A former baseball minor-leaguer coaches a team of tough kids. His star pitcher is a girl.

When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up to his end of the deal. While there prove to be a lot...

Hardball: A down-on-his-luck gambler finds himself in debt to a dangerous loan shark. Desperate for cash, he reluctanly takes on the job of coaching a youth baseball team. The team turns out to be a ragtag group of tough-talking kids from Chicago's inner city. Now, as he must wrestle with his past, the kids start to teach him some lessons that will forever change his future. The bad news Bears: A former minor-league pitcher gets roped into coaching...