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The Final Season is a 2007 baseball film starring Sean Astin, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tom Arnold, Powers Boothe, Larry Miller, Brett Claywell, Michael Angarano, and Marshall Bell and directed by David Mickey Evans.
Wilver Dornell Stargell (March 6, 1940 – April 9, 2001), nicknamed "Pops" later in his career, was an American professional baseball left fielder and first baseman who spent all of his 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1962–1982) with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Among the most feared power hitters in baseball history, Stargell had the ...
A bio-pic of sorts starring professional baseball player Mike Donlin: Casey at the Bat: 1916 Drama A lost five-reeler based on Ernest Thayer's poem and starring DeWolf Hopper: Somewhere in Georgia: 1917 Drama Ty Cobb as a ball-playing bank clerk in a story by Grantland Rice. Baseball Madness: 1917 Comedy A silent film starring Gloria Swanson ...
Designer of the MLB Logo: While working at a New York design firm in 1968, Dior created the silhouette of a batter that has become synonymous with Major League Baseball.
On August 28, 2012, Major League Baseball and ESPN agreed to an eight-year, $5.6 billion contract extension, the largest broadcasting deal in Major League Baseball history. It gave ESPN the rights to up to 90 regular-season games, alternating rights to one of the two Wild Card games (between American League and National League teams) each year ...
Fear Strikes Out is a 1957 American biographical sports drama film depicting the life and career of American baseball All-Star player Jimmy Piersall.It is based on Piersall's 1955 memoir Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story, co-written with Al Hirshberg.
The best player in the game steps to an even bigger stage in Chavez Ravine, making this the most impactful free-agent move for an athlete in any sport since LeBron James signed with the ...
In September 2000, Major League Baseball signed a six-year, $2.5 billion contract with Fox [335] to televise Saturday afternoon regular-season baseball games, the All-Star Game and coverage of the Division Series, League Championship Series and World Series. 90% of the contract's value to Fox, which was paying the league $417 million per year ...