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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1946, Branch Rickey, ... owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball's infamous color line when he signed Jackie Robinson ... to the team. The deal put both men in the crosshairs of the public, the press and even other players. Facing unabashed racism from every side, Robinson was forced to demonstrate tremendous courage and let his talent on the field win over fans and his teammates"--Container.
2) The sandlot
Language
English
Formats
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...
4) Moneyball
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
�1997
Language
English
Description
In 1943, a washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war. Reluctant at first, he finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team. Based on a true story.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Morris Buttermaker is an alcoholic pest removal worker and for a very short period of time a former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over.
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Rickey Hill is the small-town son of a traveling pastor. With natural athletic talent, grit, and raw determination, Rickey defiantly overcomes his physical disabilities and father's overbearing commands to never play baseball to fulfill his dream of playing in the major leagues, and ultimately transform his connection with his father."--
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A tragic mistake lands nineteen-year-old baseball phenom Sonny Stano in jail before his burgeoning professional baseball career gets off the ground. Now, twenty years later and fresh out of prison, he works to win back his respect, his family, his lost love and his dream of being a professional baseball player.
10) Jackie Robinson
Publisher
marketed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Peter Graves reviews the life of Jackie Robinson, the American hero whose accomplishments went far beyond the ballpark and who personified a new definition of the phrase All-Star.
11) Undrafted
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story. When collegiate star John Mazetti is skipped over by the MLB draft, an intramural baseball game with misfit teammates suddenly becomes life changing.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When the cast is removed from his newly healed broken arm, clumsy 12-year-old Henry is shocked to find his arm has become a 100 mph fastball. His throw from the bleachers directly to home plate alerts the last place Chicago Cubs and before you know it, he is signed as their new ace pitcher. With a few pointers from an aging star pitcher, young Henry actually manages to pull off the impossible.
13) Slow Moe
Publisher
Rekab Sudskany, L.C
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
An akward teenage boy's dream comes true when he finds a mysterious pair of glasses that turns him into the greatest baseball player his town has ever seen. He quickly learns that winning doesn't mean anything if you can't be proud of how you play the game.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jessica's life is comprised of her diner, her friends, her son, and his baseball practice. When her high school sweetheart Chase, famed baseball player whose bad play pauses his career, returns to town to be the new Little League coach, Jessica finds she still has feelings for him.
15) Fences
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
17) Bull Durham
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A love triangle surrounds members of a minor league baseball team and its unofficial "handler."
18) Fastball
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hank Aaron and Derek Jeter, with Kevin Costner narrating, lead a cast of baseball legends and scientists who explore the magic within the 396 milliseconds it takes a fastball to reach home plate, and decipher who threw the fastest pitch ever. --Container.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Sandlot: It's the early 1960's and 5th grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his folks. Kids call him a dork because he can't even throw a baseball. But that changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded beast and its owner who live behind the left field...
20) Curveball
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Smart, popular and star pitcher of his high school team, Nolan tries to put his troubled childhood behind him with the help of the two things he could always depend on: his love of baseball and his best friend, Sam. But now that Nolan's future is looking bright and he's happy with a new girlfriend, Sam starts leading him into trouble, playing hard and partying harder.