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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised nationwide competition called "Million dollar arm" where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the boys learn the game, they teach JB the meaning of teamwork...
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"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months...
4) Fastball
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Baseball legends and scientists discuss the fastball and try to determine who threw the fastest pitch ever.
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"One tiny ligament in the elbow keeps snapping and sending teenagers and major leaguers alike to undergo surgery, an issue the baseball establishment ignored for decades. For three years, Jeff Passan, the lead baseball columnist for Yahoo Sports, has traveled the world to better understand the mechanics of the arm and its place in the sport?s past, present, and future. He got the inside story of how the Chicago Cubs decided to spend $155 million on...
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Boxcar children volume 122
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The Aldens help out at a minor league stadium and investigate when it appears someone in the ballpark is stealing the home team pitcher's signals and relaying them to the batters of the other team.
7) Sugar
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league system at the tender age of 19, Miguel is warmly welcomed...
8) The rookie
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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...
9) Tim Lincecum
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Presents the life and career of Timothy Lincecum, the baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, and his many accomplishments.
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Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c1973
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unlikely friendship ignites between two baseball players. One is the team's ace pitcher and social charmer; the other is the catcher, a farm boy from Georgia who lacks sophistication. During their last season together, the two men grow in manhood and respect for themselves and each other.
11) The rookie
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kenny Powers is a former Major League pitcher who used to have it all: fame, endorsements, and a lucrative contract. Now, after hard living has taken its toll on his fastball, Kenny finds himself crashing with his brother's family and teaching gym class at the same North Carolina middle school where he once attended. Wherever he goes, Kenny wreaks havoc with his boorish behavior, all the while plotting his triumphant return to the big leagues.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The second season of its outrageous, irreverent half-hour, hit comedy series about an arrogant, burned-out, former major-league pitcher named Kenny Powers. In Season 2, Kenny will take up residence in a small Mexican town; there, joined by his lackey Stevie Janowski and a new love interest, Vida, he'll fashion a comeback scenario that involves a local baseball team, the Charros, and its filthy-rich owner, Sebastian Cisneros. Special features included....
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Gabby Garcia's ultimate playbook volume 1
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When her school is shut down due to an asbestos problem, all-star pitcher Gabby Garcia is sent to an upscale private school that already has a star pitcher, and to make matters worse, she has trouble making friends and finding her place.
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Relief pitcher/private investigator Johnny Adcock doesn't have an office; he has the bullpen. That's where he sits shelling sunflower seeds when in walks a femme-fatale blonde claiming to be a TV reporter. She is Tiff Tate, the highly-paid stylist responsible for half the looks in Major League Baseball, from Brian Wilson's beard to Big Papi's gold ropes. Tiff has a problem. Yonel Ruiz-the rookie phenom who infamously escaped from Cuba by surviving...
19) MVP summer
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Series
Gabby Garcia's ultimate playbook volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
When Gabby's best friend Diego returns from Costa Rica for the summer, she discovers their once-solid friendship is starting to unravel.
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