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Pub. Date
[2020], p[2018]
Language
English
Description
A team of nice Jewish baseball players takes on the world. It is the David-and-Goliath story of Israel's national baseball team as it competes for the first time in the World Baseball Classic. After years of crushing defeats, Israel finally ranks among the world's best in 2017. Its roster includes many Jewish-American major leaguers, most with a tenuous relationship to Judaism, barely any ever having set foot in Israel.
3) Fastball
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.
4) The league
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball's triumphs and challenges through the first half of the 20th century, exploring Black baseball as an economic and social pillar of Black communities, and a showcase for some of the greatest athletes to ever play the game, while exposing unintended consequences of the sport's integration.
5) Faded glory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The true story of a group of aging athletes, good friends for over 18 years, who never gave up on the dream of playing baseball at a competitive level. Through the eyes of their manager Rick Cohen, Faded Glory follows the National Network team, 18 men over the age of 35 who have overcome adversities, including injury, divorce, bankruptcy, infidelity, drug addiction, incarceration and one life-threatening disease. It all takes place as they battle...
7) Facing Nolan
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the world of Major League Baseball no one has created a mythology like Nolan Ryan. Told from the point of view of the hitters who faced him and the teammates who revered him, this is the definitive documentary of a Texas legend." --
9) Babe Ruth
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Explores the life of the famous baseball player.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An entertaining and heartfelt look at the ties of hope, faith, and optimism that bind Cubs fans together. Also offers unique insight into what it means to be a true Cubs fans by exploring how deeply the histories of the city of Chicago and its Cubs are intertwined. Featuring interviews with an all-star cast of Cubs fans, Cubs legends, and experts, and remarkable historical images, including dozens of rare and never-before-seen photos from the earliest...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Chillicothe Paints are part of the Frontier League and are the featured team in the movie. Begins during preseason tryouts and follows the team until the last pitch in September. Go everywhere with the team - road trips, practices, games, homes, dugouts, locker rooms. Bases where touched with owners, general managers, managers, players, coaches, fans, radio broadcasters, host families, etc. There is so much that goes on behind the scenes in a...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
On the evening of September 11, 1985, before a sellout crowd of 52,000 at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Pete Rose stood on the edge of history. With one swing he would collect more hits than anyone in the history of the game he loved. It is a story that began in 1963 when Rose ran to first base on a walk. It spanned more than two decades and brought numerous individual awards as well as three World Series titles. But there is more to this story...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From the dirt-poor alleys of Anderson, Indiana, to a storied career with the Brooklyn Dodgers fabled "Boys of Summer," Carl Erskine lived the American Dream--and spent his lifetime giving to others. Through his support of lifelong best friend Johnny Wilson and then Jackie Robinson--"No Dodger, none, understood more about what was going on (racially) than Carl did," Robinson said--followed by his 60-year advocacy for people with intellectual disabilities...
Series
30 for 30 volume no. 18
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After leading the Dream Team to Olympic Gold and taking the Chicago Bulls to their third consecutive NBA championship, Michael Jordan walked away from the game of basketball. Jolted by the tragic loss of his father, Jordan decided to pursue a lifelong ambition and play baseball. His brief career in the minor leagues was subject to intense media scrutiny and ridicule, but those who knew him best understood his need to honor his father by fulfilling...
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