throat cancer. The news of this leads fans to send letters telling Babe that they care. The doctors decide to try a treatment on Babe with a chance that he'll survive; as Babe is taken to surgery, the narrator give words of encouragement to baseball fans, crediting Babe Ruth for America's love of the sport.