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Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

skelly-26 Luke Edwards is incredible as Billy Heywood. I cannot believe how many people don't know about this movie. It has a bit of everything and has some big laughs as well as a very touching and a story the general audience can relate to. You don't have to be into baseball to like the movie! Bowers is hilarious as the relief pitcher and the road trip sequence in the hotel is also unreal. I loved the riddle in the movie too, "A cowboy rides into town on Friday, leaves three days later on Friday, how did he do it?" If you haven't seen this movie do so. If you love baseball this is an absolute must...(you can stop reading now the rest is filler to get to 10 lines) It's also cool how the first basemen is from Field of Dreams, a good movie but not half as good as this one. Rookie of the year was alright, and the Sandlot is another classic of our time. We have not had a really great baseball movie in a long time...

ccthemovieman-1 I thought this was a perfectly nice family film and almost canned it after the first 15 minutes, but I was glad I didn't because it turned to be a good movie.The first 15 minutes including two GDs by Dennis Farina and some uncalled-for vulgarity by Jason Robards, but everything settled down after those two exited the film soon after and it wound up being a "cute" baseball movie and very impressive in its realism. The last comment about "realism" was the most impressive aspect of the film to me. I had grown up seeing every baseball movie and never seeing any actors who knew what they were doing until Kevin Costner came along with his "Field Of Dreams" (and later with "For Love Of The Game"). So I appreciate the more modern-era of movie-making where at least we see actors who can throw and hit. This movie is about as close to seeing real baseball as you're going to get: very realistic diamond action. The story was outlandish - an 11-year-old managing a Major League baseball team, but the baseball was so good and a good mix of comedy and drama made it turn out to be a satisfying film to watch. There are some nice shots of Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium in here, too.Luke Edwards, as the kid, was just fine and a kid you could root for, not a wise- guy. He was aided by adults John Ashton and Timothy Busfeld. This is a nicer role for Ashton ("Midnight Run") and Busfeld, couldn't have played a more likable ballplayer. He was great to watch.This a good film for adults, not just kids, and especially if you enjoy baseball.

kwittet My 2 year old son loves this movie. He sits and watches it over and over all day long. I like the movie also even though I am a hockey fan and have not really followed baseball all the much. Here it is 2006 and I am just seeing this movie for the first time. I noticed that near the end of the movie in the playoff game that when Ken Griffey Jr steps up to the plate that in the back ground there is a large Canadian flag hanging in the stadium. So i checked the credits and it shows nothing about any Canadian filming locations. I was thinking that this had something to do with the Toronto BLue Jays winning the previous 2 world series (1992 & 1993) Thanks

Bungle-9 I've been watching quite a few baseball films recently, and I think I'm getting obsessed. I quite liked this, perhaps improbable, look at the management of modern baseball teams. It reminds us of the fact that there's too much money involved in sports nowadays, and that's not the way it should be. The bluesy music was great, and the film boast's a couple of appearances from several of the New York Yankees, Ken Griffey Jnr. being one of them. Good show.