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1) The rookie
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Small-time baseball coach promises his team that if they win the championships he will try out for major league baseball.
3) Moneyball
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Tells how the Oakland Athletics general manager, Billy Beane, tried to use statistics to find better players without resorting to the larger budgets big-market teams were able to employ.
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After suffering a career-ending knee injury, pro-baseball superstar Jimmy Easton (Dave Stone) returns to a place he has not been in a very long time -- home. Here, Jimmy confronts dark memories from a tragic past as he tries to make peace with a life he once left behind. Things take an unexpected turn when he is forced back into the world of baseball as the coach of an underachieving college team. Coach Jimmy's rocky relationship with Brandon Elliot...
8) Home run
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Baseball all-star Cory Brand knows what it takes to win in the big leagues. But off the field, with memories of his past haunting him, his life is spiraling out of control. With an unexpected second chance, Cory finds himself on a powerful journey of transformation and redemption. Based on thousands of true stories, Home Run is a powerful reminder that with God, it's never too late . . . freedom is possible." -- container
10) Mr. 3000
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A fourty-seven year old ex-baseball star called Mr. 3000 realizes his stats weren't quite as high as he had thought and tries to make a come back to remedy the fact.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
An uplifting film about a legendary baseball player's struggle to choose between the love of his life and his love of the game. In the film, baseball fanatic Joe Soshack finds a Honus Wagner card that magically takes him back to the 1909 World Series.
12) The sandlot
Language
English
Description
The sandlot: In the early 1960s newcomer Scotty Smalls becomes part of a sandlot baseball team whose members share adventures, first kisses, and encounters with the dreaded beast and its owner who live behind the left field fence.
The sandlot 2: Ten years after the original story a new team tries to retrieve an irreplaceable model rocket that lands in Mr. Mertle's backyard behind left field.
The sandlot: heading home: An arrogant pro baseball player...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The Cubs aren't having a good season until 12-year-old Henry Rowengartner breaks his arm in his Little League game. When he recovers he is astonished to discover he can throw the ball 100 mph and the Cubs sign him to save their failing team.
14) A little inside
Publisher
Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Ed Mills, a promising baseball player on the verge of stardom sees his dream shattered when he becomes a single parent. Five years later, he is a small-town mechanic, trying his best to raise his 7-year-old daughter Abby.
15) Touching home
Publisher
Distributed by ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Lane and Clint Winston, twin brothers from a working-class background, pursue professional baseball careers while trying to save their homeless, alcoholic father Charlie. A coming-of-age drama, an account of overcoming enormous odds, and a tale about family and the bonds that matter.
16) Where hope grows
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Former pro baseball player Calvin Campbell's faith in God is restored when he meets Produce, an inspirational man with Down syndrome. As their friendship develops, Calvin is reminded that hope grows in the most unlikely places.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"When widowed attorney Tripp Spence finds himself wanted by the IRS, he and his young pitching sensation son Derrick change their appearance, assume new identies and flee to Las Vegas. Here Derrick becomes "Mickey" and Tripp enrolls him in a second final year of Little League. But as the nation, the government and a nervous Tripp watch, "Mickey" leads his team from the city championship all the way to the controversial final game of the Little League...
18) The benchwarmers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Three guys spent their youth bearing the wrath of schoolyard bullies. They weren't tall, cool, and athletic, so they often got picked on by those who were. But when Gus convinces his two friends Richie and Clark to take some batting practice on a nearby Little League baseball field for old times sake, the three end up challenging a team of eleven-year-olds for the right to play on the field. Gus, often picked on because he was short, is nonetheless...
20) Twelve
Publisher
Scarlet Sky Productions
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Follow the inspiring story of Kyle Cooke an eleven- year-old baseball player who, after moving to a new town and being unjustly cut from its all-star team, stops at nothing to make it to the World Series the following year. Kyles father, realizing his son may never get a chance to pursue his dream, finagles a way to get Kyle on a team in an opposing district. Understanding this is his one and only shot, he uses the rejection as motivation to become...
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