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Bobby Ratliff and his best friend, lawyer Jon Kelly, co-coach a Little League Baseball team in Fort Worth, Texas, which their sons play on. The team is struggling and most of the players have little interest in the sport, wanting to get the season over with. While helping his son Robert practice, Bobby suddenly collapses.
The Perfect Game is a 2009 American drama film directed by William Dear, based on the 2008 book of the same name written by W. William Winokur. [1] The film is based on the events leading to the 1957 Little League World Series, which was won by the first team from outside the United States, the Industrial Little League of Monterrey, Mexico, who defeated the heavily favored U.S. team. [2 ...
The Little League baseball team's journey made its way to the big screen when Kelly shared their story with the producer of the movie nearly two decades after the events took place.
Explores Michael Jordan's brief career in minor league baseball after his first retirement from basketball. Little Big Men: 2010 Documentary Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. On a Kirkland National Little League team's stunning victory in 1982 Little League World Series, and players' lives in the decades that followed. Silly ...
The film, out now, is based on the true story of the 2002 Westside team that dedicated its season to a teammate’s dying father and subsequently reached the Little League World Series. First ...
During their 2002 Little League World Series run, the Fort Worth team faced elimination 11 times and won every game. But in the semifinals, Fort Worth lost 2-1 to a team from Kentucky in 11 innings.
Little Big League is a 1994 American family sports film about a 12-year-old who suddenly becomes the owner and then manager of the Minnesota Twins baseball team. It stars Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield, and Ashley Crow. The film is director Andrew Scheinman's first and only feature film directorial project.
Mickey was filmed in 2004, at baseball fields in Colonial Heights, Richmond, and Petersburg, Virginia, and also South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, home of baseball's Little League World Series (LLWS). Grisham played Little League in his home state of Mississippi.