The Vault
Major League: Back to the Minors
1998 ★ 5.0At the behest of Roger Dorn -- the Minnesota Twins' silver-tongued new owner -- washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as
Beer League
2006 ★ 5.1An unemployed slacker inspires his softball teammates to improve their game to avoid getting kicked out of the local league. Task: Write a factual, original 150
The Jackie Robinson Story
1950 ★ 6.3Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues. Th
Bad News Bears
2005 ★ 5.8Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for h
The Rookie
2002 ★ 6.8Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school c
Rookie of the Year
1993 ★ 6.212-year-old Henry Rowengartner, whose late father was a minor league baseball player, grew up dreaming of playing baseball, despite his physical shortcomings. A
The Bad News Bears
1976 ★ 6.9An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league. Family Comedy comedy drama family underd
50 Summers
2018 ★ 6.2Follow the evolution of Minor League Baseball over the last half-century as the Omaha Storm Chasers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals, kick off
Sugar
2008 ★ 6.6Like many young men in the Dominican Republic, 19-year-old Miguel "Sugar" Santos dreams of winning a slot on an American baseball team. Indeed, his talents as a
Long Gone
1987 ★ 6.1Story of the Tampico Stogies, a low minor-league baseball team, and its star player and manager, Stud' Cantrell, as they battle for the league championship amid
Bull Durham
1988 ★ 6.6Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets o
Brewster's Millions
1985 ★ 6.6Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to sh
Stealing Home
1988 ★ 6.3Billy Wyatt, a former high school and minor-league baseball player, receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later
Ball Four
1976 ★ 7.0Ball Four is a 1976 American situation comedy that aired on CBS in 1976. The series is inspired by the 1970 book of the same name by Jim Bouton. Bouton co-creat
Bing Russell
Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood acto
Big Leaguer
1953 ★ 7.3John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22 year old hopefuls to pick the best for a minor league co
Ron Shelton
Ron Shelton is a U.S. film director and screenwriter. He was born on September 15, 1945, in Whittier, California. Shelton attended Santa Barbara High School, th
Jim Metzler
Jim Metzler is an American television and film actor born on June 23, 1951, in Oneonta, New York. After graduating from Dartmouth College, his former jobs inclu